OT (though not entirely) - old air compressor maintenance

Doc Shipley wrote: I think they were talking about blowing - I just wondered if you could reverse the motor direction in a cleaner, or just tap off the 'other' side of the motor or something. It's not doing the job it was designed for then, but may well provide airflow for blasting dirt as well as filtering room air through the HEPA filter. I certainly wasn't thinking of keeping the existing hose (too bulky!) - chop all that off along with any other unnecessary bits and just install a much thinner flexible pipe as appropriate. Nowhere near as good as a compressor, but possibly good enough for the purposes of blowing crud out of old computer stuff. Of course, as you say, the static side of things might be a big problem though :-( cheers Jules