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tooki:
There’s a reason some recipes specify using ice water. ;)
Cerebus:
At the moment I'm more minded to be following the medieval recipe for meringue that I once encountered "Beat the egg whites until you have exhausted three servants". In this case the bit I'm minded to be following is the "having servants" bit. [Flops onto sofa.]
langwadt:

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--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 23, 2021, 10:45:42 pm ---Don't know if it's already on here, but turning a can of compressed air upside down turns it into a handy freeze spray for detecting faulty components.
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REALLY? That could be exceptionally useful....

Escaping (really, expanding) gas drops in temperature, of course, but I didn't know that inverting the can would make a difference. Must try that immediately!

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when you invert it it spray liquid instead of gas, so it evaporates on the part instead of in the can

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I've done this with 'air duster' cans marketed for cleaning computers.  People were using them to get high so they added a noxious scent to it.  That scent lasts a long time, transfers from surface to surface and tastes bad.

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the nonflammable kinds used to be (and some still is I think) R134A, the refrigerant they are facing out because it is 1500 times worse than CO2

Berni:
Here is another trick i use freeze spray for: Recharging cans that ran out of air only.

We use various canned stuff stuff like PCB Cleaner or WD40, but we all know when the you run out of air so the can won't spray but you can clearly hear the liquid still inside. What i do is stick the straw of the freeze spray into the other can (Sometimes it just fits, something it needs to be held against it) then press down on the freeze spray, then the empty can. This starts transferring the freeze spray over into the empty can, all you need is to hold it for a few seconds. Now that can of WD40 sprays like new again.

I tried this before with an air compressor, and it does work too, but since the air can't be liquefied in there means that you get a lot less gas volume to fit so the air runs out again fairly quick.


--- Quote from: langwadt on December 31, 2021, 02:07:39 am ---
--- Quote from: Kasper on December 24, 2021, 12:01:47 am ---
--- Quote from: langwadt on December 23, 2021, 11:42:01 pm ---when you invert it it spray liquid instead of gas, so it evaporates on the part instead of in the can

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I've done this with 'air duster' cans marketed for cleaning computers.  People were using them to get high so they added a noxious scent to it.  That scent lasts a long time, transfers from surface to surface and tastes bad.

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the nonflammable kinds used to be (and some still is I think) R134A, the refrigerant they are facing out because it is 1500 times worse than CO2

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Yeah the KontaktChemie freeze spray had quietly changed at one point. Branding it as a new improved formula when in actuality they just got banned from using the older refrigerant gas. The advertised cooling temperature also changed slightly, you can use that to find what refrigerant boils at that point at sea level.
coppercone2:
careful with freeze spray I broke precision op amps before with condensation. You need a dry environment don't do it when its humid.
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