PC Fluff Record ?

[dinners]

Gave an old Dell PC a strip down and clean today - I think this may be some kind of record for fluff removal.

Anyway - now sparkly and shiny inside and out so not surprising to hear that it's now running faster, quieter and noticably cooler.

This was pristine looking before I started teasing the fluff from the vents front and bottom.

Inside before cleaning although I'd lifted out 3 or 4 handfulls of fluff by now.

 

[Daniel.Rowe]

Good lord! Lucky it didnt set the house on fire!

 

[ChrisH]

I must say thats a grubby one.

However I used to do work for the now long gone Ethel Austins. I learned very quickly that they had machines that grew belly button fluff ( Light grayish blue ) at an alarming rate.

Worst machine I've ever seen was in a Martin Mcolls back office, you couldn't see the chips on the mainboard for 15mm of dust. The shop was next to a main road and it must have sucked every ounce of dust in that it could find.

I took it outside the shop and blasted it with canned air. It was so bad the board was growing green fur. Miraculously it still worked.

 

[neil_g]

nice.. if you want to see a really bad case of fluff then strip down a machine thats been in our warehouse for the best part of 4 years. i want facemasks from the HSE lol

 

[dinners]

In then end what I removed added up to about 1/3rd of a dyson in volume.

I think it would have been a fire hazzard had I not cleaned it all out first.

Works a dream now though.