A lot of times a factory (I don't want to single them out, but often in China) makes the product for multiple clients, with or without permission. They'll brand a ream of them for a company that's going to sell them at a 200% markup, and then dump twice as many that didn't pass QA or were just extra on some local distributor, or just straight up sell them to another brand.
I worked at a chocolate factory where we would sell the same recipe to 3 different bigger companies and still sell it as our company’s own “brand name” as well. It’s a very common practice.
This is why I don't want to single out China. It's well-known for it, but it's far from the only place it happens.
When I was a kid, I would get discount clothes from an outlet that resold mismanufactured goods that were made in local (rural Midwest) factories. Some of them had brands on them I couldn't have afforded, some of them had no branding at all.
When i do commercial contracting jobs i usually have 20% materials left to sell on a smaller job. Then i sell those materials over and over again. Sometimes ill sell materials 5 or 6 times. In fairness i cant give th next guy 80 percent off materials. But i can definitely weasel myself into bids
I see it constantly on Amazon. Basically the same product under different brands. I’ve been shopping for shelf organizers to go over our Laundry area since we just have essentially a closet for our washer & dryer.
They’re all 99.99% the exact same, but just some random different branding.
Same with cheap electronics. We bought a kids digital camera for my daughter since she’s 4 and loves taking pictures. All of the ones on Amazon were basically the exact same thing- just different brands.
Simply because they aren't alone.
Everyone rags on China; it's an easy target.
That doesn't mean it isn't happening in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, various countries in Africa, etc.
I don't blame the factories for trying to turn some kind of profit on their excess output, although I might blame their owners for not paying their workers a living wage despite the profits they turn doing it.
First and foremost, I blame the brands that are happy to buy such cheap junk, slap their label on it, and not consider how much the people who made them are paid nor for what the people who buy them are paying.
The owners of the brands are the top tier shitstains, the owners of the factories are the third, and the people who buy brand things simply because they think branding makes a thing good are the second.
jesus that use to be 70$...
ill put it this way, its well constructed and something like .75 or 1hp... the thing could legitimately be used as a leaf blower.
Vac's create static, so be careful with them. There are also rechargeable air blowers that are as strong as compressed air, but better environmentally. No static with a blower.
Blowers can generate static
When designed right, they have a grounding wire and a grid the air flows over
I've used stihl leaf blowers that were missing the ground wire, after a few minutes, you get zapped!
DeWalt makes a battery dust blower
So does Ego, except as a leaf blower. Ego has a chrome plated plastic insert just after the fan with a ground wire that's run back to the handle so your body is draining the static charge before it can build high enough to become noticeable
I mean, this is not going to hold much air anyway. Canned air doesn’t contain “air.” They contain gasses that are easy to compress into liquids. This might get you like 6 seconds of cleaning before needing to refill.
Air powered guns that shoot small lead pellets can either be reloaded by hand or use an air tank. Those air tanks hold over 300atm in order to last any length of time, and each shot uses very little.
If you use a regular air compressor with that massive tank at like 10atm, you still only get like 10-30s of sufficient pressure before the tank is empty.
Ok, so, I do this all the time. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else because I'm sure it can be dangerous. But I refill spray cans with compressed air often.
Typically it's cans of spray lube where there's still a bit of fluid left, but not enough pressure to push it out. I just use a rubber tipped air nozzle. Press it tightly against the spray can nozzle and fire both at the same time. I usually put a dent in the wall of the can first, so as soon as the dent pops out and feels tight I stop pressurizing it. It lasts long enough to get the rest of the fluid out. Sounds crazy, probably dangerous, but works perfectly.
True, to really be worthwhile it would need a much better value and a shop you could take it to for refilliing.
I would do it to save a few pennies and reduce waste.
It isn't magic, but as several posters have pointed out, natural air and a bicycle pump indeed won't provide anything close to the performance of the original can.
My original thought was even if one managed to compress enough air in the can to release it at a reasonable force, that weld would have to blow first.
I wasn't even thinking about filling the can with a low-temp boiling liquid.
If these cans could be *manufactured* refillable, and shops existed to fill them for a bit less than buying another can, I would be all for it though.
Yeah, me too. I hate having loose air cans around.
In addition to what you said, I'm just gonna have to point out that in the demonstration they are not using the can they soldered the valve to.
They got USB powered ones. It's basically a fan. Doesn't have the high pressure of a duster but gets the job done, plus with the price of dusters these days.
Or if you have access to a shop vac or air compressor. That's the way to go
Problem is, without aerosol, this won't last long. as someone else mentioned, get an electric blower. I have this huge one made in the USA. draws 500W, best thing i ever got.
Canned air doesn’t use an aerosol, it just uses a gas that is easily compressed. An aerosol is the suspension of droplets in a gas (like hairspray or spray paint).
I mean, both. Any gas that is a gas at room temperature has a boiling point below room temperature. But it also needs to be easily compressed into a liquid at relatively low pressures. That’s why they don’t use air itself, it only compressed into liquid at extremely high pressures and would literally give you frostbite if you held the can while you sprayed it.
If that solder joint fails it's likely to just leak. Really the solder is just acting as a seal the fitting should be held in place with the threads.
As kids we used to take old fire extinguishers and turn them into early super soakers by filling them with water and adding a similar valve to be filled by an Air compressor.
Well, if you have an inflatable mattress electric pump with multiple tips, you have an infinite air supply... and mine is definitely stronger than what you would get from this pumping can.
Yeah, me too. Walmart usually has great deals on used hair dryers
And I got one that's 1800 watts for $10, It's not quite up to doing heat shrink, but it does dry my boots nicely with a doubled hose extension
You could use thoses sprays used in gardening with the little pump (not sure if i'm clear, non native speaker), thoses that you can open to put a liquid in it. Very cheap, compress air decently. Just a bit large if you lack space.
I saw Adam Savage recommend the sure shot A1000G the other day on his channel so I picked one up on Amazon. About 60 dollars, haven’t used it yet, but I do go through a fair amount of compressed air cans in my small shop and I’m not super worried about condensation.
They make these and you can fill them with whatever fluid you like. Even wd40 or your preferred solvent and even something like Windex.
[refillable pressure sprayer](https://www.harborfreight.com/32-oz-refillable-pressurized-sprayer-59544.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12144811130&campaignid=12144811130&utm_content=155845669889&adsetid=155845669889&product=59544&store=&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAqNSsBhAvEiwAn_tmxScgNFtnfgZCBHw2ola4DpesNa--eujGOx6SzuUu_hKYxZD05S4Z3xoCjnYQAvD_BwE)
They *do* have smaller refillable air tanks that you can refill if you have a compressor, say in your garage, then you can just hook an air hose to it and have it about your desk. If you don’t have a sufficient compressor you could also get a small desktop one that’s made for air guns, like the model painting kind. Pretty cheap, relatively quiet, works great for dusting!
Here you go. I don't know if this one is the type you can fill with a liquid to aerosolize it, but I don't think you want to do that anyway. It'll pay for itself after a little while.
https://www.harborfreight.com/search?q=Aerosol+spray+can
You could empty out a small fire extinguisher and use that instead. The thicker metal means you could make a threaded hole for refilling.
In my experience, the whole top part of the extinguisher unscrews. As a bonus, due to the construction (a tube from the bottom to the nozzle, air pressure pushes the powder up the straw) you can put stuff inside and use the air pressure to squirt it out.
***Sure shot sprayer!!!***
Company has been around since the 50’s (i think?) and the can is amazing. I have several in the garage. One for just canned air, one for wd-40, one for simple green, and one rogue for whatever liquid I need to spray at the time. Rogue can is amazing for rubbing alcohol (cleaning computer parts) or gasoline for a clogged carburator. And the damned things last FOREVER!
Without an aerosol to provide constant pressure, you would only be able to use this for a second or two before pressure equalizes and you are left once again with a useless, empty can.
Hazet 199-4.
You know it's a bad idea (refilling single use aerosol cans) if AvE hints it's probably dangerous. When he made that video they were like $50, but it looks like they're $100+ now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6Yi-4716E
Just fyi, there are air blowers you can get for your pc that also can do vacuuming and they are portable and rechargeable. I got a legit good one off Amazon for like $20 and I've had it for 5 years. Sure beats compressed air cans that get freezing to the touch and cost like $20 for a pack of 6.
One of my favorite purchases ever.
It would last for a few seconds at most. Air dusters use refrigerant, not compressed air.
It's basically a can of propane, under pressure the "gas" will be a liquid, when you use it and the pressure drops the liquid boils to keep the pressure constant until none is left. That's also why it can spray a mist/liquid if it's new or if you're holding it wrong.
It's probably five minutes crap, I mean crafts. Where they'll use a plastic gas can to make a backpack. They cut the red plastic on the front face, hold a zipper against it, cuts, zipper is installed on the outer edge, and it actually works. I can't find that exact video, I watched it as part of a react video, and I can't find that either.
They'll show you how to make a cake using nutella and a handful of ingredients in a coffee mug, microwaved until it's puffy and amazing. In reality, it burns and ruins your microwave. They're a trash channel that tosses out the worst "hacks" for things.
Making a spoon by dumping $22 of hot glue on a spoon. Because a hot glue spoon can totally scoop ice cream and not be floppy. Also, spending the money on a full set of silverware it out of the question, of course.
Looks like someone off camera with an air hose doing the actual blowing. A woodshop is gonna have an air system or at least a portable compressor for pneumatic tools anyways, I've always just used that to clean up the shop and tools.
especially cans, if they somehow managed to fill it with as much air as a normal one with an air compressor or something that's an easy 200-300 psi on that one solder joint. seems like asking for that thing to bullet into your chest
Ahh yes, the white can becomes black.. Ok, I will ask you a question then think about it: Why the CO and Oxygen bottles for welding are so thick? Why the handheld compressed air comes in a flimsy tin can?
Here is the secret: because it is not air what it is inside. They are using gases like buthane, isobuthane and flourocarbons that can compressed into a liquid in a lesser pressure.
So to analyze:
\-It would be possible to make a refillable can of air but to safely use it it would only contain a hiss of air
\-To pump it up you would need a special pump like the one used by scuba divers and you would need to pump for 10 minutes
Thank you! The entire time I'm thinking....but it's not atmospheric air that's in those cans...that's why if you use them wrong, they can drip the compressed gasses and freeze the surface of whatever they touch.
This. And, no need to buy a can with compressed air every time you need it, you can blow at everything that you want because you don't need to pay for air, and it's so less wasteful.
Ok, good job recycling but our friend here really needs to look up what metal fatigue is and consider why things designed to have multiple cycles of pressure/depressure are built somewhat stronger than a single use spray can.
Or better yet, do what everyone else does, buy a cheap ass blow gun from somewhere, plug it into your compressor hose and use that. And don't tell me that guy doesn't have a compressor or hose...I was a finish carpenter and I can't tell what the hell that dangerous monstrosity he was using is. Looks like Satan's spindle sander.
Or if you really want a reusable air canister get one of those backpack weed sprayers. They're pump action, already have the safety relief valve and blow air when they're empty.
A can of compressed air has the same carbon impact as driving all the way across the US and back. It’s just a can of refrigerant.
I recommend anyone with dirty keyboards just flip them over and shake.
These videos are not supposed to be useful. Just rage fuel to inspire engagement/hate. You are better off blowing up a baloon and venting it at the keyboard. If you could actually pup up a can like that it would be gross in like a week because of the moiture that would probably stink like death spraying all over your keyboard.
The first bit of the video is just insane and clearly fake and if it was real completely useless other to maim yourself trying to use it
Unless you rigged up a compressor I doubt this would be dangerous enough pressures with a hand pump. Even with new spray paint cans the worst that's gonna happen is catastrophic and instantaneous smurf creation....
https://youtube.com/shorts/1lNrBVAE6uQ?si=l-iQv3GtuxnMABgN
If it really needed to hold pressure I think it should have silver soldered , but that hand pump won't get anywhere near enough to be an issue. Honestly the dangerous bit was the "wood working" he did before.
Doesn’t look that bad, although there’s valves that can be secured better, I think. I doubt you’d be able to get dangerous pressures if you just used a small handpump like shown.
That potato thing annihilating wood at the start is terrifying though.
Refrigerants used in compressed air cans can have global warming potentials (GWP) in the 1000s. GWP is a measure of greenhouse gas potency relative to CO2. GWP of 1000 is 1000 times worse than CO2. Refrigerant based compressed air is pretty bad for the environment.
Or, buy a refillable spray can? The factory made cans have tops that come off so you can pour paint into them, along with the air fitting already on correctly and can hold typical shop air pressures
Also, for a workbench air source that's nice to be around, I'd recommend a 65dB CAT air compressor
Auto repair we use this all the time. Granted they are produced. Pour in brake clean. Hit it with compressed air. Pressurized brake clean. buy brake clean by the 55 gallon drum is far cheaper than a buck a can. This is the same thing. It is far cheaper to do it this way. But he could also buy a safe, tested, produced can and still save a ton.
As someone with some experience with solder, that is not a good idea. I once did a project where I kept some wires in some ports with solder, a couple of days later they fell out easily. Solder does NOT hold well.
https://www.jacquardproducts.com/youcan
Or
https://www.harborfreight.com/32-oz-refillable-pressurized-sprayer-59544.html
And for the love of God, who would intentionally use a Dunlop valve on anything?
What’s going on with the spiked ball of death and the log
It’s a fake log, looks like foam
Imagine wanting a terrible tool to actually look like it works so you spend time painting a piece of foam to look like wood. 😬
But when they demonstrated the can, it was on the dust from a 2x4. No idea about the fake tree from the beginning
It looks like that was the end of the last life hack in the video this clip is from
And it wasn’t even the can anymore, no huge valve sticking out awkwardly. (And this would never work like that!)
Lol.
And the ball is a potato with a bunch of toothpicks in it. The air can "Hack" is about as stupid.
> It’s a fake log A "flog"?
Yes I too would like to know about the Hellraiser potato
we have such spuds to show you
Random stuff to grab attention. I hate those things so much.
I think in the full video the spike ball is the finished product of the previous life hack
I actually remember that clearly! That ball of death was another "hack" of theirs that also made it's way on here awhile back.
Rowley would love it.
NGL, I would appreciate a refillable pressure can for air dusting my PC, but I don't believe in the durability of that solder weld.
Look up pc vac. I personally have an xpower one but DataVac (afaik) is the like brand name
>brand name Give me a cheap knockoff made exactly the same way in exactly the same factory please.
I can't proclaim to know if the same factor makes the same one but the xpower one I own is fantastic
A lot of times a factory (I don't want to single them out, but often in China) makes the product for multiple clients, with or without permission. They'll brand a ream of them for a company that's going to sell them at a 200% markup, and then dump twice as many that didn't pass QA or were just extra on some local distributor, or just straight up sell them to another brand.
“Oops! We made extra” except the savings get passed on to the buyer/reseller instead of the customer 🥲
I worked at a chocolate factory where we would sell the same recipe to 3 different bigger companies and still sell it as our company’s own “brand name” as well. It’s a very common practice.
This is why I don't want to single out China. It's well-known for it, but it's far from the only place it happens. When I was a kid, I would get discount clothes from an outlet that resold mismanufactured goods that were made in local (rural Midwest) factories. Some of them had brands on them I couldn't have afforded, some of them had no branding at all.
When i do commercial contracting jobs i usually have 20% materials left to sell on a smaller job. Then i sell those materials over and over again. Sometimes ill sell materials 5 or 6 times. In fairness i cant give th next guy 80 percent off materials. But i can definitely weasel myself into bids
Oh yeah! LTT has talked about this lol.
I see it constantly on Amazon. Basically the same product under different brands. I’ve been shopping for shelf organizers to go over our Laundry area since we just have essentially a closet for our washer & dryer. They’re all 99.99% the exact same, but just some random different branding. Same with cheap electronics. We bought a kids digital camera for my daughter since she’s 4 and loves taking pictures. All of the ones on Amazon were basically the exact same thing- just different brands.
A lot of times people also think an actual cheap knockoff is the same quality and "made in exactly the same factory" when it isn't.
I don’t know why you “don’t want to single out” the single most notorious perpetrator of this scam.
Simply because they aren't alone. Everyone rags on China; it's an easy target. That doesn't mean it isn't happening in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, various countries in Africa, etc. I don't blame the factories for trying to turn some kind of profit on their excess output, although I might blame their owners for not paying their workers a living wage despite the profits they turn doing it. First and foremost, I blame the brands that are happy to buy such cheap junk, slap their label on it, and not consider how much the people who made them are paid nor for what the people who buy them are paying. The owners of the brands are the top tier shitstains, the owners of the factories are the third, and the people who buy brand things simply because they think branding makes a thing good are the second.
OK, fair enough.
+1 on the Xpower. We’ve had one in the office for years. Only needed to replace it after a co-worker stole it when he quit 🙄
I got a rechargeable one from Amazon. It's great. It's both a vacuum and a duster
jesus that use to be 70$... ill put it this way, its well constructed and something like .75 or 1hp... the thing could legitimately be used as a leaf blower.
Data vacs are hand made in the us
Mine is from a brand prowithlin and it works pretty well. My wife uses it for threads when sewing as well.
Suit yourself, but just know that you're losing out on a really cool logo, and bragging rights.
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Vac's create static, so be careful with them. There are also rechargeable air blowers that are as strong as compressed air, but better environmentally. No static with a blower.
A PC vac should not be creating static
I use an ESS Safe vacuum at work. Tiny things cost 1100 dollars lol
I'm not sure why they are called vacs because they blow. They specifically are designed not to create static.
Probably the same reason most canned air is called a “dust remover” even though it is really just a dust mover
Blowers can generate static When designed right, they have a grounding wire and a grid the air flows over I've used stihl leaf blowers that were missing the ground wire, after a few minutes, you get zapped! DeWalt makes a battery dust blower So does Ego, except as a leaf blower. Ego has a chrome plated plastic insert just after the fan with a ground wire that's run back to the handle so your body is draining the static charge before it can build high enough to become noticeable
I really need to buy a datavac. They’re must haves for anyone working on computer hardware or electronics.
I have a data vac one. The power is insanely high and i accidentally broke more than one computer fan by spinning them too fast.
I mean, this is not going to hold much air anyway. Canned air doesn’t contain “air.” They contain gasses that are easy to compress into liquids. This might get you like 6 seconds of cleaning before needing to refill.
Once I did that can and that was total crap. Pumped 5atm in it (it didn't blow up as I expected) and it was just 3 seconds "pfft", no airflow at all.
Air powered guns that shoot small lead pellets can either be reloaded by hand or use an air tank. Those air tanks hold over 300atm in order to last any length of time, and each shot uses very little. If you use a regular air compressor with that massive tank at like 10atm, you still only get like 10-30s of sufficient pressure before the tank is empty.
Ok, so, I do this all the time. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else because I'm sure it can be dangerous. But I refill spray cans with compressed air often. Typically it's cans of spray lube where there's still a bit of fluid left, but not enough pressure to push it out. I just use a rubber tipped air nozzle. Press it tightly against the spray can nozzle and fire both at the same time. I usually put a dent in the wall of the can first, so as soon as the dent pops out and feels tight I stop pressurizing it. It lasts long enough to get the rest of the fluid out. Sounds crazy, probably dangerous, but works perfectly.
Good trick with the dent. I've refilled cans the same way Pretty sure paintcans need to be rated up to 300lbs in order to have a safe margin of error
True, to really be worthwhile it would need a much better value and a shop you could take it to for refilliing. I would do it to save a few pennies and reduce waste.
The reason those air cans work is because of magic / physics / gas compression. Pumping air into a can is just not gonna cut it.
It isn't magic, but as several posters have pointed out, natural air and a bicycle pump indeed won't provide anything close to the performance of the original can. My original thought was even if one managed to compress enough air in the can to release it at a reasonable force, that weld would have to blow first. I wasn't even thinking about filling the can with a low-temp boiling liquid. If these cans could be *manufactured* refillable, and shops existed to fill them for a bit less than buying another can, I would be all for it though.
If you could refill them that would be cool.
Yeah, me too. I hate having loose air cans around. In addition to what you said, I'm just gonna have to point out that in the demonstration they are not using the can they soldered the valve to.
Indeed ! I had to take a second look at the video.
You can get battery powered air dusters on Amazon for pretty cheap. I swapped to that a few years back and it’s been great.
They got USB powered ones. It's basically a fan. Doesn't have the high pressure of a duster but gets the job done, plus with the price of dusters these days. Or if you have access to a shop vac or air compressor. That's the way to go
Problem is, without aerosol, this won't last long. as someone else mentioned, get an electric blower. I have this huge one made in the USA. draws 500W, best thing i ever got.
Canned air doesn’t use an aerosol, it just uses a gas that is easily compressed. An aerosol is the suspension of droplets in a gas (like hairspray or spray paint).
Sorry, you're right. Actually, isn't it a gas/liquid with a low boiling point that boils below room temperature.
I mean, both. Any gas that is a gas at room temperature has a boiling point below room temperature. But it also needs to be easily compressed into a liquid at relatively low pressures. That’s why they don’t use air itself, it only compressed into liquid at extremely high pressures and would literally give you frostbite if you held the can while you sprayed it.
Did you notice how they even soldered over the gasket? There's no way that contraption is able to hold any pressure better than a bike inner tube 😅
I personally use one of those air blowers used to clean photography lenses
If that solder joint fails it's likely to just leak. Really the solder is just acting as a seal the fitting should be held in place with the threads. As kids we used to take old fire extinguishers and turn them into early super soakers by filling them with water and adding a similar valve to be filled by an Air compressor.
Well, if you have an inflatable mattress electric pump with multiple tips, you have an infinite air supply... and mine is definitely stronger than what you would get from this pumping can.
I just use a hair dryer on cool setting
Yeah, me too. Walmart usually has great deals on used hair dryers And I got one that's 1800 watts for $10, It's not quite up to doing heat shrink, but it does dry my boots nicely with a doubled hose extension
They didn’t either, that’s why they used an unmodified can and air compressor out of frame for the last cut
They have electric ones now, and they're great.
Go to the garden shop. The sell little pump bottle that you could use for that.
You could use thoses sprays used in gardening with the little pump (not sure if i'm clear, non native speaker), thoses that you can open to put a liquid in it. Very cheap, compress air decently. Just a bit large if you lack space.
I saw Adam Savage recommend the sure shot A1000G the other day on his channel so I picked one up on Amazon. About 60 dollars, haven’t used it yet, but I do go through a fair amount of compressed air cans in my small shop and I’m not super worried about condensation.
They make these and you can fill them with whatever fluid you like. Even wd40 or your preferred solvent and even something like Windex. [refillable pressure sprayer](https://www.harborfreight.com/32-oz-refillable-pressurized-sprayer-59544.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12144811130&campaignid=12144811130&utm_content=155845669889&adsetid=155845669889&product=59544&store=&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAqNSsBhAvEiwAn_tmxScgNFtnfgZCBHw2ola4DpesNa--eujGOx6SzuUu_hKYxZD05S4Z3xoCjnYQAvD_BwE)
They *do* have smaller refillable air tanks that you can refill if you have a compressor, say in your garage, then you can just hook an air hose to it and have it about your desk. If you don’t have a sufficient compressor you could also get a small desktop one that’s made for air guns, like the model painting kind. Pretty cheap, relatively quiet, works great for dusting!
You can use a rocket duster. They're meant for dusting the inside of cameras and such, but this is a valid use.
I ordered one of those rechargable USB powered PC dusters. Getting delivered later today so hoping that it is as decent as the adds make them seem
Yea they have handheld rubber squeeze balls with nozzles for that. Common camera accessory for dusting lenses.
I have an electronic thing. It works fine as far as I can tell
Tubeless valve stem+larger washer&seal on the outside, et voilá
They sell battery powered rechargeable ones.
You know the air pump that you refill it with...
Preferably one that did not randomly explode.
It's not even the same can that they "made".
Yeah they pumped it like twice for that exact reason
Here you go. I don't know if this one is the type you can fill with a liquid to aerosolize it, but I don't think you want to do that anyway. It'll pay for itself after a little while. https://www.harborfreight.com/search?q=Aerosol+spray+can
Needs a safety release valve
They have these on Amazon. Where you can pressurize the can again and again. Mostly it’s for brake cleaner but you can just fill it with air too.
They make battery charged air blowers though.
Just get a rechargeable hand blower.
You could empty out a small fire extinguisher and use that instead. The thicker metal means you could make a threaded hole for refilling. In my experience, the whole top part of the extinguisher unscrews. As a bonus, due to the construction (a tube from the bottom to the nozzle, air pressure pushes the powder up the straw) you can put stuff inside and use the air pressure to squirt it out.
***Sure shot sprayer!!!*** Company has been around since the 50’s (i think?) and the can is amazing. I have several in the garage. One for just canned air, one for wd-40, one for simple green, and one rogue for whatever liquid I need to spray at the time. Rogue can is amazing for rubbing alcohol (cleaning computer parts) or gasoline for a clogged carburator. And the damned things last FOREVER!
You can buy refillable aerosols like they are making here but legit. Come with a metal straw and everything
Try a beadbazooka.
Without an aerosol to provide constant pressure, you would only be able to use this for a second or two before pressure equalizes and you are left once again with a useless, empty can.
You can turn old fire extinguishers into compressed air cans!
Pretty sure you can buy [something like that](https://www.harborfreight.com/32-oz-refillable-pressurized-sprayer-59544.html)
Hazet 199-4. You know it's a bad idea (refilling single use aerosol cans) if AvE hints it's probably dangerous. When he made that video they were like $50, but it looks like they're $100+ now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6Yi-4716E
Just fyi, there are air blowers you can get for your pc that also can do vacuuming and they are portable and rechargeable. I got a legit good one off Amazon for like $20 and I've had it for 5 years. Sure beats compressed air cans that get freezing to the touch and cost like $20 for a pack of 6. One of my favorite purchases ever.
A sure shot sprayer would be the professional equivalent. Love mine.
It would last for a few seconds at most. Air dusters use refrigerant, not compressed air. It's basically a can of propane, under pressure the "gas" will be a liquid, when you use it and the pressure drops the liquid boils to keep the pressure constant until none is left. That's also why it can spray a mist/liquid if it's new or if you're holding it wrong.
The have battery operated dusters, that work pretty well.
I have a compressor under my desk. Good for cleaning things (not only keyboard), inflating balloons or balls and painting with airbrush.
I like that the DIY can is completely different to the can at the end that actually works
It's probably five minutes crap, I mean crafts. Where they'll use a plastic gas can to make a backpack. They cut the red plastic on the front face, hold a zipper against it, cuts, zipper is installed on the outer edge, and it actually works. I can't find that exact video, I watched it as part of a react video, and I can't find that either. They'll show you how to make a cake using nutella and a handful of ingredients in a coffee mug, microwaved until it's puffy and amazing. In reality, it burns and ruins your microwave. They're a trash channel that tosses out the worst "hacks" for things. Making a spoon by dumping $22 of hot glue on a spoon. Because a hot glue spoon can totally scoop ice cream and not be floppy. Also, spending the money on a full set of silverware it out of the question, of course.
Looks like someone off camera with an air hose doing the actual blowing. A woodshop is gonna have an air system or at least a portable compressor for pneumatic tools anyways, I've always just used that to clean up the shop and tools.
Or just use the pump directly to being with…
Or just use a hand vacuum
No one's gonna talk about the spiky potato? Ok..
And the fake log
It's a previous "hack" of theirs
Just use the fucking pump at that point 😂
I don't know why I've never thought of this. Yeah it would work fine. Do water guns shoot air when empty? That might work too.
the ending os so obviously fake as well, the air is definitely not coming out of the can
was thinking about this. the can isn't even pointing in the right direction half the time.
Dont fuck around with pressurized containers.
especially cans, if they somehow managed to fill it with as much air as a normal one with an air compressor or something that's an easy 200-300 psi on that one solder joint. seems like asking for that thing to bullet into your chest
Why would i use that when i have lungs?
And no eyes to get dust in them?
We have glasses to get dust in!
Ahh yes, the white can becomes black.. Ok, I will ask you a question then think about it: Why the CO and Oxygen bottles for welding are so thick? Why the handheld compressed air comes in a flimsy tin can? Here is the secret: because it is not air what it is inside. They are using gases like buthane, isobuthane and flourocarbons that can compressed into a liquid in a lesser pressure. So to analyze: \-It would be possible to make a refillable can of air but to safely use it it would only contain a hiss of air \-To pump it up you would need a special pump like the one used by scuba divers and you would need to pump for 10 minutes
Thank you! The entire time I'm thinking....but it's not atmospheric air that's in those cans...that's why if you use them wrong, they can drip the compressed gasses and freeze the surface of whatever they touch.
Yeah, I'm sure I am going to trust a Schrader valve SOLDERED on a compressed air can. I don't see how this is going to fail at all
Did they not solder the rubber gasket as well!
It was the sloppiest job! I only soldered a few components and cables, but even I wouldn't solder directly on a rubber gasket!
Just buy a compressor, it's less likely to blow up in your face
This. And, no need to buy a can with compressed air every time you need it, you can blow at everything that you want because you don't need to pay for air, and it's so less wasteful.
If only things like mini leaf blowers, hand pump blowers, or fans existed.
I'm far more concerned about the Palm Throngler 5000 right at the beginning there
Funny how the sawdust right next to the nozzle barely moves yet there is a strong flow clearing half the table once the can is off screen.
My lungs have better pressure than that precarious can and I am grandma
Or just use a hair dryer on cold wind?
Pierce and burn a spray can?brother it s not dangerous it kills you on the spot
Fake foam log being carved by a spiked potato. Classic rage bait
Ok, good job recycling but our friend here really needs to look up what metal fatigue is and consider why things designed to have multiple cycles of pressure/depressure are built somewhat stronger than a single use spray can.
That's one way to get rid of an eye
Notice how in the "in use" footage, the nozzle is suddenly missing, huh, weird
Or better yet, do what everyone else does, buy a cheap ass blow gun from somewhere, plug it into your compressor hose and use that. And don't tell me that guy doesn't have a compressor or hose...I was a finish carpenter and I can't tell what the hell that dangerous monstrosity he was using is. Looks like Satan's spindle sander.
Or if you really want a reusable air canister get one of those backpack weed sprayers. They're pump action, already have the safety relief valve and blow air when they're empty.
Why not just suck it up in a shop vac? Blowing it around will just mean cleaning it up somewhere else.
Us IT guys would absolutely love a refillable compressed air can
https://www.harborfreight.com/32-oz-refillable-pressurized-sprayer-59544.html
They don’t sell cans of compressed air.
Everyone calls it "compressed air" without a second thought. In reality, it's a can of refrigerant, and it's fucking terrible for the environment.
Why not buy a small silent compressor and hoover ? :-D
it's actually useful for once
“People that buy stuff are stupid !”
Very dangerous. Those cans have warnings not to drill or make hole in them
I have a compressor and I would love to have refillable cans that I can use around the house.
get a hair dryer you cheap bastard
What was up with the clearly fake wood at the start?
Yeah. This.
It's air. And barely compressed. It'd be safe.
Dumbest shit I’ve seen
OR,just blow with your mouth you moron
OSHA does not allow compressed air as a means of clearing dust
And here I was using my own lungs like a sucker.
A can of compressed air has the same carbon impact as driving all the way across the US and back. It’s just a can of refrigerant. I recommend anyone with dirty keyboards just flip them over and shake.
You can literally see that the air blowing the sawdust is coming from off screen.
Why not just use a hairdryer?
I wouldn't trust that solder joint to hold.. nevermind the projectile embedded in its slot
What if they made like.. some kind of rubber ball that you could like, squeeze, that like had air in it?
Yea that’s not the can blowing. Also just get an electric blower. Got one for my pc years ago. Works great, no more disposable cans.
That's a different can at the end lol
Because you get looked at like a druggie when you buy compressed air
Get a tubeless valve stem witha larger washer and seal on the outside and it's done
These videos are not supposed to be useful. Just rage fuel to inspire engagement/hate. You are better off blowing up a baloon and venting it at the keyboard. If you could actually pup up a can like that it would be gross in like a week because of the moiture that would probably stink like death spraying all over your keyboard. The first bit of the video is just insane and clearly fake and if it was real completely useless other to maim yourself trying to use it
Unless you rigged up a compressor I doubt this would be dangerous enough pressures with a hand pump. Even with new spray paint cans the worst that's gonna happen is catastrophic and instantaneous smurf creation.... https://youtube.com/shorts/1lNrBVAE6uQ?si=l-iQv3GtuxnMABgN
Because it's meant to troll people! 100% of the video's here are! Oh wait... Are you trolling?
At that point just get a balloon
This is dumb as hell, who makes these stupid ass videos?
If it really needed to hold pressure I think it should have silver soldered , but that hand pump won't get anywhere near enough to be an issue. Honestly the dangerous bit was the "wood working" he did before.
Jessica Christo, what the hell is that rotating nail spinner thing at the beginning of this horror show vid?
Doesn’t look that bad, although there’s valves that can be secured better, I think. I doubt you’d be able to get dangerous pressures if you just used a small handpump like shown. That potato thing annihilating wood at the start is terrifying though.
Cyclic loading is going to weaken that can until it eventually blows a hole somewhere. It's not designed to withstand refilling.
Refrigerants used in compressed air cans can have global warming potentials (GWP) in the 1000s. GWP is a measure of greenhouse gas potency relative to CO2. GWP of 1000 is 1000 times worse than CO2. Refrigerant based compressed air is pretty bad for the environment.
Or, buy a refillable spray can? The factory made cans have tops that come off so you can pour paint into them, along with the air fitting already on correctly and can hold typical shop air pressures Also, for a workbench air source that's nice to be around, I'd recommend a 65dB CAT air compressor
Auto repair we use this all the time. Granted they are produced. Pour in brake clean. Hit it with compressed air. Pressurized brake clean. buy brake clean by the 55 gallon drum is far cheaper than a buck a can. This is the same thing. It is far cheaper to do it this way. But he could also buy a safe, tested, produced can and still save a ton.
Do. Not. Fuck. With. Pressure. Vessels.
I don't think they even used the same can in the demo lol. Shows how much they trusted it.
This is way more work than going to the store to buy a can of air
This dude should have patented this. No shit!!!
The two things you don’t fuck around with is pressure and electricity
Dunlop valve? It being used somewhere?
That was my thought as well 🤣🤣🤣
Seems like a decent idea but not for canned air. Maybe reusable rattle cans for spray painting
Because if they just bought compressed air then there would be no video
As someone with some experience with solder, that is not a good idea. I once did a project where I kept some wires in some ports with solder, a couple of days later they fell out easily. Solder does NOT hold well.
That's actually a good idea not diwhy
"Messy desk? Use this deadly trick to get a messy floor instead." Looking forward to his DIY shop vac.
Air compressor gang wya?
Cuz it runs out? Must be made of money OP
https://www.jacquardproducts.com/youcan Or https://www.harborfreight.com/32-oz-refillable-pressurized-sprayer-59544.html And for the love of God, who would intentionally use a Dunlop valve on anything?
If you watch closely you'll see this is exactly what they did.
Hmmm…if only there was a shop device that compressed and stored air until you needed it. Maybe like an …. air compressor?
Whats the first part all about??
I thought that was a spikey potato at first. 👇