Isn't it funny how such a simple topic can cause so much debate? I hope you guys have a great Christmas.

Dave T2

OK, without comment, here's the procedure they follow at Lockheed Martin:

1. Blow it off underneath a high suction vacuum hood (no enclosed lens clusters here).
2. Vacuum the equipment for as long as it takes.
3. Spend a day or sometimes two with microsurgeon's glasses and instruments picking off each and every speck of remaining dust.

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...... or sometimes I just carry it out side and shake it with the covers off. :)

I've always taken my rig to the nearest garage and used the tyre compressor. First put a match into all cooling fans to stop them from spinning which may cause electric currents generated back into the mobo. Don't do this early in the morning because of excess on condensation build up inside the compressor which will turn dust into mud.

Your garage compressors quite likely have oil and rust-laden moisture in the air stream. Not recommended for anything more delicate than tires.

i throw the whole kit and caboodle into the washing machine on 4th cycle wash, then 15 minutes in the tumbler whether it needs it or not.....

Washing machine? Mine says dry clean only - otherwise it voids the warranty. Oh, and medium starch.

What Grazie's previous computer looked like before he blew the dust out (from the SUCCCESS! Got my MPEG2 rendering back! thread).

Mike

http://www.vegasusers.com/images/grazie-aut_0065.jpg
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I have been using one of these attachment kits for many years and it seems to work very well in combination with cans of compressed air or a small compressor with a blowpipe attachment. The kit has a regulator on it to change the vacuum pressure.

I have also heard that this inexpensive device works well also.

John

Uh, excuse me, dead humans?

Like I said before---trash the old one and get all new as the old one is 6 years behind technologically. Then you don't have to clean nothin.
JJK

I just take a dab of Oregon marionberrry jam and kind of spread it around the motherboard, then let the dog have at it. Clean as a whistle in five minutes. Oh, and if the dog keels over and dies, you know you've got a leaky electrolytic capacitor. Forewarned is forearmed.

Which brings up an observation: many of us on this board have a really weird sense of humor (self included). I wonder if it's related to video editing in general or Vegas in particular?

^^^ most mental giants are a little off kilter.

The rest use Final Cut. ;)

By "the rest" you mean those who are a lot off kilter.

Though I work in a data center with thousands of servers, I don't maintain them. I do, however, have a few workstations that I maintain because they are custom and the enterprise desktop group doesn't like to deal with non-standard systems. Since I'm the one who is going to get the call first, I do things like keep spare systems with the images for all of them readily available on a removable hard disk. So, when I get a call on Christmas Eve, I'll be in and out like Santa Claus. Ho! Ho! Ho! (Apparently, you can't be jolly on this forum.)
Because most of these workstations run 24/7, I occasionally take them out to the Receiving Area and blow them out with the "blow side" of the data center vacuum cleaner. I usually do this on nice sunny days when I'd rather not be inside. I just let the dust fly toward the camera repair center across the driveway.


The camera center is a warranty station for Canon and Nikon as well as other brands.
But Hey!

I'm really trying hard to figure out the physics of the difference between air blowing in one direction versus air blowing in the other direction. (Blowing/Sucking)
JJK