Cockpit vacuum cleaner
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Cockpit vacuum cleaner
I hope tech log is the best place to get my answer, if not I apologize in advance.
Is there a light weight very small vacuum cleaner on the market that would fit in a flight bag so every time I am flying over the pond I can clean that messy dusty cockpit panels without damaging anything? AC or DC operated.
Thank you
Is there a light weight very small vacuum cleaner on the market that would fit in a flight bag so every time I am flying over the pond I can clean that messy dusty cockpit panels without damaging anything? AC or DC operated.
Thank you
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From: Austria
Wow - someone who likes a clean cockpit, is borred on long flights and finds something usefull to widdle his time! Something new everyday... 
I for one just carry a small brush in my bag - and borrow the vacuum cleaner on the turn-arounds... that is - if you have any
Mind it - just be carefull - powerfull vacuum cleaners have a tendency to sometimes clean buttons as well 
Oh - and if you are on my side of the pond and have a spare moment - my room would need some vacuuming too!
(I have a tendency to clean up the workplace, but mess up my home) 
Oh - found a link for you - maybe one of those?
http://householdappliances.kelkoo.co...price=&x=0&y=0
I for one just carry a small brush in my bag - and borrow the vacuum cleaner on the turn-arounds... that is - if you have any
Mind it - just be carefull - powerfull vacuum cleaners have a tendency to sometimes clean buttons as well Oh - and if you are on my side of the pond and have a spare moment - my room would need some vacuuming too!
(I have a tendency to clean up the workplace, but mess up my home) Oh - found a link for you - maybe one of those?
http://householdappliances.kelkoo.co...price=&x=0&y=0
Last edited by Eliason; 12th February 2006 at 16:26.
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From: flyover country USA
Gee, with upwards of 8 or 9 psi differential to the Great Vacuum in the Sky, you'd think Boe-bus would have provided a neat little vacuum nozzle, giving the means to do it sans batteries. 
Call it the FCES (Flight Crew Entertainment System) if you like, but remember you heard it here first...
Call it the FCES (Flight Crew Entertainment System) if you like, but remember you heard it here first...
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From: Canberra Australia
As a onetime CO of a C-130 squadron and insistent on clean flight decks and no beverages ever to be passed over consoles I had some hoses made up having an end fitting which plugged into the astro compass receptacle.
Pressurisation to atmosphere made a very poweful vaccuum cleaner. Pity it's not a standard fit. Right seaters even took to doing the cleaning at home!!
Loadies and engineers all wanted their turns!!
But never ever try to throw a paper bag of prawn remains out of the para door. Most come back inside, swirl around and stink for weeks.
Pressurisation to atmosphere made a very poweful vaccuum cleaner. Pity it's not a standard fit. Right seaters even took to doing the cleaning at home!!
Loadies and engineers all wanted their turns!!
But never ever try to throw a paper bag of prawn remains out of the para door. Most come back inside, swirl around and stink for weeks.
