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Air compressor owners - Questions for you!
crashwg:
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You'll also want a blow gun. No more buying canned air. Yea!
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For the love of the computer gods do not use the air from your compressor to clean electronics unless you've got some super duper moisture remover hooked up to that thing. I've seen water shoot out of the end of an air hose like a squirt gun!
Along the same lines, that moisture does bad things to your tools if you don't lubricate them regularly. Most of the time it is as easy as a couple drops into the air inlet before you start shootin.
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TOK:
I've been cleaning electronics out for like 7 years with a compressor. No line dryer and the only death they've experienced is obsolescence. Three of them live on in MAME cabs, all the way back to the Pentium 3 I have in my bartop.
If I'm filling a tire or blowing something off, I always hit the gun for a couple seconds before actually starting. Sometimes the air feels cold, but there has never been discernible moisture. I think if someone has water coming out like a squirt gun, they have major issues. They are either never venting the tank or storing the hose very poorly.
Necroticart:
Having used a compressor in the past for airbrush illustration I strongly recommend a moisture trap for any paint work
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: TOK on December 10, 2009, 10:00:57 pm ---I've been cleaning electronics out for like 7 years with a compressor. No line dryer and the only death they've experienced is obsolescence. Three of them live on in MAME cabs, all the way back to the Pentium 3 I have in my bartop.
If I'm filling a tire or blowing something off, I always hit the gun for a couple seconds before actually starting. Sometimes the air feels cold, but there has never been discernible moisture. I think if someone has water coming out like a squirt gun, they have major issues. They are either never venting the tank or storing the hose very poorly.
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Aren't most PC components washed in water at the manufacturers anyways? On top of that, my computers are more likely to die a horrible death from spilled soda, excessive cat hair or just being in the wrong place when the room floods.
Besides, I've got a 2 year old and a four week old. There is absolutely nothing a little condensation from an air hose will do that either the 2 year old or four week old can't do three times worse. ;D
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: TOK on December 10, 2009, 10:00:57 pm ---Sometimes the air feels cold
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Ah, you've met my friend the ideal gas law. Gas expands, pressure and temp drop. Often it'll get cold enough to condense the moisture right out.
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