Roche has an easy cleaning

What is the best way to clean the chalk and dirt, dust and Gack keeps at bay?

Ben punishment

The usual technique is to rub with a brush and water. But it requires effort and an intimate connection with handles, a strenuous effort possible, depending on the height of the rock or slope of the road.

You have come to the right place, because I have countless furtive / tender friends who have mastered all the dark arts. Dr. J., column Medicine Australia to write in this magazine, is one of them. It turns out that not only bent fingers and elbows can mend, knows the dirty work for the establishment of routes including maintenance cleaning.

To remove the used keeps offending particulate matter, Doc a fire pump. Not the chemical type, but the type of filling with water and pressurized with a floor bicycle pump style.

With the specific characteristics of Dr. J in the eye, I broke my Amazon Prime and asked Amerex 240 ($ 105). This beauty of stainless steel has 2.5 liters of water, and when it is pumped to 100 psi (manufacturer's recommendation to extinguish a fire), is discharged for 55 seconds. Mino overload of up to 180 psi, it is to make a serious power disc.

I use the Amerex for two years and still baffles its effectiveness. The Amerex can an outlet, and accuracy of 30 feet away influence, radiation chalk, dirt and dust into oblivion, and without damaging the stone. Preparing for a new road or block or ridge cleaning extinguishers shavings.

The downside of course is that the Amerex without water is not good. Empty extinguishers weighs seven pounds. Filled with water, the balance is tilted to 27 pounds. Weak think that's difficult. Get stronger, wimp! For the transport, charge the device in a top-loading crag pack of medium size. Rocks, pulling a shawl by the mounting bracket and deliver mail Amerex behind you. Continue!

This article appeared in the rock and ice # 239 (January 2017).

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