Today's lesson: Practice what ya Preach!

[Bovinia]

Welp, I just had that "oh sheet!" moment we all fear. I just picked up my purple BP that I haven't used in a couple of days and felt juice on the side of the tube. Yup I left a tank on it, and it leaked

The lesson of the day is sealed adapters!!! And don't leave your baby standing alone for days with the tank on! Now I get to take my own apart and clean it LMAO!! Got her bonnet off and believe it or not,it's dry as a bone under there! Just the inside of the threads and a little sticky under the outer screw, and of course the adapter

 

[arkador]

I have yet to have a rank leak more than about 1drop into the connector. Proper care and timely replacement of the carto seem to be the key. I have 2 tanks and tend to run just 1 at a time. One always has a new punched carto in it ready to be filled and used.

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[Bovinia]

This one was almost empty, the juice was just below the holes in the carto, so there wasn't much in it to leak. I had set it aside to change the carto and refill, but gravity and a used, saturated carto was the culprit. All's well that ends well

 

[908Tracy]

Glad it all worked out girl! Whew!

 

[Bovinia]

Me too Tracy!

 

[kwcharlie]

I posted this about a year ago and Mike said NO NO, don’t use water, but I’m going to say it again because it’s worked for me on everything from computer boards, servo motors, to PLC’s, some with pots in the PCB’s like the Buzz.
1. Wash it in water, maybe a LITTLE detergent, then rinse with the hottest water [lots of it] you can get out of your tap. Use a toothbrush if you can expose the parts but be careful of doing any mechanical damage with a brush.
2. LET SIT FOR 3 day.
3. You can do a little rinse with vodka but water is the best solvent on earth [that’s why everything we are made of is dissolved in water], and I have never killed a pot doing this, and other solvents can sometimes damage the plastics on the PCB’s I work with so I just use water to be safe.
4. Did I say to let it sit for 3 days?
Nothing beats TIME for evoking the second law of thermodynamics and allowing entropy to get everything you rinsed the PCB with to return to its unorganized state of vapor. Just 3 days isn’t enough time to have significant oxidation/corrosion from the water sitting on/in the electronics components.
OK, I’ll stop now; just have a lot of experience with water, and a lot of drying time, to clean PCB. It looks like ETA [Ethanol Alcohol, Everclear, vodka] is working but I wouldn’t use MTA [wood alcohol or naphtha], too many other “ingredients” added so the ATF doesn’t have to deal with its use. That stuff doesn’t evaporate and leaves a deposit on the electronics.

 

[Bovinia]

I was lucky Charlie...I didn't need to clean the innards