[HAM] cleaning scanners :

[benjamin]

To all you Hammlovers .. 

Cleaning products like Tetra will be hard to find now ( it was a cleaner that was used in Cloths dry cleaning shops and also amongst ink-printers to clean their machines , but the best  products that you can buy for the moment are ISOPROPANOL   and the second best product to use is the thing that's sold in Caraccesory and profesional toolshops : CAR BREAKE-CLEANER;
These are two products that give no residu after drying out  and they dry very easely ,very fast evaporating and very good degreasing , the carbreak cleaner removes even better all foreign stuff that used to glue on shafts etc ..take care it is not the cleaning stuff that is used for cleaning wheels from the brake dust , no it is the presurized spray can that is used to clean all brake components . 

Hope I help you a litle bit  with the cleaning problems ( the new products absorb much better the grease and oil and other foreign  stuff , they are sorted especially for a better action and less residu after the treatment.

I personally do not use WD40 for fine mechanic work  because it contains  a lot of mixes that are nasty for finemechanics ;; go for the propper chemicals and the propper pure oil based on vaseline or even syntetic oil ; one of the best oils is the special syntetic oil that is fabricated to grease the axles of the tumble dryers ,that thing is life greased for 10 years ! and it is a chroom steel shaft with usually running on bronze bearings ..it gets hot like hell and it starts from cold and never is supposed to be taken apart ....further  in mechanic workshops  bronze bearings are often placed in a can or container  and heated , nearly cooked for 100 C° in the oil so they absorb the oil in their porous substance making them LIFE- greased for several years . 
 
Maybe others have different ideas , but this is my way of working for years now .. 

All the best from Benjamin in Belgium