Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Stewart Stremler wrote:
The way I'd heard was to go into the bathroom, run the shower on
hot and get it full of steam, then turn off the shower, and wait
for the steam to clear.
I *like* that approach. But we didn't have a shower at work. :(
Anyone with a decent air quality tester willing to try this?
I don't have a tester, but I have a wife who's an environmental
scientist specializing in air quality...
She says that the shower approach is fundamentally flawed by the large
volume of the pseudo-clean-room and its inherent difficulty in remaining
so, especially with the introduction of a human body to the mix.
I used a can of air to get the bag partially inflated. I cleaned the
tools the best I could and wiped them down with lint-free towels...
That's basically what she described as the best way to maintain a
pseudo-clean-room... restrict the volume as much as possible. As long as
you clean your tools well and evacuate the bag with compressed air
before sealing it, you'll have the smallest particulate concentration
possible in such a makeshift environment.
But even the shower trick won't take care of possible contaminates in
your breath (unless you can hold your breath for the procedure ;) ).
Bingo. Add that to perspiration, condensation, and the fact that you
probably won't be able to seal the bathroom tightly enough anyway...
And there's my geekiness alarm going off. I'm glad I got that thing
installed; otherwise I'd ramble on and on like those über-nerds in that
new Big Bang Theory show (which, incidentally, is great; just watched
Episode 2 tonight).
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