How I cleared water from pipes to allow soldering

[mrcheerful]

I wasn't try to claim I invented it, just made a home version that works really well at zero cost. My neighbour saw it and thought I was a genius, well it made me feel good anyway.

mrcheerful

[The Medway Handyman]

Sorry mate, wasn't trying to put you down, just saying you had an idea that took the vacum cleaner industry years to invent.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King saying something like:

Nostrils are up the wrong way; best grip them by the ears pre-whirl.

[Guy King]

The message from Grimly Curmudgeon contains these words:

Humans really are a lousy bit of "design". If I were a creator I'd be ashamed to put my hand up to it!

[Lobster]

Who was it that said: "When God created Man, she was only practising?"

David

[manatbandq]

Bollocks, it does.

It's your loss.

[John Stumbles]

We used to have an attachment for our ancient[1] electrolux cylinder vac for spraying paint and other watery fluids with the hose attached to the blow end of the machine. The attachment was like a glass kilner jar with a telescopic dip tube and a nozzle. There must have been a seal missing from the telescopic bit of the dip tube or summat as it never worked.

[1] I mean it'd be ancient now: it must have been 40+ years ago. Mind, it wasn't that new at the time.

[bof]

I remember having one of those with the glass spray jar, one of the useful features of the cleaner was having a blow mode by attaching the pipe at the exhaust end. We're thinking about investing in a new vacuum cleaner ATM, do any contemporary ones do that, anyone?

[Chris Bacon]

You had to stick your finger over a hole to get it to spray.

I've got one of those! Also the "floor polisher".

It was very good for clearing pipe blockages, too, and blowing up air-beds and paddling pools.

Some of the Numatic tub vacuum cleaners do that, + there is a big range of tools/accessories, e.g. "Airo" brush. The "Quiet" NVQ200-22 blows, I think. See

under "Cleancare".

[Colin Stamp]

[snip]

I've got one of these for the workshop:-

'm very impressed for the price. Happily sucks up just about anything you point it at, as well as blowing.

Cheers,

Colin.

[anon]

Good idea mate - If there's a much smaller quantity of water shove a chunk of bread up the pipe - provided you can flush it out afterwards of course.

[bof]

In message , Colin Stamp writes

Ta, does look very good for the price, SWMBO is managing the purchase, so I suspect we'll end up with something rather more expensive and rather less industrial looking, maybe I'll just get one of those for the diy clearups then I can't get told off for spoiling the vacuum cleaner with building debris