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lyd · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 390 Location: Lake Mills, Wi

I probably should have asked this before now, but I have a lot of dust to deal with, hair from the dog, and I smoke a not inconsiderable amount.

Is there anything I can/should do with the 8500 to mitigate trouble from all of this? Specific bits that I should pay attention to cleaning regularly? I am definitely working on a celling mount, and short term it will be off the floor on a 3' high cart, but that will only really eliminate the hair issue, and might make the smoke worse.

Thank you.

lyd

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject:

I had an 8500 installed in the smoking room in a pub for 2 years, and it was fine. Not sure how well the digital replacement is holding up that I refused to sell them when they whined about wanting a brighter picture... Thumbs Up

lyd · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 390 Location: Lake Mills, Wi

Sweet, thanks.

lyd

**kal** · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:

Dust/smoke is one of the (many) places that CRT shines (pardon the pun) over digital. Digitals run super-hot and therefore require lots of air movement which results in stuff getting clogged up pretty fast in a smoke/dust environment.

Kal

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

Curt... remember that Zenith 851 chassis I scored for you? (the one with the arching blue neckboard?) This was in a pub for something like 10-12 years before Massachusetts banned smoking in all public food establishments.
Before I cleaned it up and crated it, that machine literally had nicotine dripping off of it. It gave me a contact high just to handle it... Only once before have I run into such a contact high... Cleaning a SmokeEater in high school!

Sonynut · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 367 Location: Bradford,PA

Build a hushbox with not only air drawn out of it, but fresh air from a clean-air source forced in. Be wary of outside air unless it's conditioned because of outside humidity of course.