Robert Green wrote:
"Bob F" wrote in message
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I have an outside air hose by the back steps. A quick "scan" with
the blaster nozzle gets all the crud out of the tread of my shoes
before I go inside after gardening. I probably use more air on that
than anything else. The 10 foot copper pipe, adjustable end nozzle
gutter cleaner runs a close second.

What great ideas. I was looking for an excuse to buy an
auto-retracting air hose to mount below the porch and now I have it.
Tell me more about the air powered gutter cleaning wand. Home brew
or COTS?

Home brew. Air fitting and ball valve on one end of a 1/2" copper pipe. On the
other end, a female thread fitting. Into that I screwed two threaded PVC street
ells and a nozzle I made by heating a few inches of copper tube and clamping it
around a nail, then pulling the nail out. The 2 street ells allow the nozzle to
be pointed any way I want, and can form a "hook" that helps guide it along the
gutter edge.