Vaping to a laptop can damage the machine?

[Steven H]

I've started vaping for a 6 months, and I always vape directly infront of my laptop.

Yesterday my laptop suddenly shut down itself and could not be turned on whatsoever, so I brought it to repair.

They said that inside my laptop there's a lot of vaping residue, and some parts of the machine are getting rusted.

Is it possible that the residue damaged my laptop?

Or it's just a coincidence that my laptop died at this time? (I have used it for almost 5 yrs).

Does anyone have a similar experience?

 

[Asbestos4004]

I ruined one....The tech said "what's with the vanilla?"

 

[WillyZee]

been vaping in front of my MacBook for 3+ years ... works as good as the day I bought it.

however, I'm a tootle puffer and my clouds are quite puny ... about the same size a cigarette would put out.

Mac probably hasn't even noticed

 

[ZCAR1]

I had a PC with a mouse problem. It chewed some wires & the droppings gave it away.
(The PC was missing some covers where some boards had been removed).

 

[Steven H]

been vaping in front of my MacBook for 3+ years ... works as good as the day I bought it.

however, I'm a tootle puffer and my clouds are quite puny ... about the same size a cigarette would put out.

Mac probably hasn't even noticed

Mac doesn't have fans where smoke can get in, so you're all good.

 

[SteveS45]

Been vaping next to 8 machines for years no problems from vaping but no brown film covered in dust inside any of them anymore from smoking!

 

[kbeam418]

I vape in front of all my computers and never had any issues. Mind you I have a gaming pc that literally sucks the vapor in the case and blows it out on the top (yes it's cool to watch).

 

[celticluvr]

I don't know about vape residue but Laptops have a bad habit of over heating... even when being used on desks/tables exclusively. Honestly I'd have a cooling mat for it, especially if the vents are on the bottom instead of the side...

Who the even makes a laptop with vents on the bottom?? (HP!!!) are they idiots?

 

[Bad Ninja]

They said that inside my laptop there's a lot of vaping residue, and some parts of the machine are getting rusted.

Wut?

Who said this?
A computer repair shop?

Ask for your money back right now and find a new shop.
They have no business touching anyone's machine.

 

[Steven H]

Wut?

Who said this?
A computer repair shop?

Ask for your money back right now and find a new shop.
They have no business touching anyone's machine.

Yeah. They said it.
I asked them to repair it.

 

[Steven H]

I don't know about vape residue but Laptops have a bad habit of over heating... even when being used on desks/tables exclusively. Honestly I'd have a cooling mat for it, especially if the vents are on the bottom instead of the side...

Who the even makes a laptop with vents on the bottom?? (HP!!!) are they idiots?

Mine actually have the vent on top slightly above the keyboard. I'm guessing that's where the vape got in.

It doesn't have any issue with heating tho, and it's way better than my older ones which have vents on the side.
I don't know the logic, but I hate laptops with side vents.

 

[Fad]

When smoking, the inside of my tower (with quite large airflow through it) I had to literally scrape the brown tar + dust residue from the fan blades at least once a year.

Now with vaping it`s much better, although I still must occasionally clean the dust and vape residue build up from the fan blades which is now a grey colour instead and doesn`t smell.

The area around my PC desk does collect a lot of vaping residue which is more noticeable on the shiny surfaces and definitely appears very quickly on the large mirror and glass doors in this room...they need fully cleaning, weekly (ideally more often - but I`m not a slave to housework )

..so it`s definitely getting pulled through the PC as well, as I vape heavily quite often right in front of it - it`s at keyboard level.

That said, the PC has never failed due to it and while I`m saying in this particular instance it`s possible to be a factor in the failure of the machine, I am most certainly not saying that it`s definitely the cause.

An already 5 year old laptop with a fan that may have succumbed to dust build up plus the additional rusting of parts may have been exacerbated by the introduction of hygroscopic VG & PG - do you live in a high humidity area ?

TL;DR
in my opinion, in some instances vaping residue might not necessarily be as benign as one may think; even when compared with cigarette tar residue.

 

[mcclintock]

In CRT projection TVs, if the ethylene glycol and water coolant leaks on the the circuit board, it is corrosive to powered electronics. I expect this is the water content, which does evaporate but glycol may also absorb water from the air. Even without this, humid environments can cause noticable corrosion but rarely causes an actual problem. It usually has to be bad enough a circuit board trace gets eaten through.

 

[Opinionated]

I've started vaping for a 6 months, and I always vape directly infront of my laptop.

Yesterday my laptop suddenly shut down itself and could not be turned on whatsoever, so I brought it to repair.

They said that inside my laptop there's a lot of vaping residue, and some parts of the machine are getting rusted.

Is it possible that the residue damaged my laptop?

Or it's just a coincidence that my laptop died at this time? (I have used it for almost 5 yrs).

Does anyone have a similar experience?

I got a brand new laptop as an early birthday present a year and a half ago. When I'm on my laptop I vape, when I'm in the same room as my laptop I vape (which is most of the time and i don't turn it off much ever, I just let it sleep) and I have had no issues with my laptop. None. And I have vaped the whole time with a 4 or 5 month exception when I quit vaping for a short time.

So, unless your doing something weird..or chucking huge clouds 24/7 at it, I cannot imagine why you would have an issue after only 6 months of vaping.

Seriously, it seems to have been an underlying issue with your laptop from reading your post coupled with my personal experience living here in the rain forest of the U.S..

 

[Fad]

There`s no mention in the o.p. whether he smoked cigarettes directly in front of it, potentially for up to 4.5 years - that wouldn`t help either.

Clogging fans up, causing overheating - laptops seem to run hot at the best of times and they aren`t always easily accessible for cleaning from what I`ve seen.

I would have thought it was a normal failure though....things do just fail.

 

[johnkat]

I don't doubt that vapour residue is likely on a fan cooled electrical device, but rust however I doubt very much unless you water your e-juice down.
Even then the airflow should be fairly consistent in it's route through the device and this in its self would dry out any minuscule amount of water vapour "if" you added water.
PG / VG are not water and should not promote rust. Ejuice vapour is not water vapour and for rust you need water and oxygen.
A cup of tea or a glass of coke are much more likely culprits in my opinion. (Assuming the repair technicians description of the cause is accurate)

 

[Bad Ninja]

Yeah. They said it.
I asked them to repair it.

If they actually said that, they arent qualified.
They are uneducated idiots.
6 months of blowing vapor into your laptop will NOT "rust" anything.
It's just not possible.
Leaving a machine with them wasnt a very wise choice as they have already tried to mislead you.

 

[r77r7r]

"What's with the vanilla", lolol

 

[DaveP]

I've vaped daily for hours in front of my HP laptop with no issues. I've taken it apart a couple of times and cleaned out the dust. One of those times was during a memory upgrade I did. I was disappointed that there isn't a small panel on the bottom to access components. The entire bottom cover had to come off and that required keyboard removal to access some of the fasteners.

There was a little dust around the fans, but no PG/VG film was detectable.

 

[Alien Traveler]

I vaped on my kitchen laptop for 7 years. Now I know why both USB ports went bad. It was 275 7-years old american dollars.