Suppressed Air Compressor
Yesterday, I brought my suppressor to work. Our engineering guys have a pretty high end air compressor and I use it to clean the sound suppressor. Any way, the air compressor is loud but when you blast air through the suppressor, it is not. I just thought that was neat. I mean, I guess I knew it should work since compressed air is a gas and all a suppressor does is slow down the gas as it exits. Still, it was pretty cool. And, of course, the exiting air wasn’t nearly as powerful as a direct blast.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:35 am
This opens up a world of possibilities. I’m thinking Sunday morning in church after a saturday night of my Extra bean and Habanero chili. 🙂
October 21st, 2009 at 9:49 am
Would you still need a tax stamp for that particular application of a suppressor? I think so.
In 20 years of reading about guns,this is the first time I have ever heard about a suppressor being cleaned with compressed air. So your “obvious” discovery of how it works is at least, as the saying goes, new to me.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:04 am
They actually make sound suppressors for air lines. My senior engineering design project used one to reduce the hearing protection requirement for some equipment.