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Its off and in the garage, it was a 2nd gen i5 so needed a rebuild at some point, 1 month till black friday sales

Damn I'm an idiot, but ah well these things happen.

I dont dare turn it on, it's an electrical fire waiting to happen

 

Brake cleaner will degrease it and should work.

 

I would use isopropanol as it should remove WD40, will evaporate completely and is completely safe to use on electronics.

 

WD40 was required on and inside the distributor cap in my first car, a 1976 Mini, or it would never start in damp weather. 20,000volts never set it on fire.

 

You may have trouble getting hold of that atm though. I know brake cleaner sounds really bad but a guy on YT uses it all the time. I mean in theory it's a degreaser and it evaporates quick.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Panel-Pr...111167?hash=item4212508fff:g:AA4AAOSwNThePZBW

That would work also.

 

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/electronics-cleaners/0567890/

I use this routinely for cleaning 'lectronics. Granted, I've never plastered a PCB in WD40, but I reckon it'd do a great job.

 

WD40 is non-conductive, so as others have said with some isopropyl alcohol and careful cleaning you should be ok. If you miss any tiny drops of it it shouldn't (note, shouldn't) cause any shorts. Might be a bit smelly when the system heats up though.

 

I've got a litre bottle of the stuff, cleans many things.

 

It'll stink the house out.

 

It does! I go through most of it cleaning the heated bed of the 3d printer

 

It's actually readily available at the moment. I bought a litre of 99.9% IPA from Amazon the other day for about a tenner.

 

Awesome because I have been cherishing mine.

 

Total first world problem and in no way on the same scale as squirting WD40 into a computer...

Gonna have to send back the awesome Sena bluetooth kit for my helmet...



It's a really awesome headset kit, but the problem is that this bit isn't compressible



meaning that it's a lot more uncomfortable to put on and take off. And not in a 'oo, that's a bit tighter' kind of way, it's more of a 'scrapes against the side of my face and tries to pull my ear off' sort of way.

 

@Byron C Shame although it's probably not worth going all Van Gogh in order to get some toons.

Plus then it'd probably be more mono.

 

Man, D-rings are so annoying. All the good helmets seem to insist on using them (as opposed to ratchet closures) and it's baffling.

 

We'll the ear in question has already been stitched back on once, so I'm not keen on having it done a second time... Or was it glued? No, the right one was surgically glued, the left one was stitched...


(It's not as bad as it sounds, it's only about an inch-long scar on the left, about half that on the right)

The ratchet fastener is soooo much easier with gloves on! I can't do double-D rings with any kind of gloves, not even lighter summer gloves.

 

Trying to see how talking about ears hanging off can sound anything other than 'as bad as it sounds'.

 

Less "hanging", more "flapping just a tiny bit"

 

yep, and it's all DOT, ECE yada yada compliant, so I really cannot understand why the big helmet makers still use a mishmash of closures across product lines when they could just standardise on ratchets and be done with it. All the good/comfortable lids I've tried use D rings and I'll be damned if I put money into an objectively crappier closure.

 

I can explain that!
FIA/FIM track rules insist on D-Ring buckles for helmets in competition, a lot of track days just follow along those rules too. It all goes back to a number of helmet failures in the 1980s where clip buckles broke in F1 and bike GP races. One of those failures was Gilles Villeneuve, whether it would have made any difference (or even if it was the buckle that failed) is debatable but his helmet yeeting off into the distance did him no favours. Since then ratchet buckles have obviously gotten better, but it seems there is no pressure from helmet companies or competitors to change the rules, so any helmet that 'might' be used on track has to have D rings or it can't be used.