Unable to determine if it was the heat stressed plastic to blame, or the shop air compressor... I wasn't the one manning the compressor at the time.
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I have never used a compressor to clean electronics out. Of course the Navy instilled that in me. Working on aircraft, they made you vaccumn it as blowing it just moves it somewhere else (where you can't see it). I know a computer isn't a matter of life if something gets blowedd under the board and shorts out, but I have always vaccumned the computers and all other electronics I work on. Amazing how much and often smokers need their stuff cleaned. The tar is sticky and the dust sticks to it. I use a regular house vaccumn with attachments that have little brushes and extension to get into small places. Then I wipe the fan blades off with cuetips and denatured alcohol. -
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This is the first time I've ever seen one of these come apart like this, and I don't even know that it was related to using the compressor. I'll continue to blow my PCs out with 60 PSI.Ludicrous gibs!
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reminds me of a jet after a bird strike...sigpic
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I have never seen one blow apart with an air compressor and I do this everyday for a living... The only thing I could think of is if the plastic was very very old and brittle Fun to look at though
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At first I thought maybe the plastic was old and brittle, and then a cockroach found its way into the fan, and everything shattered, but I found no solid non-fan material anywhere in the PSU. It shall remain a mystery.Ludicrous gibs!
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Compressed air works a lot better than vacuum. I'd only use a vacuum if the "outside" was unavailable to redistribute the dust in.
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Ouch. The only time I've seen that happen was to a normal fan (not a hamster wheel one) when I was testing it out near a window and it sucked up the curtains.I love putting bad caps and flat batteries in fire and watching them explode!!
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I was cleaning about 30 or so computers with these fans about 3 weeks ago. Used 50-80 PSI and none blew up like that. Interesting...
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my guess would be it got brittle and busted one blade, which took out another, which snowballed into total fan failure.sigpic
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