Dusting a PC

[Feek]

You've all seen those little tins of compressed air you can buy for dusting a PC. I've always thought them particularly rubbish.

So today I did it my way.

Take one divers bottle, capacity 12 litres of compressed filled at 300 bar (that's a tad under 4,500 psi), add one very dusty PC and open the tap on the air bottle.

Cue one absolutely huge cloud of dust billowing about 20 feet into the air. Imagine the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion and you're getting close.

Result. A very dust free PC for very little effort.

w00t :D

[Stan_Lite]

This man has style :D

How many PCs do you think I'd get out of a standard bottle?

Stan :)

[Darrin]

I got you beat, Feek.

55 gallon drum sealed shut with a nozzle on the top with an included valve on it.

Attach to the nozzle a hose much like on a Hoover.







After using a 7hp vacuum pump to bring it down to an almost perfect vacuum inside.

I almost pulled components off the motherboard with that thing. But there wasn't a spot of dust ANYWHERE to be found.

[semi-pro waster]

You guys are a bit mental frankly but full marks for ingenuity, my PC is lucky to get cleaned ever and it still runs fine. :D

[Feek]

It's because I'm doing a complete shack emtpy, tidy, clean.

I've already got 7 bin bags full of rubbish and I'm not even a quarter of the way done.

[Treefrog]

This reminds me of the story behind the Fischer Space Pen, developed for NASA.
Biros wouldn't work because of zero gravity, reduced air pressure or whatever, so they spent $1 million developing the pen with its pressurised cartridge which would write upside down, underwater, etc. Obviously the Russian cosmonauts had the same problem.
Their solution? A pencil.

1/2" soft natural bristle paintbrush that's never been near paint or anything else ftw ;)

[Feek]

A paintbrush would work, but it'd mean taking off the drives, removing the PSU and making space inside to get it in there. A large dose of compressed air did the job much quicker and more efficiency, as would the vacuum trick.

Anyway, I'm almost done in here. I've been tidying and cleaning the shack since Thursday.

Can you believe that a room a mere 9ft x 8ft could contain so much rubbish? I've taken at least 25 black bin bags (I lost count at 25) of crap to the local dump, and that's not including the stuff I've put in the loft.

It's like a bloody TARDIS in here!

[Pebs]

I hoovered mine with a dyson.

[LeperousDust]

i've done that before but i've heard vacum cleaners make loads of static near the nozzle and its asking for trouble sticking it in a PC. It's all factually correct i've just been lucky the few times i've done it!

[Feek]

Yeah, I'd never let a vacuum cleaner near the insides of a PC.

[Admiral Huddy]

I find the dishwasher helps :)

[Feek]

Only with black powder revolvers!! :)

Oh no, that would be spam, sorry :D

[Will]

Dammit you could have taken a vid or something :p

[Mark]

Can you believe that a room a mere 9ft x 8ft could contain so much rubbish? I've taken at least 25 black bin bags (I lost count at 25) of crap to the local dump, and that's not including the stuff I've put in the loft.
Sounds like my house

A few bin bags have gone already but given I'm reliant on the local bin men I'm somewhat limited. Definite signs of improvement have shown though. Probably closer to 50 bin bags worth here. :eek:

Oh, and btw, this thread is useless without pics/videos. :p

[mejinks]

TBH it would have been quicker to use 2lb of cordite

[Feek]

:(

[mejinks]

:(


Sorry, couldn't resist. Thats what I suggested to my brother when he gave me his PIII 500 to "upgrade" Funilly enough he made the same face.