source for foam filter material

From: bluoval <bluoval_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Sat Apr 10 19:24:51 1999

Why not go down to your local hardware store and buy an a/c filter and trim
it to size? Some window mounted a/c units use a black thin black foam sheet
under the grating. This should work. Hope this helps.

Lawrence LeMay wrote:

> Does anyone know where I might be able to buy some thin black foam filter
> material, to replace the stuiff that was used on my Teral computers?
> These systems have a large fan that draws air into the computer, and
> the intake air goes through this very thin filter, in order to capture
> large particles such as lint.
>
> After 22+ years, that foam is nothing more than dust.
>
> I would need something almost 5 inches wide, that i could then trim to
> the proper shape.
>
> -Lawrence LeMay
Received on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 19:24:51 BST