Grinder Cleaning Blower

#1: Post by **yakster** » February 13th, 2013, 8:02 pm

I recently picked up a Giottos Rocket-Air Blower for cleaning my grinders-bought one for the Vario at home and one for the hand-grinders at work. So far it seems to work very well, also it's supposed to be good for cleaning keyboards and camera lenses.

Anyone with a Giotto or Rocket machine may want this just for the namesake.

To kill the suspense, the prep work you see in the picture was for an afternoon shot of 50/50 Liquid Amber and Brazil Condado Peaberry that was quite good, despite near choking the La Peppina, pulled into my new yellow Inker Ischia demitasse.

February 13th, 2013, 10:00 pm

The large blower (the only one I've tried) produces good force, includes no bitterants, and uses a one-way valve to draw air from the base and propel it out the tip.

#3: Post by **Bob_McBob** » February 13th, 2013, 10:03 pm

Rocket blowers are handy for all sorts of tasks like this. I use mine for photography cleaning, blowing chaff out of my Lido, drying the lens on my coffee refractometer, and so on. As you say, they produce a good blast of air and contain no propellants or bitterants.

#4: Post by **jbviau** » February 13th, 2013, 10:04 pm

I'm totally going to pick one of these up and try blowing the LIDO's hopper out with it. Thanks! Great idea.

#5: Post by **Marshall_S** » February 13th, 2013, 10:50 pm

Good pickup on this blower.

I bought a couple several years ago to use on my photography equipment and discovered it works great for cleaning out the fan and other hard to reach places on my Quest roaster-

#6: Post by **LaDan** » February 13th, 2013, 11:59 pm

Hmm... You can buy something similar at your local pharmacy.

#7: Post by **iginfect** » February 14th, 2013, 9:15 am

LeDan said

You can buy something similar at your local pharmacy.

That was how I described it to my wife equivalent when I let her in on my new proposed addition to the kitchen.

Marvin

#8: Post by **jbviau** » February 14th, 2013, 10:49 am

Update: I'm in for one, arriving tomorrow via Amazon. The large size was actually the cheapest.

Many reviews by photography types gave the impression that the Rocket is in a different league than your average "CVS special" aspirator/bulb blower. We'll see. I have something like this at home that I didn't even bother to try because it doesn't generate much force at all.

#9: Post by **SJM** » February 14th, 2013, 11:59 am

Thanks for the reminder, Chris, I just ordered mine.
I ran it by my brother to see if he was familiar and he sez he already has two....
I will try blowing out the hopper on the Pharos when it gets here...

Susan

#10: Post by **LaDan** » February 14th, 2013, 2:38 pm

What I would really consider handy is a blower, similar to plumber sink drain thingy, (whatchmacallit?) That could fit on top of the adjusting collar. Push it down to forcefully blow air and blow the remaining grounds out into the doser, for an easy zero retention of single dosing.