21 Jan
2003
21 Jan
'03
10:46 a.m.
What about an airbrush compressor? I've seen them at hobby shops for
about $150, which, if you're doing a lot of tinkering in old, dust
filled computers, might be a good investment against cans of air.
I've also seen cans that were literally a can of air that came with a
small bicycle style pump to pump them up again. They don't work so
well.
-Jim
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Don Maslin wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Jay West wrote:
I have always used canned air, for lack of
anything better on hand.
But they
expire way too quickly, so I have a group of about 8 cans sitting on
my
workbench, which takes up WAY too much real estate.
I have been thinking about finding a compressor, but not sure how to
know if
it will have oil in the air.
Get a diaphram (vice piston) compressor. The only way it can have oil
in the output is if it is purposefully introduced.
- don
Another possible solution recently popped up.
Someone at work showed
me
canned air - that is rechargable. The can comes with a "charging bay"
which
is a little tiny stand with a tiny compressor in it. You push the
expired
canister down on it and the compressor clicks on and recharges the
can of
air. This seems like a really great idea to me... but I haven't
actually
used one - just seen it, so I don't know if these have their own
shortcomings. If not, I'd like to go buy one of these.
Jay West
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