Dusty Studio
Not a question as such, more an observation.
I suspected that my Studio was getting warm, here's the reason...
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Use of a household vacuum cleaner is discouraged, because their plastic wands can generate HUGE, electronics-killing static electricity long before you can feel the ZAP of a static discharge.
Commercial vacs for this purpose have conductive metal tools.
On the old Mac Pro 42 lb silver towers, the tool of choice is compressed air. You move the Mac to a place where dust is a "don't care" such as a garage or outside, and blast the dust out of the Mac and into space with compressed air. NB >> If you do not do this moving step, YOU may spend the next few nights in the doghouse.
The caveat with compressed air is to not be unrelenting in spinning the fans with compressed air, so as not to damage the fan bearings.
The connectors inside your Mac are designed as 'gas-tight' connections. You can not damage card and cable connections by ordinary blowing air around inside. You won't blow dust INTO a connector so as to weaken its connection. If you apply air so hard you knock components out of their sockets, that is a different story.
