Yo compacters everywhere, Our "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks about several aspects of cleaning a compact case. I will respond to clarify my experience with a commercial dishwasher at high temperature:
The commercial dishwasher I speak of is one of those where you load removable trays with whatever you want washed, slide the tray sideways into the washer, slam down the "in" door, and push the button that begins the aggressive cleaning cycle with 195 degree farenheit water (home hot water in the U.S. is usually 120 farenheit adjustable up to 180 farenheit so this 195 is HOT!). At the end of the cleaning cycle, you open the "out" side door sliding it up and drag out the tray sideways with your clean, Clean, CLEAN Mac case parts. With the 195 degree water, we have never warpped a part. Two points I must clarify: In this kind of a commercial dishwasher, adding detergent is a manual act. I have never used detergent. It hasn't been needed. The only stains that make it through the dishwasher are the variety that detergent is not really great at getting off. Dishwasher detergent, even the rather caustic commercial kind, has a rather narrow spectrum of crap that it will remove. It ! is good at oils and long chain proteins, but poor with inks and really good industrial adhesives. A second point to clarify is that this variety of commercial dishwasher has no drying cycle at all. When removed immediately after washing, the heat from the 195 degree water alone drys things fine and fast. I set the Mac pieces out to dry their crannies and crevasses for an hour or so. I have never lost or damaged any of the rubber foot pads, the Apple logo, silkscreened printing, nor any other important little things of the Mac cases sent through the dishwasher. And, using my very cheap bench radio and my ear as an uncalibrated tester, I have found no discernable shift in EMI after a run through the dishwasher. I understand the ear is able to detect a 3db volume shift. Well, any change in the EMI shielding wrought by the dishwasher is less than 3db. I suspect there is none. I did fiddle about once with a compact case in a home dishwasher. I had to remove the upper rack just to fit in one compact cover. Again, I did not use detergent. And I did not use the dry cycle heating out of the very concern of warpping a cover. I have no idea if this dry cycle will actually warp a cover. I may try this with a junk case just too see. As the volunteer kitchen staff at the senior center are all to happy to wash the occassional Mac case for me, I keep sending them empty Mac cases to clean. Maybe half the kitchen volunteers are Mac users so they are personally interested here. One thing is for sure; volunteers love to help other volunteers. The rest of my Mac cleaning experience becomes opinion of technique and choice of cleaning products. Our FAQ covers these issues. Our Jeff Garrison is the true mad scientist of Mac cleaning always trying new things. If this claening thread goes that way, I'll share mine. Adam, I hope I've clarified my dishwasher experience to help you achieve a clean Mac. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
