lonus and I are fairly well known for consistently complaining about brushed
aluminum finishes because products that have them are really frustrating to
handle an example of this is my fairly recent bit Phoenix Prodigy video where
yet again I can barely touch the product with my hands make it pretty tricky to
actually do a case review well a member of our community on that video has
pointed out that it's no big deal mfk 51
said that you can just clean oil etge fingerprints off with some Windex
speaking of oil lonus and I will be making an oil cooled PC build guide soon
so make sure you stay subscribed to that so you won't miss it but for
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our first specimen is one of our g750 j-z gaming laptops they aren't super old
so there hasn't been a ton of time for hand oils to etch very deep into the
brush aluminum but it's still quite covered and quite gross overall so we're
going to see how well the Windex method Works another idea that we will be
testing on this laptop is different types of Strokes which might work best
for different folks you normally want to clean with the grain so go with the
brush strokes and the aluminum but in areas that this would be difficult we're
going to test a circular motion to see if it actually really matters so just to
start off going to spray our cloth with a fairly large amount of Windex cuz we
have a lot of surface to cover and then just kind of go to town
so for the major parts I'm going to be going with the
grain so just down the laptop
essentially cuz the grain is just straight down the laptop
now this top part I can mostly get it by going with the
green but not entirely so there's still there's still
definitely areas there that didn't get very well taken care of and when you're
doing this you want to go all the way down and over the edge so that you don't
leave um Gunk at the end so you don't
leave any marks there so it's kind of
hard here because you can see I can't get all the way up in there so we're
going to try the circular pattern up here by kind of shoving my finger into
the cloth and using it as more of a direct applicator and then just trying
to get up in
there next we have an old Silverstone tj10 that has been around the office for
quite a while now this was a production computer for quite some time so it has
definitely seen its fair share of abuse in the oily hands Department especially
on the front panel we'll be cleaning the tower's front panel on one side with
Windex and on the other side with 99% isopropyl alcohol just to see if there
is any differences between these two products when it comes to cleaning
brushed aluminium one thing that should be noted is that after quite a bit of
use this Tower was already wiped down all over with isopropyl alcohol by lonus
before it was stored in the garage for a few months so the marks on it that you
see now have already survived one cleaning so we've sectioned off the
front of the case the left side is for isopropyl alcohol and the right side is
for Windex the you can see in the top right hand corner it's been sectioned
off again that's because this is where people would open the actual case so
this is the worst problem area so we didn't want to have Windex just deal
with that by itself and alcohol have an easy time but below this is generally
the same as the rest of the case so we just sectioned off this top part and the
left side will again be alcohol and the right side will be Windex but then the
rest of it will be cleaned by just their respective individual cleaners so here
we have the first cloth which has already been dosed with alcohol and then
so I'm going to brush with the grain because we just have a very large surface here so it should be easy enough
to just do
that I'm be putting in a little bit of elbow grease but not way too
much we're going to have have to let it I know the alcohol evaporates super
quickly but we're going to have to kind of let it dry a little bit for the Windex so after I clean the Windex
section here give me a sec to get a Different
Cloth
okay after I do the Windex section um
we're probably going to have to cut for a little bit let it dry and then come
back
so it actually looks really good um I did go and talk to lonus after I noticed
the alcohol worked really well considering he already cleaned it with
alcohol it shouldn't have had fingerprints on it looking at it now and
when talking to him he may have used paper towel instead of microfiber cloth
and he definitely used less alcohol on the cloth than I did so that might have
something to do with it maybe a little bit more alcohol a bigger and better
cloth might help a lot so just something
to take note of as the alcohol did look like it did a really good job but so did
the Windex I just expected the Windex to beo the alcohol by a lot in this case
because we had already used alcohol and there was fingerprints on it but they
both looked like they did really good both in the harder test and the top
right hand corner which had a lot more fingerprint etching and in the not so
bad areas on the far left and bottom right hand kind of sections of the case
as well so the circular motion pattern didn't really work I think uh a lot of
the reason why it didn't really work as the residue that the Windex leaves behind if you're able to go in Broad
Strokes like say with the grain it should be able to go completely off and
pull all the Windex residue with it not leaving any gross streaks behind but
when you go in that circular pattern you're inherently leaving things behind
so it does kind of end up being really gross overall so there you have it folks
but before we leave you today there are two more things I want to say first off
is that for things that are truly messed up and have a ton of deep etching on
them you will need to repair it by using something aggressive or abrasive so you
can wear down the area around it to make it flat but this is not really
recommended at all with brushed aluminum
because you will probably destroy the brush look and make it look kind of
trash when you're done unless you're very very skilled and there might be
some exceptions there but still still just don't and second is that whatever
MEK 51 thinks this still doesn't excuse the use of brush aluminum on products
that were actually meant to touch wrist rests computer cases monitors Etc is
still quite hard to work with and we will still likely be complaining when it
is used in stupid places like wrist rests for your keyboard and other things
as well but at least armed with this method and regular maintenance you'll
have a chance to keep it goodlooking in the long run all right guys thanks
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