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Coating a Motherboard In Thermal Resin?
Bat Country writes "I've had an idea in the back of my head for some time (and I'm surely not the only one) that it would be a worthwhile project to coat a motherboard in thermally conductive electrically insulating resin — complete with all of its various components — for the purpose of immersion, shock resistance, whatever. I'm curious to find out if anyone's undertaken a similar project or if it's known to be a shockingly bad idea (due to shrinkage during the curing process) already. Thoughts?" If you've done anything similar (even an experiment that failed), how did you go about it?
How will smoking marijuana help him?
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...or just go buy mineral oil and spare yourself some strange looks at the vet's office.
This sounds almost exactly like something I did back in nineteen dickety two. We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word for "twenty." I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.
I'm a big tall mofo.
You: Hello Doctor! 5 gallons of your finest horse laxative please!
Vet: Oh, got a sick horse then? Are you it needs a laxative?
You: No, it's for me, eh I mean, it's for my computer!
Vet: Ah, the computer! I see. Say no more. *wink wink*
People have been running PC electronics submerged in mineral oil for decades.
Advantages:
1. Not too hard to do
2. If push comes to shove, you can can probably burn the PC in your fireplace or other suitable container to keep warm. Or just because you are pissed at it.
Problems:
1. It's messy.
2. The oil tends to creep up any wires to the outside world (capillary action?) and eventually show up at the other end.
3. I'm not sure if non-gas tight connectors are used in modern PCs, but if they are, they may be a problem.
4. It's messy.
Did I mention that it is messy?
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
Either you're new here, or you've misspelt "ethernet."
Kid-proof tablet..
Vet related too (I do the IT for a group of clinics) but not that relevant:
Customer: "Are gherkin (pickle) slices bad for dogs?"
Receptionist: "I'm not sure - I'll ask the vet...well, the vet says in small quantities they should not be harmful...has your dog swallowed one?"
Customer: "Oh, no, we just wondered whether we should remove it when we buy our dog a burger at the drive-thru"
AT&ROFLMAO
"a concrete vibrator isn't going to get what you need."
best slashdot quote ever.
Tomshardware had a computer in a fishtank full of mineral oil a bit ago. Works well but what a mess.
You're supposed to take the fish out of the tank first.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!