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andyf:
Chuck, how about a shallow rectangular frame with a rubber-tipped leg at each corner sticking upwards, like an upside-down table? Perch the laptop on the legs - front legs shorter than the back, if you want it to slope. Mount fan/fans on the frame, under the laptop. No need for any mesh.

As a short-term measure while snowed in, use the laptop on a table in the garden.  :)

Andy

Chuck in E. TN:
I've thought about the garden Andy, lol, but it's only 22 deg f/-5.5 c out there! Even in the enclosed smoking porch, it's only 30deg f., but dryer!
I thank you folks for all input. I have cleaned the airway best I can blowing through it with lung power. Don't have a working air compressor. I will replace the heat sink grease on the cpu as soon as I get to Radio Shack to get some.
I think I will have a rummage through the wife's cupboards for a sacrificial baking rack, or see what I can come up with. I could build it from wood brown stuff(bite my toung!), but liked the one I saw in the video I posted the link to and woundered if anyone had a source for expanded metal/plastic that wasn't horribly expensive.

Chuck in E. TN (3" and still comming, maybe no school tomorrow! Yea!)

Blade:
Do you have a surplus city or something similar in your area? sometimes they have old computer racks or other items that use grates like that.
 
Edited to add that you can sometimes get the perforated plastic light grating with the little squares at lowes hardware.

75Plus:
Check the window glass area at HD or Lowes. The used to carry perforated aluminum panels that could be inserted in the lower pane of a storm door as a safety feature when the kids were little. As I recall they were about 22 or 24 gauge metal.

Joe

Alan Haisley:
Check housewares departments for cake cooling racks.  :hammer:

Alan

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