On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, C Falconer wrote: ... > or to just attract and hold dust.. Oil is generally conductive too.
With all due respect: No, it is not, at least not generally, and also not electrically, and even thermally it is not really conducting very well. Neither does oil have many free electrons nor ions which could contribute to conductivity. I would probably be more concerned about getting a fire inside the machine after oiling rapidly rotating parts in close neigbourhood to hot parts. I remember one guy who highly overclocked his CPU and submerged the whole motherboard in an oil basin to cool it. My comment was that he should be careful not to get too much oil on the connectors... and then I think due to the high viscosity of the oil and the shallow basin convection was probably not strong. However, there are oil-cooled high-voltage transformers IIRC. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
