Grebuloner
[H]ard|Gawd
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So, I have a number of spare computers that I generally only use for sporadic Primegrid challenges (power bill keeping me from running them all the time). For the sanity of my hearing, and to help keep them running cooler, I've placed them down in my unfinished basement on top of an old heavy workbench. After opening one up to swap out its PSU, I noticed some small insect corpses and a thread or two of spider silk inside the case. Luckily, no living residents. It's not remotely as bad as you see in some of those nasty ass computer pictures, but still, I'd rather it not happen at all. I did spray the bench with the Ortho insect killer defense stuff before placing the cases, but that doesn't stop them from getting inside on their way out of this plane. The bugs are smaller than the ventilation holes in the cases, and larger ones can climb through the rear fans when the computers are off.
Does anyone have any experience or advice as to preventing the incursion and potential damage of bugs? I was thinking of buying some mosquito netting and wrapping it around the block of cases but I've never lived anywhere it was necessary to own it and I'm not sure as to its ability to prevent other insects from getting inside.
Does anyone have any experience or advice as to preventing the incursion and potential damage of bugs? I was thinking of buying some mosquito netting and wrapping it around the block of cases but I've never lived anywhere it was necessary to own it and I'm not sure as to its ability to prevent other insects from getting inside.