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From: kevin@chromo.ucsc.edu (Kevin McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How to get rid of those white dust on TV (Ultrasonic humidifier)?
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Date: 3 Feb 88 04:33:28 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@chromo.UUCP (Susan Nordmark)
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Keywords: ultrasonic humidifier dust tv

I too started getting a sore throat last November when I broke
down and started turning on the heat regularly. A humidifier sounded
like a neat high-tech solution, but I always check out appliances with Consumer
Reports first, and CR's strongly negative remarks about the 
dust problems, as well as MOLD problems, dissuaded me completely
from going any further. It seems madness to me to pay lots of
money for a contraption that's going to wreck my computer terminal
unless I feed it distilled water and grow mold, amoebae, and
other critters unless I clean it every day or so with bleach 
(I got this info from CR and from medical journal articles about
the allergenic potential of humidifiers), especially since I  
already have allergies. 

My solution has been cheap, healthy and low-tech: baking pans full
of water over my heating registers.

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Susan Nordmark
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