Smoking around computers

[deathmetal]

This is from a coal testing lab, but still: beware! Pipes seem lighter in effect than cigarettes or cigars however.
http://imgur.com/SHFfnhM

 

[aldecaker]

I used to work maintenance at a flight school whose chief flight instructor was a chain-smoker. Changing the inlet air filters for the pneumatic-powered gyro instruments was no treat, lemme tell ya. What a nasty, goopy mess!

 

[instymp]

It makes everything a goopy mess, even you lungs.

If I put it in my lungs why would I give a hoot about a computer.

Not being a smart ass or making light of your post!

But I ain't giving it up soon as I am smoking & using my laptop.

Ventilate well!

 

[stickframer]

I had some pretty high end turntables and a mixing board and such. Cigarette smoke was very harsh on that stuff.

 

[tuold]

If you're building your own computer it really pays to get a case with cleanable intake filters. I've blown clouds of dust a little like that out of some friend's computers who don't even smoke. I have seen yellowish nicotine/tar coated motherboards from those who did though. Nasty, and a good reason not to smoke around electronics.

 

[ejames]

My current computer is about 4 years old.Have one in the closet (still works) that was almost 10 years old when I retired it. I smoked like a freight train around both.

 

[ray47]

My air cleaner is right next to my computer so the smoke goes directly into the cleaner and not the computer or the room.

 

[smokinfireman]

I don't smoke in the house, so the carport roof is the only object feeling the effect.

 

[pappymac]

Yes, cigarette and cigar smoke can damage a desktop computer if you chain smoke and blow the smoke on your computer. But, I believe this is less of a problem with current computers than it was with computers from 10 to 20 years ago. The technology has changed.

 

[deathmetal]

The technology has changed.

Less so that than high powered exhaust fans. Still a problem with static attraction of smoke (and other) particles though.

 

[mso489]

My late wife -- I'm remarried after long windower-hood -- used to chain smoke packs of cigarettes a day, often grading papers near a window which was often closed. When I washed the window, I was in awe of the amount of tar and other residue that coated those panes of glass. It was like living near a coal tar plant, amazing. She

eventually quit smoking, and her illness was not, as near as is medically known, related to her smoking.
Not about smoking, but to tender consideration for electronics, in the Navy I worked for about half my enlistment as a radioman (a now defunct job rating). Aboard ship I was spoiled by spending most of my time in the radio shack which was always well air conditioned out of concern for the radio gear which included a bank of receivers, transmitters, teletype machines, and encryption gear. When I went on deck or into the engine room, I realized how lucky I was compared to the guys who worked there.

 

[dochudson]

By the time your computer is affected by smoking it will be obsolete.

 

[dude]

My Laptop is covered with too many ashes for the tar to get to it.