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Was looking for used phones on eBay and found something I've never seen before.
Check out this Video

Is there a chance that moisture and detergent is still inside?

I would say yes. Not something I would try with any telephone outside of a display model.

Passed it on to the guy here who cleans our phones.

That cant be right, thats gotta get water inside the housing.

De-Ionized water and electronic cleaner. Sounds OK to me. Just like any cleaning watch how close the nozzle gets to openings and blow dry real good. I would let the phone dry for a couple days be fore plugging it in. But if it very dirty at all I would disassemble and clean button openings and under key pad rubber.

went looking for other "tutorials" on how to wash electronics and guess what i found, another video posted by the same guy.

In this Video he is going after PC.

Really??? Is that a new way?

A lot of telephone sets had paper cone speakers under the plastic grill. I ain't buying it unless you disassemble it.

While de-ionized water and electronic circuit cleaner is unlikely to cause issues once dry, if the phone is filthy and covered in grime and salts, this mixed with the water surely must cause issues if it gets inside

I've hand cleaned thousands if not 10's of thousands of phones and have taught dozens of people how to clean phones. I have disassembled 100's of thousands of phones.

This may work on a relatively clean newer model phone---but on the old phones--10 & 15 years old at least--that way just ain't gonna work. Maybe I'm all wrong, but I just don't buy it. Let me rephrase that...I won't buy that. But, that's just me.

If you look that phone going in is pretty new.
It didnt include the handset ,so who cleans the makeup and ear wax
My issues were always scratches and not dirt.