How to clean inside Amps and PreAmps

If you are going to clean the inside of your equipment, please unplug the items first. This is obvious, but needed to be said. Dust will collect, so occasional cleaning is really necessary, but do so safely. Non conductive brushes (still unplugged mind you), is a good idea.

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The best way to clean solid state equipment is to throw it into a lake and let it lay on the bottom for a couple of years. In the meantime, replace all of the equipment that now sits on the bottom of the lake with good quality vacuum tube equipment. All other responses above apply. :>)

+1 Oregonpapa

Does dust harm the gear? If not, why bother dusting it out. I see the potential for damage or worse.

Like the old adage goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Dust across PCB tracks and component legs, can become conductive in hi humidity and cause trouble.

Just in the last few days in Sydney we had the worst storms ever recorded damp everywhere in the house.

I had I thought my computer motherboard had bit the "dust" as it would not turn on even with a blade shorting out the turn on pins. Checked everything even changed the powersupply.
I saw a layer of dust across some of the tracks and swept it clean, then she turned on while I was sweeping it off, and it been fine ever since.

Cheers George