Re: blowing vs. vacuuming

A friend was in Vietnam many years ago. They had trouble figuring why it
took longer to get from work to the barracks than the opposite direction
until some wise guy figured it was because work sucked and the barracks blew.

At 04:34 PM 11/14/2005, Michael Sinatra wrote:
>Greg Merritt wrote:
>>>If at all possible, I recommend that you power down the machine, take it
>>>outside, and use a can of compressed air to blow out the dust.
>>>
>>>If you dust it out inside the building, the dust will just fly around the
>>>room.
>>>
>>>If you do use the vacuum, just be sure not to vacuum up any jumpers
>>>off the
>>>motherboard.
>>
>>Excellent point about the jumpers, but I tend to prefer vacuuming over
>>compressed air cans whenever possible. Vacuuming grabs and eliminates
>>the stuff you don't want. Blowing tends to just scatter the junk all
>>around, and can even work it farther in to where you don't want it.
>>Not to mention that bottles of compressed air don't have air in them...
>>yucko... and those empty bottles just make extra waste.
>
>Why choose blowing _or_ vacuuming when you can have both? Astute
>Micronetters have no doubt noticed that on Berkeley Way, just north of
>University Ave, there are two business establishments, conveniently
>located next door to each other: Blow Salon and the Berkeley Vacuum
>Center. In order to avoid massive air pressure imbalances in the City of
>Berkeley, these two establishments must both maintain the same hours of
>operation. When these businesses are open, I simply mount dirty circuit
>boards, network equipment, etc., in the space directly between Blow Salon
>and Berkeley Vacuum Center, and within 15 seconds, they're clean as
>new! All of the dust is sucked directly into the HEPA-certified Vacuum
>Center, both from the sucking action of that establishment, combined with
>the positive pressure from Blow.
>
>The only drawback is that you have to carefully secure the equipment
>you're trying to clean, or it will get blown into the Vacuum Center, and
>you'll have to wait until closing time to remove your device from the
>massive HEPA filter.
>
>michael
>
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