Modder sacrificed lungs for cool case
Posted: 15 Jun 2008, 16:03
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
WE LOVE LOONY MODDERS here at he INQUIRER. Your unstinting and insane dedication to squeezing computery innards into the most unlikely places keeps us endlessly amused as we slave over a hot keyboard to bring you the latest tech news, fresh from the rumour mill.
But you can go too far, as one almost suicidally insane modder over at Ubergizmo has proved.
The chump in question managed to lay his hands on a decommissioned black box (it's actually a nifty red colour) flight recorder from a Lockheed aircraft.
He then proceeded to hack away at the internal insulated padding of the box with a power drill and a large auger bit to make enough room to cram in a mini-Itx mobo and all the other gubbins needed to make his swanky new computer.
The problem is the insulation was made of asbestos. Now we don't know what precautions the fellow took to prevent the airborne particles working their way into his lungs, but we spoke to a leading UK asbestos removal company to find out what he should have done.
Apparently, he should have built an airtight, double airlocked enclosure with hepa filtered ventilation, worn a disposable airtight body suit and full-face powered respirator, and constantly damped down the debris to minimise air contamination. The material removed should have been double wrapped in extra strong polythene hazardous waste sacks and sealed with industrial grade tape before being disposed of at a government-licensed facility.
Apparently just a few microscopic fibres of asbestos can cause terminal lung disease, so don't you go trying this at home, kids.
TheInquirer
WE LOVE LOONY MODDERS here at he INQUIRER. Your unstinting and insane dedication to squeezing computery innards into the most unlikely places keeps us endlessly amused as we slave over a hot keyboard to bring you the latest tech news, fresh from the rumour mill.
But you can go too far, as one almost suicidally insane modder over at Ubergizmo has proved.
The chump in question managed to lay his hands on a decommissioned black box (it's actually a nifty red colour) flight recorder from a Lockheed aircraft.
He then proceeded to hack away at the internal insulated padding of the box with a power drill and a large auger bit to make enough room to cram in a mini-Itx mobo and all the other gubbins needed to make his swanky new computer.
The problem is the insulation was made of asbestos. Now we don't know what precautions the fellow took to prevent the airborne particles working their way into his lungs, but we spoke to a leading UK asbestos removal company to find out what he should have done.
Apparently, he should have built an airtight, double airlocked enclosure with hepa filtered ventilation, worn a disposable airtight body suit and full-face powered respirator, and constantly damped down the debris to minimise air contamination. The material removed should have been double wrapped in extra strong polythene hazardous waste sacks and sealed with industrial grade tape before being disposed of at a government-licensed facility.
Apparently just a few microscopic fibres of asbestos can cause terminal lung disease, so don't you go trying this at home, kids.
TheInquirer
