The Power of Ultrasonic Cleaning: A Beginner's Experience

As I sat at my workbench, surrounded by various electronic components and cleaning supplies, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. My goal for the day was to clean my old graphics card using an ultrasonic cleaner, a device that promised to remove dirt, grime, and thermal paste from the intricate surfaces of modern electronics. With the help of 99 isopropyl alcohol, I was ready to give it a try.

I began by applying a generous amount of vaseline to the toothbrush, which would serve as my primary cleaning tool. The sticky substance clung perfectly to the soft bristles, allowing me to scrub away at any stubborn grime or debris that may have accumulated on the graphics card. I inserted the brush into the ultrasonic cleaner and began to rotate it back and forth, watching in amazement as the device started to create a miniature whirlpool of water and cleaning solution.

The sound of the machine was like nothing I had ever heard before - a low-pitched whine that seemed to vibrate through every molecule in the air. It was almost hypnotic, drawing me deeper into its depths with each passing second. As I continued to clean, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at the sheer power of this device. The way it effortlessly broke down the adhesive that held thermal paste and grime in place was truly remarkable.

As I applied more cleaning solution to the toothbrush, I noticed that the machine started to emit a faint humming noise. This was a good sign, as it indicated that the device had reached its optimal operating temperature. With the sound of the machine growing louder and more intense, I felt a sense of trepidation wash over me. Was this thing going to destroy my precious graphics card?

But instead of disaster, I was greeted with a sight that made my heart skip a beat. The thermal paste and grime that had accumulated on the board were being sucked away, leaving behind a pristine surface that shone like new. It was as if the machine had performed some kind of magic, removing every last bit of dirt and debris from the delicate surfaces of the graphics card.

As I watched in amazement, the machine continued to work its magic, sucking up even the smallest particles of dust and grime that may have been hiding in the corners of the board. It was a truly impressive sight, one that left me feeling both amazed and a little bit scared. What other secrets did this device hold?

Finally, after several minutes of cleaning, I decided to turn off the machine and inspect my handiwork. To my delight, the graphics card looked almost brand new, with nary a speck of grime or thermal paste in sight. The sound of the machine had ceased, and an eerie silence fell over the workshop.

But as I reached for my toothbrush to clean up any remaining debris, I noticed something strange. A small amount of vaseline was still clinging to the bristles, leaving behind a faint residue on the surface of the board. It seemed that this substance was more than just a simple cleaning agent - it was also a key player in the ultrasonic cleaning process.

As I continued to work with the machine, I began to realize that the combination of 99 isopropyl alcohol and vaseline was the secret to its success. The alcohol would evaporate quickly, leaving behind a dry surface that was perfect for reapplying thermal paste or other cleaning agents. Meanwhile, the vaseline would help to loosen any remaining grime or debris, allowing the machine to suck it away with ease.

It was a clever combination, one that I had stumbled upon by chance. But now, armed with this knowledge, I felt like a new man - ready to tackle even the most daunting cleaning tasks with confidence and aplomb. The ultrasonic cleaner had proven itself to be a valuable tool in my arsenal of electronic cleaning supplies, and I couldn't wait to see what other adventures it would take me on.

As I carefully placed the cleaned graphics card onto its holder, I felt a sense of pride and accomplishment wash over me. It was a small victory, perhaps - but one that would have far-reaching consequences for my future endeavors as an electronics enthusiast. The ultrasonic cleaner had proven itself to be a worthy ally in the battle against dirt and grime, and I knew that we would be inseparable from now on.

But as I looked back at the machine, still humming quietly in the corner of the workshop, I couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation. What other secrets did it hold? And what lay ahead for us as we continued to explore the uncharted territory of electronic cleaning? Only time would tell - but one thing was certain: I was ready for whatever came next.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're going to clean stuff so i've been doing the uh extreme overclocking stuff and here's what happens with all the vaseline we put in there to try and insulate it from water and such it just starts to get really really nasty we were just overclocking with this card so it's got a little bit of moisture on it but one of the things that vince you know kingpin suggested that i invest in is a good ultrasonic cleaner let's look over the vaseline so that i can clean the card and get all the crap out of the nooks and crannies see what happens is the vaseline starts to turn into an insulator not only to keep water out but eventually water will make its way under the chips and under the things on the board which start to lead to our problems so if you get a good close-up on that neck they can see just how gross all that is in there like it's just it's not like you won't touch it i'm good it's all slimy so i'm gonna clean the thermal paste off and we're gonna for the first time together use my new ultrasonic cleaner so i think i paid like 300 bucks for this or something and if you don't know how an ultrasonic cleaner works it literally just suspends the item in there in this case we're gonna be using 99 isopropyl alcohol so this is like laboratory grade it's actually really expensive um so we've got something smells weird it's probably that because that has like a new machine smell kind of oh yeah i was like something smells weird it smells like burnt steak oh you can see just how slime like look i've been touching the card watch that gives you an idea of how nasty the card is so we use the purest isopropyl alcohol that we can for the ultrasonic cleaning that way we don't have any other minerals and stuff that are being introduced to the board because the isopropyl alcohol will loosen up all of the adhesives and stuff that have been on here from the tape uh the other card which still has the block on it right there it's really bad so this is just gonna allow us to clean the card get it all back to like brand new and you said to let this go for about seven minutes like i said i've not used this yet it's my first time and i believe depending on you know how dirty the isopropyl alcohol gets it's good for more than one cleaning like i also got it well i put on my christmas list anyway with my wife a small one like a little a little one that like a liter would last me forever to clean like my airbrush and stuff for like my models because i'm tired of hand cleaning my airbrush it's like i don't want to bring out the airbrush because i'm like man i have to clean it it's like painting right people can love painting the worst part of painting is the cleanup oh nick true yeah so anyway let's uh let's get this thing plugged in let's get ourselves a little bit familiar with the menu look it's just a computer cable look at that it's funny how this is like the standard for everything and then like i said vince said to let go for about seven minutes now i have cleaned this board once and you can do this by the way um with pretty much all electronics in fact uh isopropyl alcohol the 99 stuff when you look at the uses for it it even uh talks about electronics cleaning so that's the nice thing about 99 isopropyl so if you get in fact you could even do this if you had like a water block leak and you get some corrosion or something on your board you want to get as clean as possible you could do it the same way if you don't want to buy an ultrasonic cleaner because you're like there's no point in having it for one cleaning then you can use a plastic bag use like an anti-static bag like you would have a motherboard chipped in put the motherboard or the graphics card or motherboard in there put as much alcohol in there as you can to to make it as full as possible um kind of seal up the end tie knot or whatever in there and then just sort of let it sit kind of slosh it around and let it sit in there for about 10 minutes and then you can take a soft bristle brush and kind of work it out the nice thing is the ultrasonic effect of this is our brush sound it's sound that's it so it's not gonna be physically moving anything it's gonna be moving vibrating the liquid through sound ultrasonic it works yeah it's funny because uh it smells a little bit different than like the other isopropyl alcohol that you would get like the store this is 91 you can get that like rite aid and stuff and it's my understanding after talking with vince that you could use 91 for this that's fine just you don't want to use like the 70 because there's too many other minerals and things in that um it has a different smell too which is funny like the 99 it smells like like an examination room in a doctor's office it's funny because they also use it for sterilization of clean rooms doctors offices labs hospitals so you can imagine right now with everything going on that's also made this uh a little more expensive than i think it would have been say this time last year it's not the thermal paste is gone let's see what one liter will get us this is a 30 liter bin but i had to make sure it would fit our card plant like i don't even need to suspend it well let's get underneath it i know but i mean couldn't i make it couldn't i just put screws on there to make it suspend itself so it's a little lower i don't know let's just make sure this is closed first of all um that's on that's off okay so that's to get the fluid out it would suck to pour it in right now it just started and it just starts coming out right so so like i said this is a 30 liter tank i could have probably gotten away with the 15 liter one to be honest i thought it was gonna be big enough to put a motherboard in because we do the same technique with the vaseline on the motherboards i was wrong so 30 liters was clearly too much and i have a little cut on my cuticle and every time i go to open this little thing it splashes on there oh just makes you know you're alive it's like a bird look or like an old atari game there's a little bit of air that's in there wow so we're gonna definitely need all four liters in there all right well if i order another gallon worth in fact i'm going to put the card in there now oh sores on my hands put your hand in alcohol your fingertips are clean now they feel really dry that's for sure don't breathe all i smell is alcohol vapors now not the good kind like the four liters might just be enough you can see some of the adhesive gunk that's still on like that gold part right there so i'm assuming the alcohol will break up the adhesive and then the vibration of the sound will make it come loose everyone's always like jay got a divorce is it worth wedding ring anymore no it's because i always do stuff like this i don't want to destroy it it's my father's ring did you know that jay's two cents divorce was like a google search for quite a while people just assumed like you have a ring on anymore you must have got a divorce people wishing there to be drama okay oh that one's already like disappearing is it oh yeah okay let's turn are you ready at the little waves that's so cool oh look at the thermal paste it smells like a hospital man you see the thermal taste like bubbling up some yeah wow are we putting the lid on it or does it not really matter i guess the lids they're just like look at the thermal paste it's like thinning out and smooshing out of all the crevices i'm curious to how well this is going to do with the uh the vaseline though to be honest so those either might be concerning oh my god they're submerging it it's wet this alcohol is absolutely non-conductive and it dries extremely fast too i probably shouldn't sit right here there were the nose in there like it dries completely i also turned on the warmer which really helped for the vaseline i'm going to let it go for six more minutes with it being nice and warm and then we'll take it out and i wish i had a clean toothbrush that way we could kind of like oh we'll see how it goes all right so we did two cleaning cycles on it um it's not as much about getting all the vaseline and and all of the thermal paste and all that off as much as it's about getting the alcohol behind the chips and all that and to grab any water that's back there it's so warm together so it's more so about getting all the water that's collected on there and then having it uh dry it look at that look how fast it dries see that yeah my hands are so dry now like the skin so you can see it's gotten all the crap off it didn't oh look at that look at that take off my sharpie dude okay i i was a little skeptical at first but it's pretty obvious now that this is like like a brand new it's like it just came off the assembly line holy crap all the crap that was sucked to the memory is gone the back of the board like i wonder if this stuff will come off yep look at that i feel like i could do one more yep i feel like i can do one more cleaning on this now you know get rid of all this junk in between here because see that's still that's still vaseline that was trapped underneath all of the the spongy stuff so this stuff right here it's very tacky the adhesive on this and that's what that is but that was adhesive that mixed with the therm with the um that was adhesive that mixed with the vaseline and it sort of made like its own kind of a goop there so i feel like yes it's all coming off over here the alcohol has definitely done its job i'm now using this toothbrush which also has vaseline on it to loosen this up some that is awesome okay i was not expecting this to work as well as it is but i guess considering the fact that they do say that this is electronics grade certainly makes sense it also killed the uh sticker with the cereal number and stuff on it oops so yeah keep that in mind any stickers and stuff on there it's probably going to ruin it dude it came all off i'm so happy stop inhaling jay this is a very soft bristled brush here i see all the stuff collecting on the bottom too which i guess makes sense you know that's why you would want it suspended so now that i've loosened that up let's see what i'm going to turn this on i know the sound is not pleasant it's a nice thing about alcohol is it just the rubbing kind not the drinking kind it uh so that guarantees that there was any water trapped behind any of these chips or modules that the alcohol completely dried it up because the alcohol will completely evaporate the water so now look at it complete clean board ready to be overclocked once again so kind of a fun little video here i think uh showing you guys my first experience using the ultrasonic cleaner for graphics card um if you guys are doing it you need to do any sort of deep cleaning on an old electronic consider an ultrasonic cleaner with uh 99 isopropyl alcohol there you go guys thanks for watching and as always we'll see you in the next one you\n"