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tangram wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:56 am

I have a Hurricane Dryer and I love it. I have read every conceivable argument against these devices. I find those arguments uninformed at best and bullfeathers at worst. So not interested in debating its value

That's great. But I'm still not understanding its purpose.
Does it just dry your CPAP equipment?

tangram wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:56 am

I have a Hurricane Dryer and I love it. I have read every conceivable argument against these devices. I find those arguments uninformed at best and bullfeathers at worst. So not interested in debating its value.

Says the guy who felt the need to wash his hose everyday, then immediately contaminate it by blowdrying it with a hair-dryer

tangram wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2013 5:53 am

I wash my hose and gear every day. ...

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So my solution is to dry the hose and short tube with a hair dryer adapter, as in the picture seen at the link below.

And then tried to hide his moronic statements by going back and removing them.

And if you would make an effort to actually read the posts, you would see that nobody is actually complaining about the Hurricane dryer. The position is; they are not necessary.

ups4 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:30 pm

Does it just dry your CPAP equipment?

Yep..that's all it does and that's all it says it does. Your mask or hose...dries faster than air drying out in the room air.
It doesn't say it cleans anything or kills germs or sanitizes...it's a clothes dryer for your cpap mask and hose.

Some people want to wash everything every day or at whatever schedule they want to do...and sometimes the equipment won't doesn't dry enough to suit them by bedtime for any number of reasons and it's annoying to them.
Yeah, there are other ways maybe or maybe not needed but it's a personal choice and if they want to get rid of whatever is annoying them and can do it with the dryer thing and don't mind paying for it. It's another gadget people can use, that to them, that makes their life less annoying.

Their choice, their life, their money, their choice to wash or not wash their stuff, and as far as I can think of....it doesn't hurt anything. Anymore than running your clothes dryer to dry your clothes hurts you.
Not my job to dictate how someone wants to spend their money or how often or why they want to clean their cpap equipment or not clean their equipment. It doesn't really matter what my personal preference is...the only opinion that really matters is the person who is using the equipment and cleaning it or not cleaning it or whatever.

Now the ozone cleaners...that's a potential health hazard and that's a totally different discussion but we weren't discussing ozone cleaners here...we are talking about a clothes dryer for our cpap mask or hose.
I don't really care if someone wants to use a clothes dryer for their clothes or hang them outside on the clothes line and let mother nature do it. Not my job to tout the advantages or disadvantages or even need for fresh air drying.

I did remove earlier posts about using a hair dryer, because that didn't work out. Among other things, the volatile compounds from the materials we used were too difficult to get rid of. So I use a Hurricane dryer now.

tangram wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:30 pm

I did remove earlier posts about using a hair dryer, because that didn't work out. Among other things, the volatile compounds from the materials we used were too difficult to get rid of. So I use a Hurricane dryer now.

Stop using Sulfuric Acid as hose wash. Jim

Washed that stuff every night for the first several weeks.
Right before bedtime, so the water in the hose would mix with the humidity.
No need to dry something that just gets wet again.
Of course, I learned that excessive cleaning WEARS STUFF OUT.
So I got over that nonsense.

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:09 pm

Washed that stuff every night for the first several weeks.
Right before bedtime, so the water in the hose would mix with the humidity.
No need to dry something that just gets wet again.
Of course, I learned that excessive cleaning WEARS STUFF OUT.
So I got over that nonsense.

Imagine all your own germs you killed, and they had to start breeding all over again to protect you, that's cruel. I'm glad you stopped. Jim