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Thread ID: 42265	2004-02-06 01:14:00	heatsink cleaning	Nodrog (4738)	Press F1

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213124	2004-02-07 07:52:00	Gosh, may as well join in too. Graham is quite correct IMHO, (as a retired scientist/physicist/engineer or WHY :) ) Anyway with the humidity we have been having the last week or two over a fairly wide area, you'd have been hard pushed to have rubbed any electrons off anything and had them floating around. CMOS chips when soldered into a pcb, and then plugged into a main board are not going to be very static sensitive, if at all, under normal conditions. You could also argue that sucking with a vacuum cleaner will draw any charged particles/ionised gases into the cleaner :) Was it Metla who mentioned an antistatic brush? Anyway that would be a good idea. A brush made of conducting bristles, like the record cleaning brushes that you could get some years ago. You do get these urban myths, like the direction of water flow down a plug-hole between N and S hemispheres, complete hogwash!!!	Terry Porritt (14)
213125	2004-02-07 07:56:00	> You do get these urban myths, like the direction of > water flow down a plug-hole between N and S > hemispheres, complete hogwash!!! Reminds me of a friend from the US... we were in Fiji and she asked "Does the sun set in the West in the Southern Hemisphere?" I replied "No, the bottom half of the Earth spins the opposite direction". Unfortunately, about half an hour later, I felt so sorry for her I just had to tell her the truth... and rub her face in it :D Mike.	Mike (15)
213126	2004-02-07 14:23:00	Well thanks for the support fellas ;) With brushes aren't you merley just spreading the dust around, not actually getting rid of it? Meanwhile I'll continue to use my vacuum cleaner. Hasn't fried anything yet. I even accidentally touched the MB a few times, it still works. Besides if your just vacuuming the top of the heatsink, what are you going to fry? The heatsink? :O	PoWa (203)
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