William R. Walsh wrote:
Hi!

Anyone have any operational experience of pc failure due to swarms
of fire ants ?

Well, the circuit didn't fail and they weren't fire ants...but...

I had a massive ants nest show up in an Optimus STA-795 stereo
receiver. I noticed them moving around on the front panel, so I picked
it up and WOW! Ants were pouring out of the bottom of the unit. The
manual was underneath it, and they'd made some kind of a big white
thing on top of it. I don't recall exactly what I did to evict them,
but they never came back again.

William

bugs seem to like heat, so things like vcrs were popular places for
roaches to live in.

you could tell from looking at a customer at the shop if you had to open
their electronics on newspapers and have a can of electronics cleaner
ready to kill anything that would run off.