Dust-Off
Ten ounce cans
Compressed Gas Duster, 10 oz
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A single standard can that sits by the workbench or rests in a desk drawer until keys stick or a tower fan gathers gray lint.
By the gear
Craft and hobby benches
Sewing machines, model benches, printers, blinds, shelves of figures and the dust that settles on all of it.
Lint where the thread runs
A bobbin case and a feed dog collect felted lint faster than anything else on a sewing machine. Short bursts with the straw clear the race without a screwdriver coming out.
Detail without touching
Painted figures, model kits and anything with a fragile join are the exact case for moving dust with a stream rather than fingers. Work from further off than you would on a keyboard.
Blinds, vents and shades
Slatted blinds, lamp shades and return vents hold a surprising amount and resist every cloth ever made. This is the household job people buy a second can for.
Sewing and quilting benches
Lint under the throat plate builds into a mat that changes the stitch before it ever becomes visible. A pass with the straw every few projects keeps it from getting that far.
Keep the stream off the oiled parts of the machine and off any exposed thread path you have just set. Blowing a threaded machine is a good way to spend ten minutes re-threading it.
Printers and paper dust
Paper sheds, and the dust it sheds is fine and gets everywhere: rollers, sensor windows, the tray. A short pass through an open paper path clears the sensors that cause the mystery jams.
Go gently near a laser printer's toner area. Loose toner is not something to blow around a room, and that part of the machine is better handled with a cloth and a vacuum meant for it.