Electric Component Cooler Spray?

[VashTheStampede]

Looking for a can of compressed air to clean out my fans and my ever nasty keyboard, I found this, amongst cans of other stuff (Hard Drive Head Cleaner and Flux cleaner), Electronic Component Cooler. It claims:

"Freezes Components Instantly to -95 F. Quickly Locates Thermal Intermittents.

* Prevents heat damage during soldering
* Prevents cold solder points
* Locates hairline cracks in PC boards
* Prevents transformer burnout
* Leaves no residue
* Safe on plastics
* Non-flammable"

It even says to spray on the circuit boards while in operation, UNTIL FROST APPEARS, so I'm guessing the stuff is dielectric as well.

The can is relatively small, net wt. 10oz. Since rthe stuff does not interfere with the operation of a PC's sensitive parts, can someone rig up a system with this stuff?

It's made by L&M Manufacturing:

177 N.E. 166th Street
Miami, FL 33162
to re-order: 800-544-2910

Not sure if any of that data is still relavent, the can seems more than a few years old.

~Vash~

[funnyperson1]

sounds like it would probably depend on it being compressed and sprayed out to get that cold so it would be pretty complicated to make a cooling system, though i would be willing to spend a bottle to see if my PIII can boot at 1GHZ or something like taht...

[VashTheStampede]

Just took my spare AMD K6-2 system out into the hall, powered it up and sprayed it. Sprayed the HSF, sprayed the PSU, sprayed the PCI and ISA slots. No sparks, still running. Not sure of temps, didn't hook the monitor up, going to spray my system now.

Will get temps.

~VAsh~

[VashTheStampede]

Oks, still alive :D and I come bearing temps.

Initial temp before spray: 41 C
Temp from spraying the base of Super Mini Orb until frosty (3 seconds): 29 C

Not incredibly great, but hell, it made one extremely poor HSF get some good temps :)

~Vash~

[mw521]

The component cooler is used in electronics to find problems in circuits. It freezes the component and if it overheats, you can tell, also on board traces, etd.:beer:

[Jmichael484]

I saw the same thing at Radio Shack, I think it's for testing something but not for something like replacing fans, it'll wear off