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Re: Hard drives breaking (heat?)

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From: Mike Clarke
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:00
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In article <3A1CDCA6.87296A69@sweeney.demon.co.uk>, Wine Development
<wine@sweeney.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Try to get one of the miniature vacuum cleaners that laser printer
>service engineers use. I found one in the Farnell catalogue (very old
>one).
>
>They are not cheap though (GBP101 in 1992) and have very good filtering.
>
>I can't find them in the most recent Maplin cat I have, so it will 
>probably need the more specialised outlets.

They're available from http://www.longs.co.uk/vacuum.htm. 3 models with
prices from GBP80 to 173 (+VAT +delivery I expect), I don't have any
experience of them but they all claim to be ESD safe.

-- 
Mike Clarke
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From: Mike Clarke <UCEblock@helix.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Hard drives breaking (heat?)
Date: 2000/11/28
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