The answer is blowing in the wind

Not a waste of time. Highly entertaining!

Mat, did you re-edit this between when we, the Patreon faithful, saw this and the public release? It seems a lot tighter .. and funnier this time.

As a kid I used to push the end of a compressor into the palm of my hand as hard as possible to see what pressure I could get it up to. I guess that wasn't a good idea then!

I dont know if someone has already mentioned it, but Ryobi do a blower thats cordless, runs on the same Ryobi one system - https://www.bunnings.com.au/ryobi-18v-one-workshop-blower-kit_p0111794

Using electonics cleaners can strip off the laquer, or sealent on PCBs. Even if they say they are plastic safe. I have found using distilled water, and a light detergent and removing any components that hold a lot of water (like relays) and rinsing with more distilled water can restore boards to like new. I also use a hair dryer on warm heat to thoroughly dry every part, and re-lubricate anything that needs it. Is there an alternative? The spray cleaners and even isopropyl seem to degrade the components leaving a white residue on everything. The dusters do clean dust, but with many old electonics used when smoking was common have tar gluing the dust down. While my method is certainly atypical, it works. I do have to wait another 3 days or so for everything to be completely dry before energizing, bit I haven't had any issues. I use distilled water because it doesn't leave deposits, and it practically non-conductive. (I still use the dryer and the 3 day waiting period after)

Lovely stuff. I look forward to your deciphering my washing instructions…

Oh this was great! Not really interested in dust blowers, but the sarcastic remarks were priceless! This was a really really good laugh. Thanks Mat! Loved this..

Love my little compucleaner - i got the more basic 'white' one and it's more than good enough for blowing the crud out of pcs, servers, rack switches etc. Built myself a little cabinet ( read: cardboard box with 2 holes in ) Place the box over the computer, blower in one hole, vacuum in the other, and voila, less dust in your lungs. They are great for scattering it everywhere, so a combination of little cordless vac ( I use the Worx as i have stuff and batteries anyway ) and the blower Great vid, enjoyed, mirrored my own opinions of compressors. Water is a big concern especially with electronics obvs

Some people have such a bee in their bonnet about Ryobi. They are totally fine for home users/diy stuff. Sure they probably won't stand up to every day use by a carpenter or something, but they aren't meant to. Ryobi are happy to let Makita/Dewalt/Milwaukee/Bosch fight over that market while they dominate the home user segment.

I had one of those handheld dusters at my last job. We'd use it to blow out the inside of computers that were located outside in the manufacturing area, as they'd get full of metal dust. They worked really well. I've thought of buying one for myself. Yeah, the air compressor is always a bad choice for dusting because you'd need a REALLY BIG tank to be useful. That being said, the little Ryobi unit looks pretty cool. I have a similar sized air compressor but it has nowhere to wrap the air hose around, and it require being plugged in. I can usually only air up one tire at a time, then I have to wait 60 seconds for it to compress some more air. And this is a real pain if the car is in the driveway because then I have to run an extension cord. So, that Ryobi compressor does look pretty slick. But I'm far too cheap to spend that kind of money on one, though!

Holy cow, I just noticed the nice 1M on your page. Congratulations! I have been hoping this would happen soon. You do great work Matt with nice attention to detail. Time to break out the beer frother thingy and celebrate a little!!

An interesting video - most certainly not a waste of time. A couple of products that could well meet any home taxidermy needs. I wondered whether the 'Designed to do More' slogan alluded to the pastime, and what 11 (or 9) car tyres would equate to. Four badgers? Six stoats?

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Funny thing is, I went thru the same process. Used to run a computer fixit business repairing and maintaining Mac computers. Bought a large compression with the tools and hoses, ended up using a small blower just like yours and sold the compressor.

Ahhh one of the funniest yet. Loved the unboxing and the DGAF attitude!

LOL - when you showed that nasty dust in the one Vectrex and DIDN'T clean it, I had a sneaking suspicion your comments were going to blow up. Great video as always Mat!

Can you get those little canned air dusters in the UK? That's what I use for the odd dusting job

Hi Matt. WOW Thats an expensive compressor considering its limitations.The tap at the bottom of the tank is a water drain. Also I very strongly advise a water separator on the outlet of the tank to the flexi pipe. When you compress air (esp in present hi humid air) you get a lot of water in the reservoir........you would be surprised. In the water will also be a very small amount of contaminents from the unit....eg oils, dusts and eventually rust! And if the unit is next to the components you are blowing clean......it will suck back in all the dust in the air LOL. A separator will give you pure clean dry air at the nozzle. Compressors can be a funny equation for the required job ! Its basically Pump CFM / Tank volume / nozzle CFM. For blowing dust off components, yours is more than enough..........firing off your wheel nuts another ball game LOL Let me know when your down and I will get you one. I have some pipe and guns here somewhere too you can have. Nice to see your cheerful character today !! On form Matt ! Adrian.

I have something very similar to your compu cleaner for a very different purpose. Blowing air out from trim, wheels etc in the car after washing. It's part of the whole detailing Vs cleaning debate. It does stop the drips and water marks on the car once you have washed and dried it. Exact same nozzle set, same price too! Great video Mat, thanks.

Mat, far out had been looking for a small compressor for a while to do some airbrush work this caught my eye for sure and might be worth a second look. Thanks mate, appreciate you having a look at something different

OMG. I will never look at warning labels the same way again. My daughter and I were in tears. "It explodes every now and then.". Another instant classic Mat. Thanks for the laugh.

In the middle of California quarantine, unboxing the Compu-cleaner absolutely made my day. Thank you.

Beware blowing non-dried air onto circuit boards.

Electric cleaner, brush and this, you’re cleaning electronics 👍🏻

I don't wish you stupid or angry comments, but after seeing this video, I hope you will keep reacting to some of them also in the future. The little angriness and your sarcasm made my day. "Ryobi killed my ... rust on the Titanic... The dust will be gone and we can all breath a sigh of relief..." The unboxing part is one of the best I have seen. LOL However, I hope this comment won't make it to a new video. ;-)

Great video again Mat ! Just bought a Compucleaner as a result, using your link of course. Another comment on compressors is if you've got one on commercial premises then there are insurance and inspection implications .

Despite being unspeakably tired when I watched this, it still made me laugh out loud (or 'LOL' as the yoot would say). I enjoyed that little edge of sauce (that I detected) aimed at the hoards of 'I know best' bell-ends across the internet. The compressor was way more expensive and way less suited to the job than the cheaper product. Bravo!

Hmm. The Ryobi air compressor might be passable for use with air brushes, if it wasn't so damn loud.

I do love your energy in this video, absolutely fantastic! Borderline grumpy old man, wonderful! "I'm the bloody Pope I am and I know what I like!" Keep it UP! (Be ware of blowing highly compressed air at you skin, blood and air don't mix well)

Useful video. Just what I need to clean my filthy disgusting circuit boards. Nice one

Unboxing at 5:50. Ha ha ha! Rolling on the floor! Sooo funny! :-D

This was well-timed, as only a few weeks ago (believe it or not) I was also considering an air compressor/dust blower. This was one of your funnier videos, too.

This was a fun video, I appreciate your humor throughout. Also I bought one of those style of electronic air guns about 10-years ago - doesn't look quite as powerful as the one you have, but very close. I've used it a ton over the year, easily got back the $50 or so I paid for it at the time (compared to buying compressed air cans).

Great video, Mat. Another product for which I have no use nor interest, but you make it thoroughly enjoyable to watch.

"Vectrii"? Wouldn't "Vectrices" be more correct? ;) Be that as it may, this is a really interesting video. At the moment my only dusting options are a large air compressor and one of those little hand-pumped compressed air drain unblocking thingies that I bought from Aldi a while back. I suspect neither of those would be YouTube Commenter Approved.

Best unboxing ever. I do it like that pretty much rip the product out. Air comps are great for short burts of high-pressure air to remove stubborn dust. (I don't own one for the same reasons as yourself) I have a homebrew dust sucker made from two old robovac fans and brush the dust off using a natural hog bristle brush which is collectd by the nearby robovac contraption. And I use a can of ”air" (R134 to be precise) for the high pressure stuff. For occasional use, ”canned air" is fine, pricey but convenient. The little vac thing is great, I'll def be ordering one of those, useful for heaps of stuff!

Lately I've been pondering the sane questions as for blowing out my old typewriters. Should I get a compressor or some kind of blower? I've been using canned air which doesn't last long, one can is barely enough for one machine, usually not. I douse the thing with chemicals, around the basket and such, and need a fair bit of air to blow it all away. Its like my biggest hangup right now in the typewriter rebuilding thing. Before coronavirus, I would take the things to the factory where I worked and use the compressed air there. I have three typewriters waiting for their cleanings and I cant do a thing without compressed air so good on you Matt, you've saved my typewriter repair aspirations (pun of sorts) and I'm getting the humorously designed little blower thing.

I loved the unboxing video. This was one of your funniest intros. I can’t wait to see the deluge of YouTube comments about why a very large air compressor is the only appropriate solution to any conceivable problem....

On a more serious note, thank you for making this video. I was actually going out to buy an air compressor this weekend solely for the task of cleaning PCs and other electronics as I am sick of having to buy cans of compressed air - especially since they suddenly had a price hike from around $2 AUD to almost $20 a can. Apparently this was done to curb mouth-breathers from huffing them and getting (further) brain damage. Anyhoo, I won't bother with an air compressor and look at an alternative solution like the Compu Cleaner electric blower. Thanks, TM!

I see from the Compu Cleaner Xpert section that Techmoan subscribes to the school of AvE unboxing. "TIME!"

Very different kind of products and quite differnt Techmoan as well, higher phase, more "energy" it seems. I all honesty I prefer a slower phase, but very well done. Thanks

Blowing dust around ain't such a goodie, what you're breathing has gotta be BAD, besides you're jamming dust into micro slots, cracks, crevices, and spots you can't see, better to use a micro vac with a 1/4" fuzzy nozzle or wider for spots, and a 1/8 inch straw. Funny as hell vid thanks.

I got confused at the beginning when you talked about having to buy a battery for the Ryobi. But once you set it up, I understood - this is specifically for people that are already a part of the Ryobi ecosystem who have dozens of the right battery already. For *them* (and maybe only them) this is a great accessory. But your part about not needing it because of the amount of air moved by the Compu-Cleaner is probably right. It seemed to way over-perform what it looked like it was going to.

Nothing like a right snippy Moan vid to brighten the mood! :-) thanks Mat!

As others have commented I'm absolutely thrilled that you're on the verge of 1 million YouTube subs! Could not be more well deserved!

It is good people obsess about dust, so you can make a nice contemporary short movie about it 😉.

I have come across all means of removing dust when working with electronics. The cheep device looks good enough in my books. I had an engineer guy who used to drag TV sets out into the street and blast them with a huge centrifugal blower with a nozzle attachment. He as not very popular with the neighbouring shops.

Matt! Are you OK? Was this filmed after way too many cups of coffee? Loved the first unboxing. 😂

I like your latest video as always.

Worth a watch if only for your explanation of the warning stickers!

Glad you've reached the same conclusion about the CompuCleaner as I have. A friend of mine got one a few years ago and lent it to me, worked wonders for cleaning up a stack of old Commodores. Needless to say I got one of my own shortly afterwards.

Oh wow, perfect timing for this video! I'm in the market for such a dust-removal solution right now. I've got a beefy 12v air compressor for tires, and was thinking of pairing it with a passive air-tank and blower nozzle... now not so much! I thought those "Compu-Cleaner" things were a bit of a bad joke, based on experience with what fan-based dusters could do (spoiler: nothing). But that one you got is quite surprising! (Wish you had an affiliate link for Amazon US, but considering I'm abstaining from Amazon and doing small-business shopping on eBay lately, it's OK anyway :) )

That video blew me away. Another great one, thank you.

Brush with small vac nozzle. Brush loosens dust At the same time the vacuum sucks it up No need to exit the building 😆 Air compressors spray water as the tanks condensate Thanks great video, hilarious👍

I think for the 1m subscribers you should do a retrospective and be interviewed by The Moans, Matt. Regarding this video, wow, that little compressor really is guff isn’t it? What use does it realistic have one wonders?! I’m sure I saw a petrol compressor in LIDL for about £99. Still utter overkill for dusty PCBs. The gun seems much better.

Neither of these products sucked. 😳 There are ESD-safe hoovers for computers too. Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/Metro-Vacuum-DV3ESD1-DataVac-Anti-Static/dp/B000RMQJBK A few different brands of those for a part 2? 🙂 Would be nice to see how they compare to a blower. Which is more effective at removing dust?

It's not the tech that makes this video cool, it's the dry British humour 🤣

"You want an unboxing video, here's how you do it!" *unceremoniously dumps contents out* Actually this new "Angry Mat" style video is kinda cool! Some of those folks who were so upset with the dust should watch Shango066 resurrect an old TV full of mouse nests that he purposely leaves in the chassis. Also, I've been using air compressors since I was a kid, but it wasn't until today that I learned the proper way to adjust the line pressure.

My engineering apprentice instructor is screaming at me from 1975, “Don’t point high pressure air at your skin, you could drive contaminating particles into your skin or even cause an embolism” end of Health and Safety rant. :)

Excellent, Mat! I've had a Compu Cleaner for about a year now and have been very pleased with it - far more economical than the cans of compressed gas one can buy. I am constantly amazed at your skill in making these rather mundane things seem so interesting; but as you say above, it has taken 11 years of working hard at it to make something most of us would find quite hard look easy. Have a good weekend.

I have a small compressor for airbrush painting. I never thought about using it for blowing off dust. I imagine if you get the orifice small enough it would work ok. But I do like that other blower. It’s been my experience that some dust is baked on, so the brush would be handy. Love your unboxing.

This video was great and really funny. Also, for some reason it fascinated my cat (perhaps the noises!).

Really looking forward to this. My computers are getting too heavy to carry downstairs to the garage for the compressor. I was looking at one of the blowers. Now I get to see how it performs!

You fully deserve 1 million subs, I often watch your old videos and there is such a range. My favourite is format war 45vslp.

I use my old Hoover Vacuum cleaner in blow mode. Works very well.

I fully support your verdict for the compressor. Over the years I bout several compressors and I also found these small ones, despite their size being very appealing first, pretty useless. The small tank makes them refill every few seconds, they don't have anough "power" to use nail guns with them and spray painting is completely impossible as they don't manage to keep the pressure constant. But at least this manufacture clearly says that on the box while most others don't and sometimes even bundle their compressors with a spray gun. I also had two cheap compressors having the metal pipes burst after a few years. Not as bad that they exploded and fly around, more like starting to leak after a while and and some point releasing all air before it even reaches the tool. In the end I bought a bigger compressor from Schneider Airsystems that works just fine for what I do with it. But that one is big, loud and expensive. It just seems like that there is no way to avoid those downsides if you want a compressor that just works. And to just dust off things that compu cleaner seems to be the way to go.

No video you make is a waste of time, in fact they are quite the opposite.

Ryobi killed my parents. lol It's like the madness that ensues whenever you mention electric cars. It's like you just told a steroid infused alpha male that he had to give up meat!

1 millions subs in no time 😎

Why not use a airbrush one

The only issue you should worry about with air compressors like these, is if they are graded for electronic repair not. Most generic and cheaper compressors doesn't have a proper filter and seal to prevent tiny drops of oil to leak into the air chamber. We had several at my rental company, and it wasn't until we got the ones costing around $300 or above that we got it right. Granted you have to blow a lot of air for it to leave a residue, but if you wanna be 100% sure, get stuff like this one from Metabo: https://no.farnell.com/metabo/basic-250-24-w-of/compressor-basic-1-5kw-8bar/dp/2422586?st=air%20compressor

I want to congratulate you in advance with the big 1 million subscriber milestone. Seems like you are hitting it in the coming week!

Brilliant Freudian slip in the first sentence Matt 😉