Thread: If you have a computer in your workshop

You might want to consider a dustfilter in front of the air intake.

Yesterday I was happily grinding a new kitchenknife while I had some music playing on my computer, when suddenly the lights went out. As my workshop is in the basement, this posed a bit of a problem. Luckily my wife had not closed the door to the basement so I had a bit of secondary light to navigate my way between the stuff.

I didn't figure out why the power went out until I tried to restart my computer
It didn't react to the power button anymore. Some metal dust must have gotten into the power supply and shorted out something. Luckily, I could fix it by blowing some air through the power supply.

Might not even be a bad idea to cover the keyboard...I had mine in the shop for a short while and decided to put it back into the house. Had to blow out the CPU area and keyboard as the keys were sticking as well...

I have one of those big air filtration units hanging on the ceiling. Every week when I remove the front filter there's a layer of accumulated black metal dust and what not that's probably close to 1/2" thick. There's no way I'm having a computer in the shop. You're a brave man :-)

My situation is hopeless to the point I have to buy a new keyboard every couple yrs (10 bux at the puter surplus strores)