computer from a chain smoker

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The other day I had a chance to pick up an old Amiga 2000 computer.
Yep I had one years ago and still have a ton of stuff for it.

Anyway I got it home and looked at the color and man it looked dirty in that garage.
Well its yellow from cigarette smoke. I opened the case and even the motherboard and cards are coated with the stuff. I yellow tacky mess...

Is there anything that would clean this off the circuit boards without destroying them ?

simple green cleaned off the case pretty well. The keyboard was another matter.
The cleaner worked on it but the cable ends where it plugs into the case pitted.
 
If you need any parts let me know. I have 1.5 amiga 2000's in the garage.
I have an Amiga 3000T 040/25 that I bring out of the closet every now and then and play some clasic games with it.

there are electronics cleaners that may work on cleaning the mobo and cards.
 
well this one has a flicker fixer installed and 2 hd's a 40 and 20 M that are junkers
OF COURSE back then a 40 meg scsi drive cost $500 +

I am just sad about the board...(This is from memory ) the motherboard is a 4.2 which had 512K of onboard memory
the later 6.? had 1 meg onboard and were supposed to be better.

anyway I plugged in menace and it ran...man it takes forever to boot up a game off of floppies
 
In this thread, I would ask that you please NOT post some pics. :p

You can always try isopropyl alcohol, but it sounds like it won't help.
 
Steam cleaner and then let it dry for a few days. I bought a small steam cleaner from a place called XessCargo for only $25.00 CAD and it works pretty good at removing grime from all kinds of things. Might be too much pressure for mb and stuff though. I'm a smoker so know well how it can discolor light colored items. That's why I painted my old Antec beige case to gun metal grey.:)
 
The broken xbox360 I bought had the smell problem nothing I did got rid of the cigarette smell and every time I turn the damn thing on it smells like a stripclub.
 
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