I'll tell you what I want

Uncle Krunkus

I want something for cleaning 6.5mm sockets.
The way I imagine it, it would have a metal pin (50*2mm) onto which goes a hard yet absorbent fibrous sleeve which has the same profile as a 6.5mm plug.
Then you soak it with isopropyl alchohol and use it to give every 6.5mm socket in sight a good rogering! Twisted Evil

Does anyone know if something like this exists?

I might end up making something myself.

It could also be a very dense brush I suppose.

Kassen · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:38 am Post subject:

I hear good things about cleaning sockets with brushes meant to clean the barrels of guns. Not sure about the legality of guns (and hence the easy availability of these brushes) where you are. Never got to try it myself but the idea makes a lot of sense to me.

Oenyaw · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:36 am Post subject:

Yeah, if there was a Wal-Mart around, you could just go to the gun department and get a gun cleaning kit. I use it for my shotgun.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=6339954
Try getting it on line.

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Antimon · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:38 am Post subject:

My first thought reading this was pipe cleaners. They're a bit small perhaps, but maybe you can fold them a couple of times? Wrap them in a piece of sheet or napkin?

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/Stefan

Kassen · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:50 am Post subject:

Inventor · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:57 am Post subject:

I smoke Marlboro mediums (I know, quit NOW). I measured the filter and it's 8 mm diameter uncompressed. Then I carefully peeled the paper off of half of it and made me a nice fibrous absorbent 6.5 mm socket cleaner. The other half with the paper still on it is your handle. Worth a try perhaps?

Inventor · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:14 am Post subject:

Oh, and I've also had good luck taking a paper towel corner and twisting it up into a narrowly tapered cone. You insert the skinny tip first and push it in while twisting until it gets tight.

Or a Q-tip for cleaning your ears. For some reason I seem to get flux in my ears all the time, don't know why. Maybe I'm a robot and I don't know it yet. Domo aregato Mr. Roboto!

Kassen · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:04 am Post subject:

He he he, this "inventing" business is all about fee association, right?

BTW, some people claim that if you have a lot of "flux" (is that really the word?) it can also mean your ears are annoyed about the Q-tips and the Q-tips will push some of it deeper into the ear-channel. They claim you're better off carefully putting warm water in your ear under the shower which will warm&soften the flux and get it out with the water without pushing it deeper in.

Blue Hell · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:33 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:55 am Post subject:

Inventor · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:59 am Post subject:

destroyifyer · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:25 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus wrote:

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Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:18 am Post subject: