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 jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones) writes:
> ... (Some good thoughts and a little commiseration) ...

>	Strip out the bad filters.  If your air is dirty enough to
>	need filtering, go to a furnace store and look at the filter
>	media they have to offer.  I've seen some "plastic" furnace
>	filter material that's not too different from the DEC stuff,
>	but thicker.  I assume it'd work well enough if you can get
>	it to fit in the path of the airflow.  I've got a rack-mount
>	system with no air filters (at least, none remaning) inside
>	the rack.  The top-of-rack fan still has a filter, though,
>	but just about anything can be stuffed there.

Unfortunately, my problem is that the whole filter assembly is shot.
I'm less concerned about filtering the air than restoring the case.
The sheet metal is showing some rust but can be repainted.  All those
snap-in plastic things are broken, and it looks pretty sad.  (Works
great, though -- just like you'd expect from an 8/e :-)

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