A new tool

[Steve Jelf]

I'm sure this is old hat to many, but I learned about it just a few years ago when I used a friend's, and bought this one Friday. Actually I bought one at HF last week but returned it. This one costs more, but it works.

Hook it up to the air supply, drop the hose into a can of solvent, and spray away grease and dirt. Very handy.

[jiminbartow]

Could you spray a thin paint wash with it? Where’d ya get it? Jim Patrick

[NoelChico]

I remember a similar tool used by my father on the farm that had a quart reservoir (like an oil can) and was hooked up to an air hose . We uses diesel fuel or kerosene as a solvent.

[Steve Jelf]

Could you spray a thin paint wash with it? Where’d ya get it?

I suppose you could, but I expect it would have to be so thin that it would run and drip.
I got this one at the Big Tool Store in Derby. The name is Turbo Blo-Gun Engine Cleaner, the make is Milton, and the model is S-184-CS.There are several others available, but many of them use a button instead of a trigger. Holding that button in gets old real quick.

[Allan]

I use an old time Kero gun. It has a screw-on 1 1/2 pint pot but when I have a longer job, I just fit a hose to the pick-up and drop the other end directly into the solvent drum.

Allan from down under.

[jiminbartow]

It may be the lighting but is it brass? All the ones I find online are not brass and the model number is S-184. there is no CS at the end of the model number. Jim Patrick

[jiminbartow]

I just ordered one on Amazon for $30.00. Jim Patrick

[Steve Jelf]

That's the same one, Jim. Not brass.

[jiminbartow]

Thank you, Steve. I look forward to receiving it and trying it out. Jim Patrick.

[tiredfarmer]

Steve I have used one for years. It's real handy for washing out the front hubs of grease.

[Bud Delong]

Steve, it looks very handy as a pre wash!! I think i will also get one but where is it made?? Bud.

[Herb Iffrig]

They are used on the farm to spray oil on roller chains for lubrication. We use one to oil the chains on our combine.

[mtntee20]

Using one of these many years ago, I found that I had to reduce the air pressure from the compressor to get mine to work properly. So, if anyone is having problems with proper operation of this sprayer, try reducing the air pressure supply to the sprayer. I still have mine but have had to replace the pick-up tubing as it got to be hard as a rock.

Good Luck,
Terry

[Emeraude]

Jimibartow, what is the brand name or part number for amazon. I would like to order one but could not make out the part number or brand on your photo

[halftracknut]

I bought almost same thing at tractor supply...it was a sand blast gun...but I use it to paint wood fence you adjust air pressure to adjust amount of paint that comes out and in 1 hour I spray more fence than 100 men with a brushes...

[Steve Jelf]

I think i will also get one but where is it made??

Taiwan.

...what is the brand name or part number for amazon. I would like to order one but could not make out the part number or brand on your photo

See my post above at 9:44 PM.

[jiminbartow]

George. Milton #S-184, “Turbo Blo-Gun Engine Cleaner”. Jim Patrick

[DHort]

According to Herb, do I need to buy a combine to use it?

[perry kete]

We used one of those on the farm for years. We would clean the equipment being put away in winter storage and then use that gun with the hose stuck into a bucket of used motor oil to spray equipment heads to prevent rust. It works as a protectant on the sickle bar mower blades, combine heads, underside of brush hogs etc. One time I thinned roof tar with gasoline and used it to undercoat my pick up truck by spraying it with that gun. The roof tar worked great as a rust stopper.

[OilyBill]

I have a couple of these, up to 4 feet long, for cleaning up radial aircraft engines. (Which are ALWAYS oily) They work very nicely. And when you pull them out of the solvent, they make a nice blowgun to blow away any solvent or other liquid remaining.

[Luke]

I have a couple of these, up to 4 feet long, for cleaning up radial aircraft engines. (Which are ALWAYS oily)

Oily radials? Never!

As you'll see below, despite drip trays we had to utilise various methods to reduce the oil flow via motor to the hangar floor from our twin wasps, one of these wash guns would have been a good thing... :

[BLB27]

Would this work to spray paint remover on a body/fenders etc.?

[Steve Jelf]

Would this work to spray paint remover on a body/fenders etc.?

Probably depends on how thick the stuff is. If you try it, wear gloves and stay upwind of it.

[halftracknut]

Let tell you ...don't spray that stuff it will burn your skin...stripper needs to brush on thick to work good....I have used a garden sprayer...but no more...we used aircraft stripper with an accelerator and one pinpoint on your skin will set you on fire....the stuff is just wicked....

[Duey_C]

What is a combine? A combination of the reaper, binder and the thresher.
So yes Dave, you do need a combine Or ANYTHING else you'd dare classify as a combination of things.
Ooh yeah, a sand blaster gun would work fine too. A buck says the hose won't like the juice.
Bill makes a neat point too! When ya pull the suction tube out of the liquid cleaner it allows EVEN MORE air to travel thru the nozzle along with the air from the compressor. It pulls atmospheric air thru the tube.
We needed to get some water out of a "tank" one time at work (too much to sop up with rags and difficult to roll over) and didn't have one of these guns in the shop so I cut off a foot long piece of 5/8 hose, slit it on the bottom, grabbed a piece of 3/8 hose, pried open the slit, stuffed the 3/8 hose in, got the air blower gun hooked to the air line, put the 5/8 hose menagerie on the blower and we had a water suction machine. Spit water all over the floor.
Tank sucked near dry. Cool.
The guys stood there with dropped jaws.
Neat thread!

[Allan]

Duane, that thing you are talking about is a header. A combine is a machine which tills the soil, sows seed, applies fertiliser and covers the seedbed, combining all operations in one pass. If only we all spoke the same language!

Perhaps we should call them harvesters and seeders. That would make them hard to confuse.

Allan from down under.

[Dallas Landers]

C'mon guys. Tilling, planting, reaping threshing? Thats called a farmer.

[OilyBill]

Luke, that's a beautiful machine! DC-2 or DC-3?
You are right! Radial aircraft engines don't leak at ALL.
If they are out of oil, of course!

[jiminbartow]

After only a couple of days, I received my Blo-Gun from Amazon, yesterday. A very well made tool that I anticipate should prove useful in cleaning parts. Thanks Steve and thanks to everyone here who offered advice on the many uses for this tool. Jim Patrick

[Luke]

Luke, that's a beautiful machine! DC-2 or DC-3?
You are right! Radial aircraft engines don't leak at ALL.
If they are out of oil, of course!

C-47, so you were pretty much on the money, and yes they're both beautiful

Like many of them if she'd been sitting for a while we had to remove the lower plugs and drain the oil out of the cylinders before even thinking about turning her over. Even if she'd been run the day before I very gingerly turned the props over by hand, looking for the slightest sign of resistance...

... but of course most of it ended up on the floor, as you see in the photo. And they were almost new motors straight from P&W! Naturally after that I've never really worried about the odd drop from the Ford.

[Bud Delong]

There is no binder in a combine!!! Bud.