<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>from a neat freak</title></head><body> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">>...that blowing with a decent compressor would indeed get most of the dust off the board, >unless there had been a spill and it was some sort of gooey spot. As long as it were a >powerful enough compressor, that is.</font><br> <font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">Dust clings to the surface. More accumulated dust sits upon this coating. You can blast the</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">blanket of decades of accumulation off the surface but the hazy coating remains.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">Blowing the dirt around is not cleaning, just reducing the amount of soil.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">Your efforts would be better spent pushing a rag around than with the wholesale debris evacuation method. Lately I've been wiping down damper heads, plate struts</font> and plate</div> <div>expanses for customers to keep ahead of the onslaught, saving board cleaning for more intensive</div> <div>endeavors.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>