Jim Elbrecht wrote:
"Bob F" wrote:

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.


Thanks for the inspiration. That sounds a lot less wieldy than the
cob job of leaf-blower, vac hose, and 2" PVC that I use to get up to
my 20foot high gutters.

And it might even work a tad better on my maple & oak droppings.

A 20 foot length of 1/2" copper will be unwieldly with high air pressure. Even
the 10 foot one I have can get out of control when the air flow is on if I'm not
careful. The copper can flex quite a bit.