just saw these at officeworks… 150ml of air fun! unsure if this is officeworks wide…
Can of Air Was $2.95 Now $1 Officeworks Oz Park WA (150ml)
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Come on, this is ozbargain.
Use your spare tyre as compressed air and then go and fill it back up for free at a petrol station.You're a genius!
These are terrible… you get what you pay for. They run out fairly quick and you can only use them in short bursts of 2-3 seconds before the can freezes up.
a true ozbargainer would use feature of the freeze bit to cool down a coke or beer!
I stocked up on 10 of these for my workplace but my manager gave them back to me stating how crap they were. Now we source them from Officemax — 350ml cans for a princely sum of $22 ea.
So, I now have 10 of these cans which are half full at home and don't have enough pressure to really clean out a heatsink, maybe I should use them as to make homebrew airsoft guns.
If you are buying that much compressed 'air' you'd be better off buying a small air compressor and using that instead. That's what I ended up using back when I worked in a computer shop.
This may sound a little nuts, but on really dusty computers I actually use a leaf blower. Take both side panels off the case, take the case outside and blast away. It doesn't get rid of 100% of the dust, but it gets most of it.
Besides, if a computer is dusty enough to need cleaning in this manner, I'd rather be getting rid of the dust outside than have it swirling around in the room I'm working in.
@mr626: Or MetroVac(edit: DataVac), Americans seem to rave about it. Not quite as cheap here, but if you go through a lot of canned air..
Yeah, I looked at one of these too, but at the time I think they were only 110v, so by the time you paid for overseas shipping and get a step-down transformer it was cheaper just to get the compressor.
Can they be had locally now? That's news to me.
Yeah, I did some research and it seems to be 110v only.
There is the canless O2 being sold by Thinkgeek but if search online on Amazon, the reviews are fairly mixed.
r' you'd be better off buying a small air compressor and using that instead. That's what I ended up using back when I worked in a computer shop.
Well, we use those cans for cleaning company laptops. The nozzles have to be thin enough so that you can shoot air into a laptop's heat vents. I borrow a leaf blower from the garden shed to periodically dust down desktops, but it obviously would be overkill for anything else.
Air compressors would be a little overpowered, it'll be like sandblasting rather than blowing air and secondly… don't these things shoot a little moisture? Would be bad if the compressor didn't have a water filter of some sort.
Agreed, these are terrible. The one that I bought from Officeworks spews out the propellant mostly in liquid form no matter how careful I am to hold the can upright. Be aware that if used on anything sensitive it could cause damage. At a minimum due to the freezing condensation forms. Certainly don't buy them for anything photo-related, but I suggest avoiding these altogether.
Do you know how expensive those freeze wart removers are?
One of these, upside down, a cotton bud. An Ozbargainer's wart remover!
That's the 400ml version, the one on special is 150ml.
Those babies online are 400ml, these are 150ml. I don't know why I felt the need to point that out :S
OK Cheers.
Nevermind, carry on :)
i usually get my air for free … can-free too
fart power?
While these are called 'compressed air', what's actually contained in them is Tetrafluoroethane, or some other type of fluorocarbon gas which is inert but is easily compressed into a liquid at moderate pressure.
TLDR it ain't breathable air
And if you fill a balloon with it, it falls to the ground very quickly… It is quite a big surprise surprise to see it as nobody is expecting this.
True Ozbargainers do not pay $6 for poo.
Just go to public toilets to collect them for free.
Tinned nothing.
jokes aside, it seems an okay deal for canned air.
Save 1.95 WOHOO
But that's bottled air. Cans keep the air heaps fresher.
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Huffers deal of the week. :/
I got sick of buying air, so I got the cheapest air compressor from Bunnings with a little trigger gun :)
Sounds like a good idea, how much? :D
It says it's free !, might try and get Master to price match and get 10% off free with the coupon earlier!!!!
Just make sure its got a water separator/trap inline to keep that moisture off your electronics..
Why did I immediately think of The Lorax…?
I might use it for cleaning the keyboard of all the little bits of crap that accumulated over time.
Perhaps a vacuum would be better there to suck the bits out.
Me, I would prefer something that sucks and blows.Me, I would prefer something that sucks and blows.
nevermind…
Papillon Soo Soo?
Best scene changing edit in any film, ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE
Pro tip: don't use your keyboard for wiping your butt.
Came for the Spaceballs jokes, was disappointed - http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2012/09/2012-09-17-spaceb…
Clicked on the link, was disappointed - 401 error
Dust
Remover ?First off - in case yuz didn't know - air's free. Second - these are rubbish as plenty above have said.
I hope so, happy PC cleaning everyone!
What else do you guys use it for btw?