Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:9817 unix-pc.general:5643 Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general Path: utzoo!telly!robohack!hybrid!mdapoz From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) Subject: Re: 3b1, antistatic tab removal Message-ID: <1990Jun17.072553.239@hybrid.UUCP> Organization: The Home for Unemployed Basselopes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada References: <303@sphere.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 07:25:53 GMT In article yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin) writes: >In article <303@sphere.UUCP> ruck@sphere.UUCP (John R Ruckstuhl Jr) writes: >>My 3b1 ingests much dust. How do you/I remove the accumulated dust from >>the opened 3b1? (I considered wiping the motherboard with an old >>paintbrush, but worried about static (dis)charge.) > >Presumably an air compressor would also work? Bottled gas for cleaning my >computer is not the kind of thing I like spending money on. I use the air from my scuba tanks to blow off the dust. Amazing how much dust 120 psi of air will blow away :-) Regardless of what method you use, it's probably a good idea to do it outside your house, it makes a real mess if you don't! -- Managing a software development team | Mark Dapoz is a lot like being on the psychiatric | mdapoz%hybrid@cs.toronto.edu ward. -Mitch Kapor, San Jose Mercury | ...uunet!mnetor!hybrid!mdapoz