Rig cleaning – last time for 2009 =D

Yeah, 2009 is about to end in just about nine hours! This time though, I cleaned with a completely different method this time.

Instead of washing the whole fan by drowning it in water, I used a cotton buds, tissues and also lot of cups of water. Trust me, you’ll be needing that 8D

Firstly, some updates 8D

Removed all ODD bay plates.

Well for this time I cleaned the rig without taking much pictures. Much likely because I’m already having a headache about the big cleaning thing.

I actually stripped the HAF 932 to bare metal

Doesn’t look pretty at all =|

When I looked back into the casing… Dusts… raping over my components.

First off is the my Sunbeam CCF. Clogged!

Places least expected to be dominated with dusts – raped!

Even the little air vents for the HDD at the side panel is with dust!

Removed my HAF 932’s top I/O panel too.

Wires – like tentacles!

Well even the fans are dominated! Cleaning wasn’t easy this time.

Prepared as how I said just now – a cup of water (often renewed), tissues, lots of cotton buds and also a lot of patience and effort.

I took this during my short break =|

Wiping unreachable yet big pile of dusts with cotton bud was easy. The reason for the cup of water is to dip one side of the bud in the water and use the tissue to absorb excess water, then wipe the dust and finally dipping the side of the bud with dust into the water again and shaking the dust off.

Eventually you’ll use a lot of buds since the cotton just go soft, and swim along with the dust =|

Another picture taken during my break =|

Okay, enough with the random photos. To start off… I sleeved all the small little wires connecting to the top I/O panel.

And I can’t believe that the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS15 can take such good images with clearly visible DoF.

Sleeved!

As for my CCF…

First wipe. Imagine how I wanna clean the whole thing.

Please don’t ask how those mosquitoes and flies came in.

Random picture I took while I was cleaning the CCF.

I just can’t get enough of the macro zoom mode.

By cleaning using this method, it’s really clean but the time taken is really long. Well since I have nothing to do, why not? 8D

I just love this picture.

Well after taking REALLY long to finish up this cleaning process, it’s finished and my casing is now still dirtier when I first bought it! 8D But cleaner than most of the time when I started using it.

Epic cleaning process – Done.