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From: mcmahan@netcom.UUCP (Dave Mc Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Dust in the Box (was: the 2000's noisy fan)
Message-ID: <13405@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 90 03:44:48 GMT
Organization: Dave McMahan @ NetCom Services
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 In a previous article, menzies@altitude.CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies) writes:
>dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) writes:
>>Is there some way to replace the 2000's fan with a quieter fan
>
>If you've had your 2000 for a while, the fan blades may be dirty.
>Take a few minutes to clean them and it should run alot quieter.
>Mine did.

I have found that my Amiga 2000 attracts an INCREDIBLE amount of dust.  I
usually vaccuum the hard disk air holes and front vents about every 3 days
to 1 week.  Once every 3 months or so, I open it up and use a vaccuum cleaner
on the inside.  I find HUGE amounts of dust inside.  I then use a can of 
compressed air to blow into the floppy drive, power supply cage, and hard
disk to free all the dust I couldn't suck out.  My amiga gets about 3-4 hours
of use every day.  Does anybody else have this problem?  It seems like some
type of dust filter for the front face of the machine where the air inlets
are would be a big help in cutting down the dust, especially for places like
stores and amiga developers that have their machines on 8-12 hours a day.  I
have found from reading manufacturers specs that the biggest contributor to
failure of parts is heat, and it seems that all this dust makes for great
little thermal blankets that surround each part in a form-fitting fashion.
Any thoughts?

Does anybody have some good suggestions for cutting down dust?


>>dylan
>-- 
>Stephen Menzies

    -dave