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[Jetster]

Question about cleaning filthy components. Can I use distilled water without worrying about any ill effects?

Just make sure it's dry afterwords, like a week or two later before you plug it in

Everything is relative, so yes, distilled water will conduct electricity--but very very little compared to city water. But there are impurities on the parts so really it doesn't have to be distilled

 

[Prince Valiant]

Just make sure it's dry afterwords, like a week or two later before you plug it in

Good to know, thanks.

I should have quite a few pictures for this thread if I remember to take them before cleaning .

 

[Beastie]

I expected you to kill it with fire...

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure .

Fixed by me and a wet wipe

Seriously though, it's cleaned up quite nicely.

 

[micropage7]

It will be 20 years old next year and has been in use every single day. I have never cleaned the inside though i do occasionally give it a good shake and see what surprises fall out.

The last time i open and clean and shake it.. I lost a key.. it took me 2 days to find it.. Sometimes it is interesting how people couldnt clean it for years As long as it runs

 

[biffzinker]

Sometimes it is interesting how people couldnt clean it for years As long as it runs

Reminds me of the filthy keyboards I see at work. Always makes me want to use a sanitizing wipe before I lay a finger on the keyboard, and mouse.

 

[verycharbroiled]

It will be 20 years old next year and has been in use every single day. I have never cleaned the inside though i do occasionally give it a good shake and see what surprises fall out.

did anything that fell out wave back at you?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

did anything that fell out wave back at you?

i smoked most of the shit that fell out

 

[jboydgolfer]

i do occasionally give it a good shake and see what surprises fall out.

I did that once ,and bacon bits & nerds fell out ...I have no idea where they came from

I wish I was more active when I still had my old Dell keyboard, and trackball mouse. I remember after retiring that keyboard I ceremoniously parted with it by destroying it and inside was enough food to sustain a person for at least a couple days the mouse was not much better

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Whoops

 

[biffzinker]

How did you manage that Caps?

 

[silentbogo]

How did you manage that Caps?

Knowing CAPS, I'd say lots of effort and dedication to the task!

But I've seen worse. Last year I was fixing a HDD, which suffered damage from an exact same crappy cable. But instead of broken clamp he had broken pins. That failed attachment mechanism held it so hard, that 2-3 contacts on the SATA connector were ripped from the PCB on the drive. Had to replace the whole connector from the donor HDD to save the day...
Sry, but no picz...

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Mainly by being stupid.

The pc is on a plank of wood with the hdd on the psu. When i picked it up the hdd slid off.

 

[EntropyZ]

Knowing CAPS, I'd say lots of effort and dedication to the task!

But I've seen worse. Last year I was fixing a HDD, which suffered damage from an exact same crappy cable. But instead of broken clamp he had broken pins. That failed attachment mechanism held it so hard, that 2-3 contacts on the SATA connector were ripped from the PCB on the drive. Had to replace the whole connector from the donor HDD to save the day...
Sry, but no picz...

I remember trying to cram a 3x Windforce mounted card in the Cooler Master HAF 912 while having the extra HDD cage in place it was completely filled and I had to take it out to fit the card first, some of the drives used angled SATA connectors (which I completely forgot about), I was lazy to remove all of the data/power cables, so I tried sliding the cage out, which didn't budge at first because one of the angled connectors was touching against a part of the case, then I pulled harder and realized something snapped off... It was one of the SATA connections off a 3TB NAS drive.

When I saw that port broken, cold sweat and fear kicked in. It was not pleasant. Luckily only the pins got bent but the plastic keying was broken. So I stuck it inside the cable, carefully bent the pins in a way they would still connect and plugged the cable back into the drive, it worked, but now every time you move the back panel you risk possibility of losing the drive in BIOS or Windows.

Every SINGLE time I try to rush something I end up dun f***ing it up. I keep telling myself I learned not to do it, but I still do it from time to time without thinking first. This is the number 1 reason why some hardware that I have gets destroyed.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I remember trying to cram a 3x Windforce mounted card in the Cooler Master HAF 912 while having the extra HDD cage in place it was completely filled and I had to take it out to fit the card first, some of the drives used angled SATA connectors (which I completely forgot about), I was lazy to remove all of the data/power cables, so I tried sliding the cage out, which didn't budge at first because one of the angled connectors was touching against a part of the case, then I pulled harder and realized something snapped off... It was one of the SATA connections off a 3TB NAS drive.

When I saw that port broken, cold sweat and fear kicked in. It was not pleasant. Luckily only the pins got bent but the plastic keying was broken. So I stuck it inside the cable, carefully bent the pins in a way they would still connect and plugged the cable back into the drive, it worked, but now every time you move the back panel you risk possibility of losing the drive in BIOS or Windows.

Every SINGLE time I try to rush something I end up dun f***ing it up. I keep telling myself I learned not to do it, but I still do it from time to time without thinking first. This is the number 1 reason why some hardware that I have gets destroyed.

The same thing hapenned to me too a while ago so i did this

The above pictures are a re enactment.

 

[dorsetknob]

The pc is on a plank of wood with the hdd on the psu. When i picked it up the hdd slid off.

was the Plank of wood Thick

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

not as thick as me.......metal on metal is never a clever combo.

Shes gonna go mental when she gets home....the conservatory didnt look like this when she went out........



Edit
in this pic you can see
DFI Lanparty X58
ASUS ROG ii X 58
ASUS P6 Deluxe X 58

 

[jboydgolfer]

Mainly by being stupid.

ive had that happen several times, i just removed the clip, and continued using the cable, it didnt cause a problem, unless there was a great deal of movement.

btw, it reminds me of the entrance to the cave of the "killer bunny" in MP's & the holy grail.....like something that eats PC's lives in the room in your pics

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Oooooo errrr

 

[silentbogo]

@CAPSLOCKSTUCK , did Ridley Scott hire you to do decorations for the new Alien movie?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Dunno...i havent heard back yet.

 

[DR4G00N]

Snap, crackle, pop.

 

[Sasqui]

Snap, crackle, pop.


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I find that last picture the most disturbing. I think solder is supposed to be used sparingly ;P

 

[DR4G00N]

I find that last picture the most disturbing. I think solder is supposed to be used sparingly ;P

It's not all solder, there's a piece of braided copper under the caps that was used to repair the 12V input power plane.

It works fine though, it was still working fine beforehand too.

 

[Bones]

It reminds me of the entrance to the cave of the "killer bunny" in MP's & the holy grail.....like something that eats PC's lives in the room in your pics

You haven't seen inside my benchshack..... Looks like trolls have taken up residence BUT it is used for storage too so....

 

[Sasqui]

It's not all solder, there's a piece of braided copper under the caps that was used to repair the 12V input power plane.

It works fine though, it was still working fine beforehand too.

I'm guessing all three caps shouldn't been gobbed together. Great that it works.