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Wes James
Carpal Tunnel
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Re: What kind of compressed air?
06/26/08 04:19 PM
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Paul-
Even with an air compressor, you have to be careful- as when you compress air- you heat it- which generates moisture, so if your air compressor doesn't use a water trap, you wouldn't want to use that anyway. Also you want to make sure that the compressor won't have any oil vapor in it, or you'd be worse off than you were to begin with. Don't know is all canned airs are problematic- they all have to have propellants, and that is the source of the problems. The bulb like they make for camera cleaning- with the brush on the end is one clean source of air... if you want more pressure, you could take a turkey baster- make a reducer for the end of it so you're blowing air out of a smaller diameter tube opening- say, 1/16" as opposed to the 1/4" opening of the typical baster... that should give you enough air pressure to blow any dust off- with no danger of contaminants/propellants.
Hope you're o.k. from all the fires out there???
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Wes
Atlantic Beach, FL
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