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From: moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney)
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Subject: Re: Computer war stories (Steel wool)
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 13:17:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 13:17:02 1986
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Here's another example of what steel wool in the wrong places can do
to a machine:
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And yet another flooring story...

	(Being a hardware engineer at heart, I still shiver when I think
	about this one.)

	Seams there was a cleaning lady that was assigned to the floor that
	had the computer on it (a Zerox SIGMA 5 if it really matters).  Well,
	one day she decided that the heal marks in the raised tile floor just
	had to be cleaned up.  After seeing that the soap and wax did not take
	all the marks out, she then tried steel wool!

	The customer had to replace the whole machine.

	Since the cooling fans draw from the bottom, all the evaporating wax
	was sucked up through the machine.  The soft coating on the PC cards
	and backplane made a good home for all the small pieces of steel
	wool that flew by later.