Rust!

[NxB]

Re: Rust!

My cheap china cases all rusted. I see it all the time.

[PCBONEZ]

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I have caused surface rust on the unpained metal on a few PC's I have owned over the years. The rust was caused by the sweat/salt on my hands during our hot humid nasty days of summer. I always wash and dry my hands first now not to mention I put central A/C in this dump a few years ago.
As many of you may know, I'm an animal lover....No I'm not a member of PETA and never will be. Some animals just have to be used for medical research. I just hate the people who abuse their animals that they keep as so called pets! I'm off my topic again...
Anyway other things around here are causing rust now. My wife has this nasty little male chihuahua. I mean he is a nice loving little doggie and all but he pees on everything! I just happened to look at an old Pavilion 6530 that had its cover removed, and its rusted all to hell now! Boo Boo has been using it as his personal leg cocking station. The case is a mess but the parts that I wanted from it are still good. I moved that one so now he has started on a home built fast AMD PC that also has its cover off. Most of the stuff in that one I'm sending to RatDude after I clean and dry it. Got to clean up the case too as I'm going to build an AMD K6/2 450 mhz in it.
Now just the other day my surge protector under my desk smoked out. My cat did that one. I hope that she got a good shock to her equipment while she was at work under my desk! Maybe I should rename her "Dottie Electra."

Get an old AT PSU.
Put cookie sheet on floor by pee target.
Energize PSU.
Attach a ground to the cookie sheet and a +12v to the target.
Pee is a conductor.
+12v won't do real damage but will definitely imprint in brain memory cells.
.

[c_hegge]

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Oh and seeing as Sydney had a half decent dust storm this morning... I'm expecting to see a wide range of PCs come in next week with iron rich dust around the fans. Muhahaha

I live on the North Coast of NSW and also got the dust. The dust filter on my Antec twelve hundred case is now red!

[Wizard]

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Rusty TVs sure. from swimming pool area even TV is on the wall mount or ceiling mount.

Cheers, Wizard

[ratdude747]

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remove all the guts. sand off the rust, and if you must, spay paint the inside (remove internal cables and plastic front). then reassemble. that should fix it.

i once did that to a proteva case with a rusted bottom. i had no orbital sander so it was a pain to sand. if you can access a sander, do so and use that. besides, a non-silver inside of a case might look good...

[NxB]

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It will come back.

[PCBONEZ]

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Wire brush but don't remove it all, just the loose flaky stuff.
Treat with Klean-strip Rust Converter as per directions.
Paint with this stuff. http://www.dupli-color.com/products/wheel.html

Sticks to [cleaned] steel, aluminum, and plastic without a primer - and I mean STICKS.
.

[weirdlookinguy]

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That's Apple's 360° scroll wheel...

Ah yes, the mouse that makes me want to chuck it out the window and castrate its designer every time I use it! Outperformed by my $10 Logitech that I impulse-bought at a register endcap from Fry's two years ago!

Sorry Keri, all in good nature here, it's just that my blood pressure goes up every time I see that stupid mouse.

[ratdude747]

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Ah yes, the mouse that makes me want to chuck it out the window and castrate its designer every time I use it! Outperformed by my $10 Logitech that I impulse-bought at a register endcap from Fry's two years ago!

Sorry Keri, all in good nature here, it's just that my blood pressure goes up every time I see that stupid mouse.

yes, i hear you. those mice SUCK. no chorded clicks or true right clicks. it the most popular violation of the KISS principle. an overpriced paperweight in my opinion.

[Junk Parts]

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If you want "Sucks!" try my 5 button wheel mouse from Dynex. It has never worked in it five button mode, and the software that came with it was written by 3rd grade kids in Main Land China! What a POS!

[PCBONEZ]

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I did an experiment with that rust converter stuff back when I first heard about it 15+ years ago.
I took a rusty chunk of angle iron and treated it.
I didn't paint it at all. Just used the converter.
Then I filled a jar with sea-salts and water.
Put the treated metal in the jar and added water as it evaporated off - for 3 months.
It didn't form new rust in the jar or after I took it out and tossed it back in the scrap pile either.

The control was a piece of un-rusted angle iron that was sanded and painted with three coats of Rust-oleum.
That one started rusting in a matter of days in the salt water and by 3 months the paint was bubbling up.
.

[KeriJane]

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Still liking the Mighty Mouse over here. Especially for Photoshop.

Tip: Keep your fingers clean! It goes for quite a long time if no dirty fingers are used.

Cookie crumbs or even salt in a Mighty Mouse is bad.
One should follow proper etiquette and never eat whilst computering.


Scrolling all up and down and diagonal like nobody's business,
Keri


PS. I never call your mouse (or even your rat) bad names... why all the hatred towards mine?

PPS. Not a single trace of rust on ANY of my Apple Computer Corporation Components. I'll keep you updated regularly.

[ratdude747]

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you just admitted a major flaw of the mighty mouse. it is not durable, as a simple bit of dirt can kill it... but all my mice can take a beating! the mighty mouse is good only if you are an obsessive neat freak...

[ratdude747]

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I moved that one so now he has started on a home built fast AMD PC that also has its cover off. Most of the stuff in that one I'm sending to RatDude after I clean and dry it. Got to clean up the case too as I'm going to build an AMD K6/2 450 mhz in it."

why not use the 533? its more performance and i have it pre-set. that speed is not in the table; i had to calculate it using fsb settings and multipliers.

im just saying that it would be dum to take less spec unless you want to attepmt an overclock.

[KeriJane]

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you just admitted a major flaw of the mighty mouse. it is not durable, as a simple bit of dirt can kill it... but all my mice can take a beating! the mighty mouse is good only if you are an obsessive neat freak...

Hi RatDude!

Oh, it doesn't kill it. You just turn it upside down and scroll away until the dirt falls out. Good as new. Except dirtier.

Oh! Cool! I'm an obsessive neat freak?
News to me. Maybe you could tell my mom that?

But my Mighty Mouse is clean and happy so maybe that's what's important?


Time to go scrub that bathtub before I get grossed out,
Keri

PS. It's still not rusting at all. Not even a tiny bit.

PPS. I'm gonna start a new diet fad! "The Mighty Mouse Diet"
It's based on not eating at the computer, which causes the mouse to keep going.

[gdement]

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PPS. Not a single trace of rust on ANY of my Apple Computer Corporation Components. I'll keep you updated regularly.

Me neither. But mine's made of plastic.

It did turn yellow though.
That's the newest Apple I know how to use.

[weirdlookinguy]

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Not a single trace of rust in any of my PC's either. Except they didn't cost upwards of $2k and come with shitty mice that need cleaning every other day and lack physical buttons, and they didn't require me to put down $125 for an OS upgrade every year.

[KeriJane]

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Geez-O

People in this thread are getting all jealous about my superior (non-rusty) Apple Computer Corporation stuff too!




Have Fun,

Keri
Who never calls other peoples computers cruddy and overpriced.
Well, hardly ever.

[ratdude747]

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yes, you dont call us that because you wouldn't have a lot of room to talk


anyway, my 5 button mouse does me fine...



i found 2 of them at purdue surplus last year. i paid 10 for 2. i LOVE them. comfy, and functional. i even crammed one in my netbook bag... lol...


beats a mighty mouse in my book...

[weirdlookinguy]

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Not superior.

Just expensive and introduced at an overhyped keynote by a douchebag in a turtleneck.