Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!shelby!neon!kaufman
From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac temperature, fan, dust.
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.232120.14274@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Aug 90 23:21:20 GMT
References: <2125@ux.acs.umn.edu> <8999.26d534ec@rsmas.miami.edu> <1990Aug26.220310.1263@cs.umn.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Lines: 21

In article <1990Aug26.220310.1263@cs.umn.edu> aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) writes:

[much discussion of psycho-thermodynamics... deleted]

>Other people out there, don't reverse your fans unless you are an engineer
>for Apple, or are rich enough to buy lots of Macs (including one for me :-).  

On what basis do you make this statement?  Appeal to authority?

The "quiet fan" replacement discussed here long ago (replacing the normal
fan with a Radio Shack fan) has, as a side effect, a reversal of the air flow
if you put the fan into the machine in the obvious way.  I deliberately
reversed the flow on my Mac IIx when I started using the Kensington stand,
so that the forced flow would aid convection, rather than fight it.  I have
seen no problems reported on the net, and my own machine has no problems.
There is certainly less dust in the floppy drives.

Next, I suppose someone will tell us that disks should rotate the other way
in the Southern Hemisphere.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)