Comments on: COMPRESSED AIR!

By: Miia Ranta » Yay for teenage hobbies

Miia Ranta » Yay for teenage hobbies — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:55:00 +0000

[...] hobbies come into the story – I had my trustworthy sobel brushes at hand. I don’t have compressed air, but I do have my watercolour brushes. To be honest, I don’t think compressed air would have [...]

By: Witold

Witold — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:41:06 +0000

Mez,
I know, I use that wiki a lot. However, I was speaking about cards I actually used by myself. I don’t want to speak about things I didn’t use.

By: Emme

Emme — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:02:51 +0000

+1 for the danger of static discharge.
Another danger is that you can blow (possibly conductive) dirt below parts. I usually take a vaccuum cleaner to get rid of most of the dust (but _not_ on any PCBs!), and the use the already recommended paintbrush for the fine work.

As for the colour: Do you smoke?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:11:24 +0000

I guess compressed air would do the job, but why not suck the dust out with the vaccuum cleaner? That would give you the advantage of not blowing dust all around your room.

By: Mez

Mez — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:27:02 +0000

El Parry, but it has to be a rubber mallet so that when you whack a hard disk to break it and return it just before it’s warranty expires, it doesn’t leave marks

Auzon – I doubt it was rust

Anton – I’ll get that recorded for you – what you need it for?

David, it was a Belkin G+ Mimo Desktop Card (Part #: F5D9000ed

CombatWombat – I was more worried about the liquidised gas. However, I have worked with it before, and have done that before, this is a trusted brand by me. – Also, a fine brush would have taken forever, and also not been able to reach some places the compressed air could (and needed to)

Witold/David – I find that https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported is a useful place to find info on what cards are supported

By: Witold

Witold — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:14:29 +0000

David,
I use some cards on different linux machines and can say that Atheros based cards work very good on Linux. One I bought recently is a Zyxel G170S.

By: CombatWombat

CombatWombat — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:22:50 +0000

Martin, just a word of caution…

some compressed air is highly static-charged, which can be extremely dangerous as you know, to your pc innards. I recommend a fine paintbrush, as it removes more dust more effectively, without spreading it around so much. Best brushes are natural hair (horse/boar).

I have seen orange dust before where there was a problem with sawdust. So I suggest checking for borer beetle / termite/ someone cutting wood nearby.

By: David Edmundson

David Edmundson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:17:22 +0000

Could you tell us which PCI wireless card you got? I’m on the lookout for one for my Desktop and want one that works in Linux.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:05:40 +0000

“If it can’t be fixed with compressed air, you might as well replace it”

I think I just got me a new soundbyte

By: Auzon

Auzon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:21:16 +0000

The orange dust was probably rust. It surprises me that this only happened after you got the new card, though.