Computer as lint storage unit

**Mick** · 06-30-2013, 12:41 PM

Got a couple of towers yesterday. Took the panel off the second and found this:
http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/...rinside005.jpg

**PAScrapPappy** · 06-30-2013, 12:43 PM

Hahahaha..looks like the mice moved in..

**Mick** · 06-30-2013, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by PAScrapPappy

Hahahaha..looks like the mice moved in..

That's what it was. Just after taking the picture ( and posted here a couple minutes later), I took the stuff out and there's a lot of mouse droppings. Took the whole thing out to the garage before the wife gets home. I was tearing them down on the dining room table. If she saw that she'd really freak out. I'll take it down to the cabin I use as a workshop.

**twmart** · 06-30-2013, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mick

That's what it was. Just after taking the picture ( and posted here a couple minutes later), I took the stuff out and there's a lot of mouse droppings. Took the whole thing out to the garage before the wife gets home. I was tearing them down on the dining room table. If she saw that she'd really freak out. I'll take it down to the cabin I use as a workshop.

DUST MASK!!!!

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Watch out for that hantavirus crude

**41haikuwarriors** · 06-30-2013, 02:20 PM

The worst tower I've gotten had a brown fur all over everything. The nicotine drips on the heatsink is what told me what it was. Smelled like cherry pipe tobacco, so it smelled really really good but was gross at the same time.

**KzScrapper** · 06-30-2013, 02:25 PM

Mick-That would put some dryers to shame.

**unknownk** · 06-30-2013, 03:14 PM

Cig smoke in a computer makes me sick, that tar is very flammable as well.

I snagged an old IBM PS/2 Model 90 desktop at the local recycler a few years back that was wall to wall fuzzy white fine lint, looked like a pillow inside the case. Never could figure out how that happened, but it cleaned up easily enough and the computer still works.

**NewbyScrapper** · 06-30-2013, 05:48 PM

Interesting Mick. Wonder how the mousey got inside the case? Cover left off?

So time back, when I was working as an Engine Management Tech, for a local auto repair shop, the owner of a PC repair shop 2 doors down arrived with a large tower and asked if he could use the shop's air to clean out the thing. I warned him that the air would be at around 150psi ! He said, no problem.
He removes the case side cover and shows me the HUGE amount of sawdust inside.

Once again, I warn about the air pressure and hand him a very fine nozzle to attach to the hose.

He goes in "gung ho", sawdust flying around everywhere, accompanied by ram sticks, the phone modem, cpu fan and finally the pci video card, all over the shop floor.

I could not stop laughing and nearly p'd my pants.