>Here Mr. Langa says, "It's generally best not to use a vacuum cleaner inside >a very dirty PC, though: Vacuuming heavy dust accumulations can generate a >static charge and may damage your PC's electronics. Blowing dust with >compressed air is messier, but carries a lower risk of static discharge >inside the case."
This makes no sense. Moving air is moving air. Blowing compressed gas is no more likely to generate static than sucking with a motor drive. If moving air caused static then the cooling fans that are in the computer would be creating static too. This is another of those urban legend things. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
