@Doomed_Daniel@psychicparrot42 I’ve been warned off using vacuum cleaners because of the static build up (particles going up long plastic tubes generates static) but I don’t know how realistic an issue it is - perhaps that’s more of a issue in drier climates. But that’s why people suggest blowers rather than vacuums
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interesting - I don't think I ever fried hardware that way, but I also try not to touch any easily damageable components with the vacuum cleaner (I assume that touching the CPU cooler heatsink isn't too dangerous?).
But I live in northern Germany, so it's not very dry here either
I think I heard that rotating the fans too much can be dangerous because it turns their motors into dynamos? But that's a problem with both blowing and vacuuming..
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(not sure how relevant that is in practice, either; I block the fans with a finger just in case - but back when my family had a brick factory, we had industrial compressed air there, which really had punch, and I used it to clean my PCs without blocking the fans and it never broke anything, so 🤷♂️)
Have you ever actually washed an entiere motherboard in the bathtub with some cleaning stuff and brushes and then carefully dried it all with an air drier ?
I was trying to "mimic" some industrial process .. industrially I know they have particular water-based solutions. I am quite sure that "folk remedies" like using isopropyl alcohol to clean electronic is probably not the best but I experimented with various things.
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