In Electrolytic Capacitor Removal NO Desoldering Required Paul Carlson says he uses lacquer thinner to clean circuit boards. On the Wikipedia article for Lacquer thinner it says these are usually mostly acetone. Personally I would only crack out the acetone if the IPA wasn’t working for me. Acetone is serious business.
I was searching for this earlier and couldn’t find it. WordPress search is shit. As my mate Craig told me the antidote to hot glue is isopropyl.
I have organised my BNC adapter drawer. I gave everything a good scrub with isopropyl too.
So I asked about cleaning cables over here and apparently the material on the outside of a typical cable is PVC (Polyvinyl chloride), AKA “vinyl”. The jury is still out on what the best cleaner is for vinyl, but options include WD40, IPA, and metho (ethanol). I was worried that such solvents might damage PVC around electrical cables, but apparently it won’t.
So thanks to my *subscriber* Craig I now also have ethanol:
I’m not sure when you’d use ethanol rather than isopropyl. Maybe Craig can tell us in the comments section? :)