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Sasqui · Oct 26, 2014

thebluebumblebee said:
I don't know if this is the first place on TPU that I saw reference to using a leaf blower to dust PC's, but I was like -yeah right - but was curious. I have an electric Toro leaf-blower-vac that has a way to adjust the amount of air that it blows (think throttle body) and removable nozzle, so between the 2, I have something that blows about twice (maybe more) as much air as a hair dryer at low pressure. All I can say about the result is: Dust be gone. I have an air compressor and although it is better at removing the fine-adhered dust, it ends up blowing the dust bunnies around in circles.

I drag my pc out to the driveway and use both a gas powered leafblower then a large compressed air tank with blower nozzle. Really quick and easy, plus I don't have to breath in that shit.

DanishDevil · Oct 29, 2014

I totally should have taken pictures, but I'm pretty sure the moist, salty air just killed my wife's motherboard. I took out the fan filter (admittedly hadn't cleaned it in too long) and after blowing it out with canned air, there were giant salt particles embedded in the mesh. I bet one of those made it through and fried something on the mobo. When we move away from the ocean I'm, buying all new components.

THE_EGG · Oct 29, 2014

DanishDevil said:
I totally should have taken pictures, but I'm pretty sure the moist, salty air just killed my wife's motherboard. I took out the fan filter (admittedly hadn't cleaned it in too long) and after blowing it out with canned air, there were giant salt particles embedded in the mesh. I bet one of those made it through and fried something on the mobo. When we move away from the ocean I'm, buying all new components.

I know what you mean, I lived across the road from the beach on the Gold Coast here in Australia for about a year (last year). I noticed the metal prong/stand thing on my AOC screen was pitting or beginning to corrode, the TV's housing was rusting along with the AV receiver and so on. Many other things were like this too but I thought I'd just mention a few (the external air-con unit thing was uber rusty - the paint was bubbling and other nasty stuff had occurred even before I moved in). Luckily nothing fell victim to the salt for me. No corrosion or salt particles in my stuff since I moved back to Brisbane.

Although Gold Coast is certainly the more fun city to live in.

DanishDevil · Oct 29, 2014

Here's at least a look under the stock CPU cooler. This is just what the canned air didn't get before I took the cooler off:

Mussels · Nov 11, 2014

server at work overheated. wonder why, when a P4 has a heatsink like this

JunkBear · Nov 11, 2014

Mussels said:
server at work overheated. wonder why, when a P4 has a heatsink like this

Im illeterate in servers but what type of business still use P4 as server?

RCoon · Nov 11, 2014

Mussels said:
server at work overheated. wonder why, when a P4 has a heatsink like this

Heatsink invaded by tribbles.

JunkBear said:
Im illeterate in servers but what type of business still use P4 as server?

File servers. Our latest FS4 uses a Pentium G3220. Files servers don't need processing power, just RAID arrays, and billions of gorrilabytes of space.

Mussels · Nov 11, 2014

our work server has to host about 200MB of files and be accesible on the LAN for other machines to do the work on. its not exactly high end stuff.

Random Murderer · Nov 11, 2014

Mussels said:
server at work overheated. wonder why, when a P4 has a heatsink like this

See, this is why I never liked the LGA775 and newer stock intel heatsinks. That, and the potential to lose a chunk of a finger against those fan blades that aren't exactly shrouded and made of some sort of plastic nearly as hard as diamond.

JunkBear · Nov 13, 2014

Random Murderer said:
See, this is why I never liked the LGA775 and newer stock intel heatsinks. That, and the potential to lose a chunk of a finger against those fan blades that aren't exactly shrouded and made of some sort of plastic nearly as hard as diamond.

Yup one time the fan turned under my nail lifting it.

Aceman.au · Feb 1, 2015

This isn't from a helpdesk job, but I think it belongs here, it's my keyboard that I cleaned out last week. This hadn't been cleaned since I bought it over a year ago. Probably should do it more often...

BEFORE:

AFTER:

R-T-B · Feb 1, 2015

Do you share a room with bigfoot? And feed him the occasional tortilla chip?

That most certainly does belong here though, thanks!

Aceman.au · Feb 1, 2015

R-T-B said:
Do you share a room with bigfoot? And feed him the occasional tortilla chip?

That most certainly does belong here though, thanks!

Hahahahaha. I like my Doritos. And I have a long hair cat.

R-T-B · Feb 1, 2015

Close enough hehe.

I've had some awful times cleaning my model M in terms of hair, food matter... etc. Next cleaning I will post here... The horrifying thing is, there are no pets in my room. Just me. D:

Aceman.au · Feb 1, 2015

Yeah humans shed a lot of hair and skin.

Jetster · Feb 1, 2015

Aceman.au said:
Yeah humans shed a lot of hair and skin.

Not if you shower

Aceman.au · Feb 1, 2015

Jetster said:
Not if you shower

Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells. Of course, this estimate can vary tremendously according to a person's size. The important thing is that you have a lot of skin cells. Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 of them fall off every hour. Over a 24-hour period, you lose almost a million skin cells.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/information/anatomy/shed-skin-cells.htm

If you're at the computer as much as I am, alot of those will get in the keyboard or just fall in there from the air.

Frick · Feb 1, 2015

Jetster said:
Not if you shower

I'm pretty hairy, so I let loose a lot of hair.

That's why I hate cats btw. People all just "naaawwww he's pissing on my keyboard, how adorable". They've brainwashed you all!

Aceman.au said:
Your skin makes up about 16 percent of your body weight, which means you have roughly 1.6 trillion skin cells. Of course, this estimate can vary tremendously according to a person's size. The important thing is that you have a lot of skin cells. Of those billions of skin cells, between 30,000 and 40,000 of them fall off every hour. Over a 24-hour period, you lose almost a million skin cells.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/information/anatomy/shed-skin-cells.htm

If you're at the computer as much as I am, alot of those will get in the keyboard or just fall in there from the air.

Cells man. You don't see cells.

Aceman.au · Feb 1, 2015

How many cells to form a visual particle then?

Jetster · Feb 1, 2015

Aceman.au said:
If you're at the computer as much as I am, alot of those will get in the keyboard or just fall in there from the air.

Well you obviously eat there too. I'm just Fn with you. Ill take a pic of mine

And this has been almost a year

Aceman.au · Feb 1, 2015

Not as bad

R-T-B · Feb 1, 2015

Jetster said:
Not if you shower

Shower? What is this shower?

Mussels · Feb 1, 2015

I have the same keyboard as up above, black widow ultimate.

It fills up with hair super damn fast. i use an air compressor to clean it out every few months.

Aceman.au · Feb 1, 2015

Mussels said:
I have the same keyboard as up above, black widow ultimate.

It fills up with hair super damn fast. i use an air compressor to clean it out every few months.

Yeah I gave it a basic wiping out then air compressor, dunno why I didnt do it the other way around, wasn't thinking that day.

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Feb 1, 2015

I think the occasional crumb of food is acceptable.

The occasional pubic hair is not.

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JunkBear

Aceman.au

R-T-B

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R-T-B

Aceman.au

Jetster

Aceman.au

Frick

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Aceman.au

Jetster

Aceman.au

R-T-B

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

Aceman.au

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