Desktops forum: Controlling dust ...inexpensive.....

John:

If you purchase a hot glue gun ($1.00 at Dollar Store) and just tack your filters in place, then they can be replaced very easy. The beauty of the hot glue gun is that you can peel the glue off anytime you choose. You can tack them inside of your panels with the air holes and it has a secondary effect. It will muffle some of the noise.

Norm

I asked a man who had done 20years in US Airforce with computers, and then a stretch with IBM, and now has a computer repair shop to fight off retirement boredom, and he said forget about dust. "Start stirring it up and get it jammed in between connections."

And have never had a problem even though dust builds up.

I had a computer that I thought had gone totally South. On boot up it would go so far and ask for an installiation disk and then would not recognize the CD. I decided that it couldn't hurt to open the computer and check the connections before taking it to the repair shop. When I saw all the dust on the outside grills and inside, I decided to vaccum. The vaccum removed gobs of dust. Then tried the boot up and everything worked like a charm. Now my motto is "When all else fails--clean".

Hey... why not just tape a filter over the fan intake?
No cost or screwing-on... easy to remove if filter is washable. Tape is cheap!
budtillery

Will the thin, (1/8" to 3/16" thick, 99-cent, foam filters like Home Depot has work okay? Dust is a major problem where I am & I want to protect my first-ever computer, but I am concerned about using the wrong thing & overheating it.

Well, I went the more elaborate method. I work for a filter factory as a machinist so I couldn't do anything the easy way. I doubled up and put a second case fan on the side to pull more air in and so it would pull it easier thru the filter mentioned below. Then made a little bracket to mount a piece of redi-bolt to so it stuck out about 4 - 5". It looks like an air filter mount on an old car engine. I cut a piece of 1/8" plexiglass into an 8" circle, hole in the middle for the redi-bolt and a wing nut. Then I searched Wal-Mart for the right size air filter. I found a Fram CA148 for 3 or 4 bucks. I'm a gearhead (car lover, do it yourselfer) an it looks kind cool. I can feel the air flow into it when I put my hand on it. Works great!! So I can blow it off periodically or toss it for a new one when I feel the need. Hope this helps someone who wants to do it the hard way.

Wow, I'm just too er.. what's the word for it? (Can't think right now...) so can someone like, give me a list of cheap parts and a step by step, organized list of how to do it?

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