After transferring my components to a new case, ive got a few sharkoon silent eagle fans spare about that could do with a clean. Would it be ok to clean the blades with isopropyl alcohol, due to the dimples on the blades theyre a wee bit grubby and hard to clean with a cloth. I was thinking of an old tooth brush to give them a scrub.
Cleaning fan blades with IPA
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furniture polish works good
contains natural bees wax aswell so aids airflow by giving the surface less friction and stops crap sticking to them.
if i'm thinking correctly, stringed instrument players put bees wax on their strings to create more friction, so wouldn't this principle apply in the same way?
No, waxing a bow is a bad idea, you need to use Rosin (which sometimes contains small amounts of wax, but not much) which aids friction. Wax alone would make things worse.
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I have a collection of very soft paint bruses.. Just vacuum and brush together
Managed to get them cleaned, they werent really to bad, just that having white dimpled blades made them a wee bit harder to clean, smoking in the same room probably didnt help, though ive since stopped smoking in the house.