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Ian Field

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On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:43:38 -0700, (Dave
Platt) wrote:

In article ,
Trevor Wilson wrote:

The one caveat I would add about blasting boards with (clean)
compressed
air is that you *gotta* do it outdoors for all sorts of reasons I can't
be assed to go into here.

**And yet another good reason to use a vac.

In particular: I'd be cautious about using compressed air to clean out
electronic equipment that's been stored in sheds, barns, or other
locations where there might be rodent activity. I've seen some pretty
grotty equipment donated to our ham club, which I thought might well
have been peed or pooped upon by rats and/or mice.

Hantavirus is no joke.

A vacuum, particularly one with a HEPA filter, would be safer than
compressed air (either indoors or outdoors).

I have not had rodents in my equipment,

A few years back I Freegled an old RF signal generator with a dead spider
wedged behind the frequency dial.

I'd done repairs and cleaning, it had a bodged voltage regulator and I never
got the AF modulator going - I just couldn't be bothered taking out the
whole chassis to get at the spider.