Xexx
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Back when i worked in a customer facing IT role i had systems like this come in to be serviced. I would literally take a blower or vacuum to shit like this.
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Back when i worked in a customer facing IT role i had systems like this come in to be serviced. I would literally take a blower or vacuum to shit like this.
Mist
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Friend of mine in college brought over his computer, he smoked a lot of pot at his desk and also those weirdo hippy cigs with the Indian on them. Wanted me to fix it.
It was so fucking gross. Just so unbelievably fucking gross.
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Mist
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Fucker
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I bought a small house to use as a rental unit. It had been occupied by smokers. The entire house stank something truly awful. The paint behind the dish washer even stank like cigarette tar and I found a butt back there. I had to paint the top of the cabinets with Kilz and rented an industrial ozone generator to get the stink out of the HVAC. I know every single thing they owned was coated in that nasty tar. The living room windows were coated in that crap, too. I dumped dozens of cleaning water down the drain that was brown.
Thinking back, I probably should have done a Jewish insurance claim on it and saved myself a lot of dry heaving.
Mist
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Yeah, but that's regular smoker shit.
The way smoker shit gets into tiny components with small fans on them is something else.
The video card was completely ruined, it could not be cleaned. It had one of those small blower coolers that were common back in the day and it basically looked like the Protomolecule was growing in it.
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Yeah, the fans thing is bad news.
The ozone generator I used worked well enough, but it was a small house with only a handful of metal ducts. A larger house that uses framing as ducts would have been ruined.
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Lanx
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you can buy em for home use now
i remember almost killin myself doing ozone on car, no smoke ever, but i wanted a neutral smell after 20years, it just old. i ran it for 1hr enclosed in the car and when i opened the door and took a whiff i was dry heavin like some chemical attak
it was also awesome gettin thhe mildewy smell out of my basement when it flooded.
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Ozone bad for lungs. Not supposed to be in house while letting it run. It's also hell on natural rubber.you can buy em for home use now
i remember almost killin myself doing ozone on car, no smoke ever, but i wanted a neutral smell after 20years, it just old. i ran it for 1hr enclosed in the car and when i opened the door and took a whiff i was dry heavin like some chemical attak
it was also awesome gettin thhe mildewy smell out of my basement when it flooded.
It does a good job on smoke odors, but everything still has to be washed/painted with Killz, and carpet/padding have to go.
Cigarette smoke gets into everything. Even the ceiling fan was gummed up, as were the backs of a few outlet covers.
Lanx
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oh shit i over hauled the outlets and switches in my house and one bedroom and the living room where nasty... it's probably cig then!
Brahma
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Going to ask the silly question, have you tried one of these? A few times they have worked recovering my friends drives. Not the exact model I have (no idea where it is) but it works most times. Just shows up as an external drive and allowed me to snag most of the files off it.
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Kiroy
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I don't see a link but i'm guessing it's a drive adapter. I have one coming from amazon, but I'm thinking it's not going to work since the whole drive went raw.
Lanx
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noctua has the most extensive compatibility list
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Thank younoctua has the most extensive compatibility list
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Brahma
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Honestly the best thing about UNIFANS (aside from less wiring) is securing 3 fans to the case with 4 screws.
It's funny how much lighter the computer is without a water block on the CPU and GPU, 2 radiators, the distro plate, and all the tubing and fittings. I wouldn't be surprised if it's over 20 pounds lighter.
It's funny how much lighter the computer is without a water block on the CPU and GPU, 2 radiators, the distro plate, and all the tubing and fittings. I wouldn't be surprised if it's over 20 pounds lighter.