Altair Fan

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Tony Duell wrote:

>>harddrives go up on me (Admittingly, IBM DEATHSTARTS), one
>>motherboard that ate ram for Breakfast!
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> Now, you see, I'd have wanted to figure out what was wrong with said 
> motherboard _before_ it damaged more than one set of RAMs.

Hang on though, a motherboard is a cheap(-ish) off-the-shelf component.
What do you do if a bearing goes bad?  Do you buy a new bearing, or do 
you build up the track with weld, grind it back, and have it hard chromed?

Me, I keep an SKF catalogue handy...

>>I understand the urges to be able to repair your equipment,
>>but dosn't it stop somewhere? :)
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> I guess it does. I don't -- yet -- haev a clean room to repair 
> winchester-type hard drives. Although I have considered some kind of 
> 'clean box' to work on the physically larger winchseters, like the 8" and 
> 14" drives in some of my classics.

That actually sounds like an useful and easy thing to make.  Something 
like a big glovebox, possibly.  You might not get your 14" drives in. 
You may be able to adapt a sandblasting cabinet - it's designed to keep 
dust *in*, so it should be OK at keeping dust *out*.

>>Of course, can't refute the argument about the internet
>>connection :)
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> Or the space. The dexktop area needed by a laptop and printer is not that 
> much smaller than that needed by a desktop PC + not-too-large monitor + 
> printer.
> 

It's still not a lot of space.

Gordon.