On 2019-08-25, Mayayana wrote:
"Cleaner Advise" wrote

| Looking for a vacuum cleaner to clean my machine from inside. Less
| aggressive solution please as I don't want the cables to be sucked away
| and ruin my machine!!.

I just use a regular vacuum with the "get-in-the-corners"
attachment. It's plastic, but I still avoid actual contact
to minimize static electricity risk. The high suction from that
small tip is an advantage. You can't easily vacuum up
circuit boards and cables, and having the high suction means
that I can clean parts without touching them. Don't waste
money on "high tech" vacuum cleaners. Those are just made
to exploit compulsive types -- the kind of people who cover
their computer with a plastic bag when the housecleaner
comes; not because the computer benefits but rather because
they anthropomorphize their computer and imagine it to be
as OCD as they are. (There are a lot of people writing code
who shouldn't be trusted to make their own coffee. The worst
part is that they assume, because they're geniuses at code,
they're also geniuses at everything else. So why can't they
find their own buttonholes? Must be that a state college
engineer designed the shirt.

I also use filters. Home Depot sells a furnace filter pad,
maybe 20x24. It comes with a black carbon filter pad and
a black plastic grid for support. Three layers. It's thin, with
low air resistance. I cut the pads to fit over the box's intake
holes, cut a plastic grid to match, then attach that with
small plastic ties. Occasionally I'll vacuum the outside of the
filters. The overall effect is that I get very little dust inside
in the first place.

It seems idiotic to me that computer cases don't come
with similar, replaceable filters.

Some cases do.

We have two Advantech 4U industrial PC cases at work that have
washable filters in the front

--
When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.