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Vacuum Cleaner
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!!. |
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On 24/08/2019 23.15, Cleaner Advise wrote:
Looking for a vacuum cleaner to clean my machine from inside.Â* Less aggressive solution please as I don't want the cables to be sucked away and ruin my machine!!. Googling, I saw this: https://www.bestvacuumguide.org/best-computer-vacuum/ -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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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!!. Damn. I found one for $500 in local currency, and it has a hepafilter on it. That means very little of what is sucked up the hose, ends up blowing into the room. The vacuum could be used for cleaning up laser toner powder perhaps. That means, while the product brags of having 1.7HP, most of that is wasted sucking through the resistance of the hepafilter. https://www.amazon.ca/Metro-Vacuum-D.../dp/B000RMQJBK The reviewers say it has a low and a high setting, and when used on low, it doesn't get as hot. Sounds like a champ. ******* I have an adapter kit that fits Hoover vacuums, so you're not buying another vacuum. But the hose is a tiny diameter, and there just isn't dust removal power there. In the picture here, I use the tool located at "7PM" in the picture. I've never ever used any of the brush ones. You don't clean a whole computer with this, by the way. It would take a century to do that. You use this for perhaps touching up some fan blades or the like. If there was an obvious clog (cleaning the blower on your laptop), that's the kind of small, self-contained mess this would clean up. You won't be doing the hall carpet with this. Tweezers would be faster. https://www.amazon.ca/Schneider-Indu.../dp/B000BSJCLY At least the first one above, has a slightly bigger hose than the second kit. The fastest way to clean a computer would be: 1) Outdoors. 2) A blower. But that also generates ESD. And we can't have that. Paul |
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Vacuum Cleaner
Try putting your penis in the vacuum cleaner
while you jack your anus. |
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On 8/24/2019 6:19 PM, Paul wrote:
Cleaner Advise wrote: Looking for a vacuum cleaner to clean my machine from inside.Â* Less aggressive solution please as I don't want the cables to be sucked away and ruin my machine!!. Damn. I found one for $500 in local currency, and it has a hepafilter on it. That means very little of what is sucked up the hose, ends up blowing into the room. The vacuum could be used for cleaning up laser toner powder perhaps. That means, while the product brags of having 1.7HP, most of that is wasted sucking through the resistance of the hepafilter. https://www.amazon.ca/Metro-Vacuum-D.../dp/B000RMQJBK The reviewers say it has a low and a high setting, and when used on low, it doesn't get as hot. Sounds like a champ. ******* I have an adapter kit that fits Hoover vacuums, so you're not buying another vacuum. But the hose is a tiny diameter, and there just isn't dust removal power there. In the picture here, I use the tool located at "7PM" in the picture. I've never ever used any of the brush ones. You don't clean a whole computer with this, by the way. It would take a century to do that. You use this for perhaps touching up some fan blades or the like. If there was an obvious clog (cleaning the blower on your laptop), that's the kind of small, self-contained mess this would clean up. You won't be doing the hall carpet with this. Tweezers would be faster. https://www.amazon.ca/Schneider-Indu.../dp/B000BSJCLY At least the first one above, has a slightly bigger hose than the second kit. The fastest way to clean a computer would be: 1) Outdoors. 2) A blower. But that also generates ESD. And we can't have that. Â*Â* Paul What do you think of something like this? I've used a small blower on computers donated for a charity with no problems. https://www.amazon.com/EasyGo-CompuC.../dp/B0787KXTFW |
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On 2019-08-24, 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!!. Stick a thinner hose on a regular vacuum cleaner: My electrolux came with all sorts of accessories; or maybe take it outdoors and blow the dust out with compressed air. -- When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it. |
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"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. All they'd need to do would be to add some little metal tracks inside. But then, of course, every company would do it differently and the types of filters would end up rivaling the types of printer ink. But using a filter that can be easily cut to size works pretty well. (You need something like wire snips to cut the plastic grid.) |
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Mayayana wrote:
It seems idiotic to me that computer cases don't come with similar, replaceable filters. All they'd need to do would be to add some little metal tracks inside. But then, of course, every company would do it differently and the types of filters would end up rivaling the types of printer ink. But using a filter that can be easily cut to size works pretty well. (You need something like wire snips to cut the plastic grid.) There are computer cases with a filter screen in the front of the computer. They're similar to the consistency of electric dryer filters for airflow. It is meant to handle the intake vent area on this case. http://sophstertoaster.com/wordpress...er-300x238.jpg You'd only have to clean it, oh, every three months. That's one of the first things I removed and put back in the computer case box when I got it :-/ Some people advocate using a nylon stocking material as a filter. And that would plug up in a week. Think of how much cleaning you'd have to do over the course of a year. Paul |
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"Paul" wrote
| | There are computer cases with a filter screen in the | front of the computer. They're similar to the consistency | of electric dryer filters for airflow. It is meant to handle | the intake vent area on this case. | | http://sophstertoaster.com/wordpress...er-300x238.jpg | | You'd only have to clean it, oh, every three months. | | That's one of the first things I removed and | put back in the computer case box when I got it :-/ | Really? You don't see the point of a filter? Furnace-type filters are very low resistance and don't plug up for a long time. But they provide enough filtering to stop things like hair and human dander. I find that only very fine dust gets through. And I can pretty much clean the filter just by running the vacuum over the intake holes. | Some people advocate using a nylon stocking material | as a filter. And that would plug up in a week. Think | of how much cleaning you'd have to do over the course | of a year. | Maybe you should think about moving out of that landfill. |
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On 25/08/2019 01.19, Paul wrote:
Cleaner Advise wrote: Looking for a vacuum cleaner to clean my machine from inside.Â* Less aggressive solution please as I don't want the cables to be sucked away and ruin my machine!!. .... The fastest way to clean a computer would be: 1) Outdoors. 2) A blower. But that also generates ESD. And we can't have that. Leave the computer connected but powered down: this connects the ground wire. And don't blow too much air. I have a blower that I bought on Amazon, I use it on keyboards mostly. My computer has an air filter-grid intake and does not get dust bunnies inside, no need for cleaning. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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On 25/08/2019 14.14, Mayayana wrote:
It seems idiotic to me that computer cases don't come with similar, replaceable filters. All they'd need to do would be to add some little metal tracks inside. But then, of course, every company would do it differently and the types of filters would end up rivaling the types of printer ink. But using a filter that can be easily cut to size works pretty well. (You need something like wire snips to cut the plastic grid.) Some do have filters or grids. You just have to pay more. Antec, for instance. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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"Carlos E.R." wrote
| | Some do have filters or grids. You just have to pay more. | Antec, for instance. | Yes, so says Paul. I wasn't aware of that. I usually pay $20 for a simple tin (or sheet steel?) case. I don't need anything that looks like a Klingon dashboard so I've never looked at the expensive boxes. |
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On 25/08/2019 15.39, Mayayana wrote:
"Carlos E.R." wrote | | Some do have filters or grids. You just have to pay more. | Antec, for instance. | Yes, so says Paul. I wasn't aware of that. I usually pay $20 for a simple tin (or sheet steel?) case. I don't need anything that looks like a Klingon dashboard so I've never looked at the expensive boxes. They have other advantages. Holes for more fans, several hard disk trays, cushioned for reduced vibration (the vibration from one hard disk head has been known to transmit to a nearby hard disk causing it more read errors via positioning head errors because of the vibration at the proper frequency). Double sheet sides, also to reduce sound transmission. Filtered air intakes I have seen in ruggerized computer cases intended for industrial environments. Imagine a machine shop, where the dust can be metallic particles! Some of those boxes you can put on the floor and jump over them, safely. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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Vacuum Cleaner
This works for me. Suction adjustable on mine.
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/EZ-SPARES-Att...93025095&psc=1 Also Home Depot https://www.homedepot.com/p/Think-Cr...g clsrc=aw.ds |
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