Taking the rig outside and using "clean" compressed air will do a far better job than vacuuming. Vacuuming is just not powerful enough to dislodge dust in cooling fins and other small places. Also as I have experienced you may have to physically wipe the blades of a fan to get best performance out of them.

Hurray, 1 down, many more to convince it's worth looking under the hood, desktops usually but 2 or 3 screws away to showing the innards. The quad here has a simple slide to release the hinged sidewall.

(Was looking for a picture of an old ~1960's sled vacumer by Excelcior or Husqvarna, but those turbo engine vacs were great at putting the hose on the back and have is blow rather than...[sensored myself] vac.)

Hi
Great thread love the pics mikaok
For a bit of prevention have used these
magnetic dust filters they work great.
Also bought one very similar to this a while back to inflate the childrens toys works a treat on the dust bunnies too.
Chris.

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