removing smoke smell from old electronics

[M0BSW]

Green fairy washing liquid.......

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OK Sean we have that, I've just learn that the  Little Chef road side cafes are now own by Kuwait, I really don't think we own anything in England now. Green fairy is called Fairy liquid over here.

Given the amount of oil they use in frying stuff, I guess that's appropriate.

Nice one

[Spunky]

Yep and for the case and knobs and such - Simple Green.

What is simple Green , I've not seen anything called that in the UK.

I guess you don't have Google there either.

Anyway, how do you get rid of the smell of Simple Green?  I think I'd rather have the equipment smell like smoke.

Oh Yes we do, that's how the American government keep tabs on us see what we are doing over here, now all the bases with the spy planes have gone , and we have super fast broadband to  Google that's old school.

Nope, still got them. There's a base by me flying UAVs all over the place. Noisy buggers they are too.

[Stonent]

Yep and for the case and knobs and such - Simple Green.

What is simple Green , I've not seen anything called that in the UK.

I guess you don't have Google there either.

Anyway, how do you get rid of the smell of Simple Green?  I think I'd rather have the equipment smell like smoke.

And for those who haven't used it, Simple Green has sort of a strong licorice smell to it.

[peter.mitchell]

In a hot climate this may be slightly risky, though, as the heat may locally exceed what the components and synthetic materials can take for very long.

Really? If anything designed for day to day use can't stand say... 12-18 hours in direct sunlight at say 40 degrees celsius, it's probably FUBAR anyway.

[amyk]

Plastics are known to be attacked by the UV in sunlight.

[M0BSW]

Yep and for the case and knobs and such - Simple Green.

What is simple Green , I've not seen anything called that in the UK.

I guess you don't have Google there either.

Anyway, how do you get rid of the smell of Simple Green?  I think I'd rather have the equipment smell like smoke.

Oh Yes we do, that's how the American government keep tabs on us see what we are doing over here, now all the bases with the spy planes have gone , and we have super fast broadband to  Google that's old school.

Nope, still got them. There's a base by me flying UAVs all over the place. Noisy buggers they are too.

I think we only got Lakenheath now in east anglia, glad when Alconbury closed, the SR71's they were noisy buggers to,it was the A10's Warthog's , that scared everyone where I live, the buggers kept on falling out of the sky,and they flew around with live ammo, that was frightening to.

[dentaku]

Just to add to this old-ish post. I tried to remove the smoke smell from the enclosure of the B&K Precision 1472C but it's never going to go away SO this morning I tried to sand the paint off but it's too thick and soft.
I ended up using Circa 1850 paint remover and was able to pull the paint right off like a big sheet of rubber. Hopefully that will get rid of the smell.

I might paint it again in a nice blue similar to my Toyota A $40 15MHz scope isn't really worth the can of paint but it's still a fun experiment.

The plastic stuff cleaned up nicely enough with Mr. Clean Magic Erasers, Eco Green cleaner and Car Febreeze.

[robrenz]

And for those who haven't used it, Simple Green has sort of a strong licorice smell to it.

That is why I use Crystal Simple Green, same stuff without the overpowering smell and green color.

[KJDS]

Try using plastidip to give it a new coat

[dentaku]

I found a simple way to make it look nice without bothering with paint.
I took a palm sander with some 100C Aluminium Oxide paper and vigorously sanded the whole newly stripped and slightly scratched up enclosure so it's all shiny with a little random texture to it.

I wonder if it matters that now I've removed that non conductive rubbery paint?
I doubt it because there were exposed unpainted rivets all along the bottom.

[Stonent]

I seem to remember that RAF Lakenheath has the only Taco Bell in England and maybe Europe.

Edit: Nope, there's two in Essex and one in Manchester.

[LEECH666]

I find that washing with isoprop works the best for me to remove the dreaded smokeing smell.