Question re sata cables

[David Fletcher]

On Wednesday 06 Oct 2010, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 
> *NO*! You are joking of course? Say you are...please say yes :-) . Of 
> course you are....you're one of Ric's gang, aren't you? :-) .
> 
> A brush with natural bristles like horse hair but not with artificial 
> bristles to clean up some of the accumulated gunk and then some blowing 
> with CANNED air - but NOT a 90psi air hose! (unless you use it from a 
> safe distance like 4 feet or so away) - would get the job done. You will 
> need to remove any fans (except those in the PSU) and give them a good 
> clean with the brush/canned air (possibly even disassemble them and 
> grease/oil the spindles?).
> 

I _always_ use an air line to blow the muck out of the heat sinks. Why buy 
silly little cans of air at great expense when I've got a nice big air can 
that pressurises itself for a couple of pennies worth of electricity?

I don't open the regulator out to 90psi though, probably more like 40 or 50, 
and I hold the fans still before blasting air through them.

Everything always continues to work for me after doing this.

BTW I didn't know it was possible to dismantle computer fans.

Dave