vacuum to clean your comp?

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pelikan

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No water in my air compressor. Works great. I've never drained it and its been years.
 

pillage2001

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Originally posted by: een
Hmmm...

Okay, so I can start vacuuming now, coz I can''t find any canned air anywhere, notice that I am in another part of the world... (Australia) Where do you guys get them anyway?

Staples, OM, OD?? OH wait...you're in Aussie land. :D Tried ebay???
 

Zepper

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Aussie land - too bad. Socialist countries don't allow their people such conveniences as canned air (or air conditioners to keep their old folks alive, etc. etc.)...
.bh.
:sun: !
 

Finnkc

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NO NO NO ... don't use vacuums in PCs lol ... yes 99 times out of 100 you will be ok but you can generate static and if you happen to touch on component inside while caring a static charge ... poof bye bye something.

Use compressed air and if you want to get rid of the dust put a vacuum up beside the PC so it sucks all the air born dust out.
 

Abhi

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I have put the vacuum on "blow" mode and used it on my comp many times...

Room gets dirty... but the comp gets clean :D
 

lucky9

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you mean you're supposed to clean the insides?

really had no problem, ever.

felt guilty after about four years and used the old hoover. no probs. just use common sense.

by the way, was a stock pc.:eek:
 

NFactor

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My dad used a vacum once when cleaning one of my first computers.

I think its safe to say that it never booted up again, but then again it was a Packard Bell.
 

Windogg

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No canned air for me. As someone stated earlier, it is just a great way to launch dust everywhere and push it deeper into places where is should not go.

I have used a vac for years on thosands (no exageration) of PCs with no ill effect.

Windogg