[HanoiLUG] Canned Air

[Tom Lancaster]

On 8/3/07, Nguyen Vu Hung <vu-hung at cnt.mxt.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Tom Lancaster さんは書きました:
> >
> > Then it's not just me. I find it strange that it's so hard to find in
> > a city with as much dust as Hanoi.
> See a business chance to import such tools from Taiwan...


Finally, my chance to make a million... dong.

>
> > I had a laptop that was constantly overheating until I took it back to
> > the US and cleaned it with a can of air. Since then it's been fine,
> > but I fear the dust of Hanoi's construction is building up again.
> >
> What parts do you want to clean? For a laptop, I think only the LCD and
> the keyboard  should be cleaned.


Perhaps if it's well designed, but I've found gross amounts of dust and crud
in laptop heatsinks and fans.
Of course you need to open the case to clean them properly, but as I
mentioned, I saved a laptop with this stuff.


>
> >
> >     If you see some buy 1-2 for me (unless they are too expensive by any
>
> >     standards)
> >
> >
> >
> > In the US they are about $5 a can. I would happily pay twice that for
> > a can here.
> >
> >
> If you can't find it in Hanoi, try this:
>
> http://www.cleaningdigitalcameras.com/methods.html
> It is called  "blower" used to blow  dust, see part 10 of the link above.
> I am sure if you post this question to http://nghethuatnhiepanh.com ,
> someone will reply you.



I think that's what David mentioned having.  Think of canned air as the
'nuclear' version of that. I'm not sure I would use it on a camera as the
dust would be moving fast enough to scratch things.

In the past I've been desperate enough to consider taking my laptop out to
the rua xe people to borrow their air compressor. I backed off when thinking
about how much water there must be in their air.

Tom

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