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Inventions & wrinkles
Thought a little thread here on what one can do themselves for improving their machines.
I do like fiddling and thinking up stuff and would be glad of others to share theirs too.
My first "tip" is when cleaning cooling fans is to remove the dust and grime with methylated spirits over a bath with hogs hair brush (all very cheap to buy hogs hair as the poly ones cause static) let dry and then apply some of that car vinyl embellishing spray either with the spray or cloth then wipe down and gently polish. The blades wil be super smooth and the air pass over them and the venturi far more efficiently. Therefore increasing (only moderately of course but even so more) the air in or out of your machine.
I did think of fitting model aircraft spinners the the incoming side of the fan but that is going to take some working out ie extra power needed to spin the fan and centreing.
If you use that furniture polish (spray form) you get the same result and some actially have an anti static effect therefore reducing the fast build up of dust on the fan blades.
One can also use this on the larger flat surfaces within the case fr the same reason, being careful not to ove do the application and it make removal so much easier the next time.
Plus I have started using more inake fans than out fans to produce an "positive" pressure within the case the rartionale being that the air inside the case is at a slightly increased pressure to the outside "ambient" pressure so keeping dust from entering even the smallest of chinks in the case. This came to me after working in operating thaetres where they employ this type of internal "positive" pressure to keep out any particulates or bacteria laden air. The incoming air of course has to be filtered well. But more of that next time.