nitecrawler47 Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 Boy I feel stupid. I've had some guys putting in tile in some rooms above my studio and came home to a worrysome sight today. Several of my keyboards, my mixer and my DAR were subjected to falling dust, wood shavings, etc. I've vacumed (sp) everything as best I can and now I'm thinking of getting some of that "canned air" to get into the cracks and such. Question- is this "canned air spray" a good idea to use? I've seen it used for computer keyboards many times. Man I should have covered my gear. :eek: nitecrawler ps-the tile job is coming along really well :o "Time to head down that old Colorado highway pardner." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxTick Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 the caveat to using 'canned air' is that you risk the dust being blown into parts that may have a negative reaction to the dust. such as CD player/recorder laser pickups, disk drives or anything with heads or mechanical moving parts. the vacuum should be good enough.. that's what i use and i've never had any problems. good luck. 0096 2251 2110 8105 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
not coaster MODERATOR Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 Did you use a Shop Vac with a very narrow nozzle opening? That will do a lot of cleaning in the hard to get places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medford Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 Well I'm glad to see there's two of us! :eek: I just finished a sheetrock job. I covered my stuff but not good enough. I used some of the canned air but only at a distance of 12 inches or so. Along with a very soft bristle 1" paint brush it did a real nice job. Also with the brush you don't mess up all your knob and fader settings. :thu: good luck. medford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitecrawler47 Posted April 13, 2002 Author Share Posted April 13, 2002 Hey thanks guys for responding. I used a regular vac with the narrow nozzle attachment as recommended by Cereal.That worked good! :) I still may get some canned air and use it cautiously as medford recommends before I turn everything back on :freak: The crew doesn't come back until Monday to work on the tile project. I am definately covering everything up before Monday morning arrives. The dust causing part of the job is done, but it doesn't hurt to be overly cautious, albeit somewhat slow. Again, thanks all!! nitecrawler "Time to head down that old Colorado highway pardner." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 I often use a (non-synthetic) high quality painters brush and a vacuum cleaner nozzle made for cleaning computers (bought a kit for aprox. $5). Also, there is a special kind of brush (that often is used by car dealers), it is some kind of synthetic that attracts dust without scratching the surface. I have one that I use to wipe rack gear and computer screens - works real well. Best cleaning advice: vaccum all rooms every working day, before doing anything else, while most of the dust is on the floor. Regarding canned air: I always use them on CD's before putting them in the player/burner. What's the verdict on air-cleaners? /Mats P.S. Also, as you might have noticed, I'm quite anal about dust-covers. All desk-top-type gear should come with covers included. http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitecrawler47 Posted April 13, 2002 Author Share Posted April 13, 2002 Mats: that car dealers brush sounds interesting. Let me know if you find out any further info on it. :cool: nitecrawler "Time to head down that old Colorado highway pardner." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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