Cleaning tobacco tar off eyelet board - Fender Twin Reverb

[GussyLoveridge]

Hey Folks -

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. I've got a 70's Twin Reverb on my bench. It's heavily laden with tobacco tar and I'd like to clean it up before repairing it and putting it back into service. I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with this and if they can offer any suggestions. I did some reviewing on Google but came up with nothing concrete save for a video of some dude cleaning an old rotary phone with Windex.

Please advise.

Gus.

 

[abbey road d enfer]

I use "Eau ecarlate", otherwise known as "Colour catcher"; alternatively I use a can of label remover. I believe they are more or less the same product. There's also a version you can buy in pharmacies (drugstores) that is used for removing residues from band-aids, but it's much more expensive; from the smell, I would swear it(s identical.
Both leave humidity on the boards so you have to dry them thoroughly before turning on!
Beware it can remove the markings on some of the components.

 

[CJ]

that's solder rosin, maybe,

 

[Roly]

Methyl hydrate will do the job.
It's cheap and evaporates.

 

[GussyLoveridge]

that's solder rosin, maybe,

Fairly certain this is tobacco tar.

Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.

 

[PRR]

I bought a house from a guy who SMOKED.

Ammonia is what you want. Straight from the bottle. (The 5% cleaning stuff in the supermarket; not the pure stuff used in factories and farms.)

We were doing whole walls. I guess you want a sash brush. At least you can take it outside; an indoor wall is brutal even with fan.