Bought a mic preamp from a studio that allowed smoking. Opened the box and was hit in the face. Luckily the preamp does get warm, so the smell went away in a couple of weeks. I still need to clean out some of the switches though, dang.
@YMO This is the Burl B2 Bomber, no way it's gonna sit still for a whole week! I already took it apart and I plan to wash the enclosure with vinegar. Or maybe put it in the dishwasher? (semi-serious)
@Collusion dude let nature do its thing. It will get rid of the smoke smell by being in an environment with no smokes. Trust me, I purchased so much crap from Asia with tons of smoking smell on it. I leave it alone, and it goes away yo.
What I discovered when I quit tobacco is that the smell of it is much more pervasive and invasive than I ever imagined. On the other hand, I never cleaned the furniture or scrubbed down the walls, and I guess I found the smell faded from the house in a fairly short time. And born-again non-smokers can get very sensitive. Perhaps a never-smoked might not have agreed with me
My brother cleaned a dirty graphics card in the dishwasher a few months ago. After a few days of drying, he fired it up and it worked perfectly. However, this was a disassembled GPU. I'd be worried about other parts like transformers in the dishwasher. Maybe just clean the case? The smell probably hasn't invaded the internals.
I did clean to whole enclosure with isopropyl alcohol, also from the inside. The PSU card was easy to remove, but the mainboard was a bit too tricky, thanks to those AES/EBU inputs with push flanges. I wiped what I could and the thing is now less smelly.
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