<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings ( + )!( + )<div><br></div><div>Jo that's very interesting, because I used to work in manufacturing and all mother boards after going through the "Wave-Soldering" would then go through a "Water-bath" where all of the installed parts got wet.</div><div><br></div><div>I have been using compress air and caned compressed air on computers for more then <b>35 years</b>. My first computer was the Titan I ICBM Ground Guidance computer, and I have never had any failures that could be trace back to condensation from compressed air.</div><div><br></div><div>However I strongly recommend using compress canned air, as there isn't any moisture in the can air, your storage after using the canned air must have been a location that had a high relative humidity.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div> - Harry -</div><div><div>ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø</div><div><br></div></div><div><br><div><div><div>On Feb 15, 2009, at 11:41 AM, J.M.P.Hissel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 15-02-2009 18:20, Eric Wood, <a href="mailto:ewood@izoom.net">ewood@izoom.net</a>, wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Anybody know whether taking compressed air to it<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">will clear up any problems? Or does that just keep it from breaking<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sooner?<br></blockquote><br>NEVER use a can of compressed air with computer parts because it always will<br>produce some condensations. I have made a list of stuff, ruined by using<br>canned air, I met in the last 12 yrs maintaining around 240 Macs for around<br>80 clients: 39 dead bodies!!<br>Always only use to blow out such a one-hand bellows with or without a brush.<br>I myself prefer and only use such a one-hand mini-vacuumcleaner for this<br>kind of jobs. Will be clear: With the mvc you don't blow around all the dust<br>etc. but you remove all dirt by sucking it in your mvc-bag!!!<br>And a mvc will be very clever for cleaning keyboards, cameras etc.<br>And they are very cheap (around € 12 = around US$ 15), use rechargeable<br>batteries, have an easily to clean dirt-bag and don't have static problems.<br><br>HTH,<br><br>Jo Hissel<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>G4 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>