Comments on: Nicotine-plated eMac

By: Brian Deuel

Brian Deuel — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:25:49 +0000

I was given a pile of old CRT monitors a few years ago from a TGI Fridays, that I was going to clean up and give away to Goodwill or others that might use them. A few of them were so full of yellow, sticky, smelly grease that I ended up just stripping them down and recycling the parts. Cigarette smoke isn’t the only disgusting chemical people ingest.

By: Ray Dios Haque

Ray Dios Haque — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:28:08 +0000

I worked for Geek Squad a few years ago and nasty crap like this was common occurrence. I see in the photo’s that he handled it with bare hands. Good luck washing that smell out.

By: imajoebob

imajoebob — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:46:19 +0000

Back in my college days I had a classmate who had car windows looking like this. But to be clear – no pun intended – it was NOT nicotine that built up this much resin…

God, I miss the 70′s.

By: odin

odin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:41:37 +0000

Latex gloves anyone?

By: ClunkClunk

ClunkClunk — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:40:26 +0000

I’ve seen similar stuff with iMac G3 series machines. The only effective way to clean them was to soak the case overnight in a bucket of water and dishwashing liquid.

One of the Mac repair shops I worked at had a policy to not work on machines that were potentially hazardous, cigarette leftovers were one of them, so were animal infestations, hazardous liquid spills, or broken glass. It didn’t happen often, but I was present to enforce that policy about once a month.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:47:12 +0000

if that thing came to my workshop id void its warranty! urgh.

sidenote: i see your using the Apple approved ‘iCecube TrayÂ©’ for the bits good ol service manuals

By: Kirk Gray

Kirk Gray — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:20:02 +0000

I wrote a database for a coffee roasting company. Their was a machine next to each roasting oven where the roasters kept track of information.

A year later we upgraded the system which included memory and hard drive upgrades to the roasting machines. The motherboards were covered with a dark brown tar-like something. It was really kind of gross.

The next upgrade we moved the machines to another room with just the keyboards and monitors next to the roasters.

By: Richard tremont

Richard tremont — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:22:19 +0000

That is all kinds of gross.

By: Rowlings

Rowlings — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:20:56 +0000

Smoking will ALWAYS be cool!