Aha moment

[castle key]

While cleaning firearms at work, I found the usual gunk and debris. Didn't have access to the high pressure air blower so I tried the canned keyboard blaster. That worked great.

I thought a bit more ooomph would help and stumbled across a solution.

I was in the rest room and blew out the various guns with the hand dryer.

At least I saved paper and the guns will not chap!

Don't think this is a good idea in a school house.

[dm1333]

What firearms?  I'm going to remember the keyboard blaster trick!

[Ben]

What firearms?  I'm going to remember the keyboard blaster trick!

Whenever I need canned air for computer stuff, I always buy the Costco six pack and take half of them to the reloading room. Super convenient for both gun cleaning and also blowing stuff out of nooks and crannies on the presses.

[wmenorr67]

What about a hair dryer?

[RoadKingLarry]

What about a hair dryer?

Silly Okie, guns don't got hair.

I keep a can of air on the reloading bench, it doesn't take too much spilled powder to start to gunk up the progressive.

[Doggy Daddy]

Bought one of these a few years ago from Home Depot.  It was new and under $50.  Doesn't take too long to ring up $50 in cans of air, and this does a great job.  Only about a foot and a half long.  Very portable, or it can be kept right where you use it most.  I've still got my larger compressor for bigger jobs, but this is great for just blowing stuff out.  http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-2-Gal-Portable-Electric-Air-Compressor-DISCONTINUED-HHD2NK/203154549#.UVZgohxrTIo

[AJ Dual]

Bought one of these a few years ago from Home Depot.  It was new and under $50.  Doesn't take too long to ring up $50 in cans of air, and this does a great job.  Only about a foot and a half long.  Very portable, or it can be kept right where you use it most.  I've still got my larger compressor for bigger jobs, but this is great for just blowing stuff out.  http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-2-Gal-Portable-Electric-Air-Compressor-DISCONTINUED-HHD2NK/203154549#.UVZgohxrTIo

Need that.

I miss the good old days before air-dusters were so regulated due to huffers. Back in the early 90's when I worked there, CompUSA had a brand called "Windy City" which was essentially canned ethane. The employee discount being "at cost" they were only $.25 each. So one winter I and another enterprising nerd bought a case of them each.

After close one night, we inverted the cans and hosed down a snow-bank and gave a demonstration of "Likely conditions on Saturn's moon Titan".

Then after that, we lit the snowbank on fire and everyone enjoyed the spectacle of a burning snowbank that wouldn't melt.

The GM of the store walked by and said, "I don't want to know".

[bedlamite]

Need that.

http://www.harborfreight.com/air-tools/air-compressors/3-gallon-100-psi-oilless-pancake-air-compressor-95275.html

You can find coupons for $39.99 in magazines. I actually use mine more than my big compressor.

[AJ Dual]

http://www.harborfreight.com/air-tools/air-compressors/3-gallon-100-psi-oilless-pancake-air-compressor-95275.html

You can find coupons for $39.99 in magazines. I actually use mine more than my big compressor.

That and this combined: http://www.zorotools.com/g/00055226/k-G0770402?utm_source=google_shopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google_Shopping_Feed&kw={keyword}&gclid=CPnrqenOo7YCFYpDMgodT1EAdA

Corrosive milsurp ammo?

What me worry? 

[Monkeyleg]

I bought a gross of canned air in the 1990's when I had my photo studio, as it was something I use a lot.

I still have about half that case left. I think it will last the rest of my life.

It's good for getting that last bit of Hoppes that's inside the gun, that bit that will run down the slide onto your shirt when you holster the pistol, if you don't blow it out first.

[230RN]

For years I've had a little 2-gal compressor in my kitchen, hung from bungee cords under the table and resting also on a big pad of foam rubber.  I live in an apartment, and very little of the running noise gets around the building.

Handier than hell.  I clean out my shavers with it, dry off eyeglasses, blast the pine needles off my balcony, dust off books which have been shelved for a long time, all kinds of stuff, including blowing crap out of guns.  (Be wary of the resultant spray of solvents.)

'Course, I'm a bachelor, so I can get away with having one in my kitchen.  I suspect if they housed a compressor in pretty plastic like a cuisinart or something and made the nozzle and hosing  a pretty color, housewives would allow it in "their" kitchens.  Then they'd realize the full utility of compressed air in the kitchen.

And then you'd get words like, "Oh, no, you're not going to use my compressor on that dirty old gun..."  Or "icky shaver."  Or whatever you want to clean off.

I got mine for less than $40 at an auto parts store about ten years ago.

Terry, 230RN

[mtnbkr]

I bought a gross of canned air in the 1990's when I had my photo studio, as it was something I use a lot.

You bought canned air from New Jersey?

Chris

[geronimotwo]

You bought canned air from New Jersey?
Chris

did it come with its own gas mask?

[lee n. field]

Bought one of these a few years ago from Home Depot.  It was new and under $50.  Doesn't take too long to ring up $50 in cans of air, and this does a great job.  Only about a foot and a half long.  Very portable, or it can be kept right where you use it most.  I've still got my larger compressor for bigger jobs, but this is great for just blowing stuff out.  http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-2-Gal-Portable-Electric-Air-Compressor-DISCONTINUED-HHD2NK/203154549#.UVZgohxrTIo

Thanks.  I didn't realize air compressors were available that small and cheap.  I picked one up yesterday.  $59 at Menards.

[Doggy Daddy]

Thanks.  I didn't realize air compressors were available that small and cheap.  I picked one up yesterday.  $59 at Menards.

You're welcome.  It initially got my attention because it was little and cute.   

[birdman]

Be sure you drain it regularly.  Also, if blowing stuff out, its worth it to spend the extra and get an inline dryer.

[Fitz]

http://www.harborfreight.com/air-tools/air-compressors/3-gallon-100-psi-oilless-pancake-air-compressor-95275.html

You can find coupons for $39.99 in magazines. I actually use mine more than my big compressor.

I have that compressor. One year later, still working fine.

It could break tomorrow and i've gotten MORE than enough use out of it.

[230RN]

Mine's an "Alltrade," which I'm sure I got from Checker Auto.  Got a regulator on it, and an auto shutoff, internal fan to cool the compressor, and came with all the hosing, nozzle-accessories, tire inflator, basketball inflator needle,  blow-up doll air mattress inflator,

After about 10 years, it's finally developed a slow leak, probably the regulator diaphragm or somewhere in the fittings or hosings.  I don't  think it's a tank leak, with the RH so low around here, it doesn't collect much water, and it's not wetting the foam rubber I have it sitting on.

I paid $39.99 for it about ten years ago, but that was when $39.99 was $39.99.  Probably about $65 in today's money.

As I said before, you can't realize how handy they are until you start using one.  Just watch the spray from solvents.

Terry

[roo_ster]

For years I've had a little 2-gal compressor in my kitchen, hung from bungee cords under the table and resting also on a big pad of foam rubber.  I live in an apartment, and very little of the running noise gets around the building.

Handier than hell.  I clean out my shavers with it, dry off eyeglasses, blast the pine needles off my balcony, dust off books which have been shelved for a long time, all kinds of stuff, including blowing crap out of guns.  (Be wary of the resultant spray of solvents.)

'Course, I'm a bachelor, so I can get away with having one in my kitchen.  I suspect if they housed a compressor in pretty plastic like a cuisinart or something and made the nozzle and hosing  a pretty color, housewives would allow it in "their" kitchens.  Then they'd realize the full utility of compressed air in the kitchen.

And then you'd get words like, "Oh, no, you're not going to use my compressor on that dirty old gun..."  Or "icky shaver."  Or whatever you want to clean off.

I got mine for less than $40 at an auto parts store about ten years ago.

Terry, 230RN

I thought as much. 

Compressed air is handy.

[Boomhauer]

I do not understand how you people that do not have an air compressor at home survive.

[RevDisk]

Yea, I'm buying one this weekend.

[Tallpine]

I do not understand how you people that do not have an air compressor at home survive.

Out here in the boondocks, an air compressor and a battery charger are essential, unless you want to be a burden on your neighbors.