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Making Your PC Dust Free?
Kranfer asks: "Recently, I cleaned out my PC to find not only dust... but also feathers from my from rather large parrots. I have struggled with keeping my PC dust free for years, but I have yet to find a workable solution that will keep the dust from stacking up every few months, inside my PCs at home. I was hoping that my peers on Slashdot might have thought up some innovative solutions to this common problem with any PC. How does one cut down on the dust entering a PC and sticking around? I run an Antec File Server Case with each and every fan slot taken blowing out, and even one of those Harddrive coolers and PCI slot coolers. What have you done to rid yourself of the dust and pet dander inside your PCs?"
Train the parrots to clean the PC.
Heh, this question is not as difficult as it seems. All off the shelf stuff.
.... You gotta have a spoiler).
Sure, you need positive pressure in the case, but think Auto Shop!
They sell high volume paper/oil air filters. The oil traps the airborne dust particles quite effectively, and they are easy to replace.
So, just find an old turbo, install a brushless motor from a RC plane and controller with a servo activator PCB (many hobby places sell these) so you can adjust the speed - or even control it straight from the PC.
Use this as the impellor, with the Turbo attached to the case (mock up the back end, or even use it as the exhaust) and just attach an Auto Pod Filter...
Don't forget to add "Phulli Sik" stickers to the side of the case, and maybe a few logo's on the front.... AMD, Nvidia, etc. Attached to the drive bay door at a slight angle. (With an Intel sticker cut in half, upside down, on the spoiler
Bonus points if the Turbo spools when you use a pedal accelerator on driving games.
Oh, and wear your cap on backwards at Lan parties.
Well, it might sound funny, but this would actually work. Of course, you can buy car air filters as flat panels also, and the oil comes in a spray can, but that's just cheating now!.
GrpA
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Perfect solution!
This is a off topic, but I thought that I'd share. When I was a PC tech, I had a customer come in because his hard drive went bad. It turns out that this customer ran a dry-cleaning business. This machine was the one that he used to do his books etc. When I opened the case, I could not see *any* components at all. It was a solid wall of lint. Thank God that this was around the time that 286's ruled, so there were no fans inside the case, just heatsinks. I was suprized that the power supply didnt catch fire.
:-)
I walked it over to the auto-repair shop that shared the parking lot, and used their compressed air to blow it out... outside of course