[G4] milk spill on keyboard

[Alex]

On Jun 3, 2005, at 17:37, Doug McNutt wrote:

> Ethanol and isopropanol are specifically recommended for cleaning of 
> printed circuit boards. Plastic electronic parts are safe by 
> specification with those solvents.

Quite so.

> Rubbing alcohol from the drugstore is usually over 50% water. [...] 
> local commercial cleaning supplier[...] Ask for "dry" or "anhydrous" 
> alcohol

Here (Toronto, Ontario), you can get from the drugstore "rubbing 
alcohol" which is 70% isopropyl alcohol, or antiseptic alcohol, which 
is 99% isopropyl alcohol. Strictly speaking, anhydrous alcohol should 
be 100% alcohol, but I've seen the term applied commercially to alcohol 
which was as little as 96%, although more usually it's something like 
99.95% or more. It seems to me that 99% is fine for most uses.

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