Compressed Air is too useful.

[AstralFire]

I just bought two cans on Saturday and both are almost empty. (I used them concurrently to keep one hand from freezing too much.)

My computer hadn't been cleaned in half a year and I found it useful for cleaning all of the one piece fans we have that can't be taken apart...

[Flickerdart]

I'm sure the One Piece fans are still enough in their right mind to clean themselves. It's some of those other animes you have to worry about... :smalltongue:

[Innis Cabal]

I'm sure the One Piece fans are still enough in their right mind to clean themselves. It's some of those other animes you have to worry about... :smalltongue:

You need banned. Your awesomeness has exceeded forum limits and we can't contain you without severe risk to the server load.

[AstralFire]

I'm sure the One Piece fans are still enough in their right mind to clean themselves. It's some of those other animes you have to worry about... :smalltongue:

Huh? What are you...

http://www.theanteheroes.com/Humor/Wellplayed.jpg
Well played, sir.

http://www.theanteheroes.com/Humor/wellplayed2.jpg
Well. Played.

[Gorgondantess]

Too useful? You can never get enough compressed air. Just watch Mythbusters.:smallcool:

[loopy]

Thats right! Compressed air *is* too useful! I demand it be made less so!

[Evil DM Mark3]

I, I, I have no idea what is going on in this thread.

Like, at all.

I can't even work out the original post, let alone the anime referance...

Help me...

[kpenguin]

I'm sure the One Piece fans are still enough in their right mind to clean themselves. It's some of those other animes you have to worry about... :smalltongue:

Also, I'm quite sure you can take apart a One Piece fan... quite... easily...

[AstralFire]

I, I, I have no idea what is going on in this thread.

Like, at all.

I can't even work out the original post, let alone the anime referance...

Help me...

I bought two cans of compressed air on Saturday. They're empty half a week later because I keep finding hard-to-clean things that they can, in fact, seriously help clean. I was complaining about the fact that it's too useful, meaning I never have it on hand more than a month.

[Evil DM Mark3]

I bought two cans of compressed air on Saturday. They're empty half a week later because I keep finding hard-to-clean things that they can, in fact, seriously help clean. I was complaining about the fact that it's too useful, meaning I never have it on hand more than a month.You can buy cans of compressed air? OK, I can see how that works. Or at least how one might make and use them. But how about the anime referances? How did that happen?

[Faulty]

I think in an episode of Burn Notice, Michael and Fiona used compressed air and a hammer to break into a storage unit.

[AstralFire]

You can buy cans of compressed air? OK, I can see how that works. Or at least how one might make and use them. But how about the anime referances? How did that happen?

I was using them to clean the fans we have around the house that are made of one piece/large piece plastic molds that aren't meant to be taken apart outside of the factory, and thus can't be disassembled to be cleaned like a traditional fan can.

I said 'one piece fan'. Trust me, I was confused at first by the anime discussion switcharoo too.

[Recaiden]

Is it at all reasonable to get your own air compressor?

[thubby]

Is it at all reasonable to get your own air compressor?

depends on how big/expensive it is. my car came with a relatively wimpy one...

[Boo]

You know it's too useful when you can use it to break into peoples homes and kill them.

[Catch]

depends on how big/expensive it is. my car came with a relatively wimpy one...

This (http://www.gizmag.com/compressed-air-car-set-for-us-launch-in-2010/8896/) car runs on one.

[skywalker]

You need banned. Your awesomeness has exceeded forum limits and we can't contain you without severe risk to the server load.

+1


I think in an episode of Burn Notice, Michael and Fiona used compressed air and a hammer to break into a storage unit.

I've always wondered whether this was actually possible...

[Milskidasith]

Mythbusters uses compressed air as much as, if not more than, they use sheer force of awesome and high explosives. It is awesome.

[horngeek]

Thank you for nearly killing me from laughing.

That's the best pun I've ever heard.

[Jack Squat]

I've always wondered whether this was actually possible...

It's possible...holding the can upside down cools down the metal fast and enough to make it fairly brittle. Liquid nitrogen would probably work better, and isn't exactly hard to come by.

[AstralFire]

I have cryogenically frozen ants alive with upside down compressed air.

Ten cans.

Building infested. No pesticide.

Freeze ants. Pick up off the wall with duct tape. Light duct tape on fire in trashbin with roommate's Axe spray and a lighter. Any that I missed picking up with the tape actually would start moving again after a half-hour or so to thaw.

Ants lost interest in coming to my room much faster than anyone else's on the floor. I wonder why. (Also I made sure to destroy their scent trail through my room utterly.)

[Zuki]

How do you take out an ant scent trail? I'd read before that was a useful thing to do when you've got problems with them, but I hadn't followed up.

...Also, yeah, I can totally see you doing that to ants.

[Player_Zero]

I'm sure the One Piece fans are still enough in their right mind to clean themselves. It's some of those other animes you have to worry about... :smalltongue:

Right mind you say?

[Recaiden]

Right mind you say?

You lent that part to Rutskarn, remember? That's why he writes stories and you do maths.

[AstralFire]

How do you take out an ant scent trail? I'd read before that was a useful thing to do when you've got problems with them, but I hadn't followed up.

...Also, yeah, I can totally see you doing that to ants.

Scented soap.

[Keld Denar]

Compressed air + flying insects = HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT!

lulz ^ n

[Mr. Mud]

I think in an episode of Burn Notice, Michael and Fiona used compressed air and a hammer to break into a storage unit.

I was actually just thinking about that. Any truth in this?

[Jack Squat]

I was actually just thinking about that. Any truth in this?

I may test this with actual padlocks tomorrow. It works in theory. As I posted above, all you need to do is get the metal brittle enough.

Anyone have a clip of the scene in question? I'm assuming it's against a normal keyed master lock and you use a can of compressed air (upside-down) and a normal claw hammer.

[TheThan]

I've got an air compressor for such jobs. though it doesn't get cold enough to do anything cool like cryogenicly freeze ants.

hehe i made a funny

[Jack Squat]

I may test this with actual padlocks tomorrow. It works in theory. As I posted above, all you need to do is get the metal brittle enough.

Anyone have a clip of the scene in question? I'm assuming it's against a normal keyed master lock and you use a can of compressed air (upside-down) and a normal claw hammer.

OK, so I just tested this, and on both locks I tried (Masterlock), the end result was them being cut off by bolt cutters. The pins inside are shattered, and the lock itself is frozen up, but it still hung on the latch. On one attempt, I even heated the lock beforehand with a blowtorch to make the contraction more pronounced.

IMO, this is the MacGyver effect; It's sound in theory (get a metal cold enough, fast enough, and it becomes brittle), but as portrayed in the show (using liquid compressed air), isn't possible. Not at all surprising, as they can't actually show you how to open up a padlock without leaving a mark.

Besides, if you can be somewhere with a hammer and not be questioned, you'll be able to use padlock shims (http://www.lockpickshop.com/SPS-20.html)1.

1This advice is meant for legal use only, such as if you lost your key or forgot your combination2.


2I've done both of these more than once.

[orchitect]

Compressed air is the best air you can get in a can.

Just don't take your computer to the gas station and use the air pump. That's BAD compressed air; its not even in a can!

[AstralFire]

That really made me laugh more than it should have, orchitect.

Thanks for testing that, Jack. I doubted it would work, but it's nice to know for sure.

[Crispy Dave]

Ok so i'm failing as a computer geek today becuase when I heard compressed air the first thing I though of was Paintball.

[BisectedBrioche]

Funny story; while I was still in college (in Britain that's the 2 years of school you go through before university and the first non-compulsary stage of education) I was in Maplin with my mother (I was heling her with the shopping) and mentioned I needed to get some canned air.

She though I was trying to sneak of on a snipe hunt.

[Nerocite]

I use an air compressor. Make my own canned air!