John Morgan wrote:
You may be on the right track, but alcohol will evaporate too quickly to be
of much help I think. Instead, give it a short squirt of WD-40. The small
amount used could not migrate all the way to the instruments in flight, but
I would still try to blow it out beforehand.

Your're probably right on the evaporation, I will bring some WD40 along.
In any case the tubing will be disconnected on the panel end. I am
going to blow both before and after.


Along with my previous suggestion re string trimmer line, you can try
bending the end of the nylon line enough so that it may catch and "spring
into" the 90 degree ports in the fitting. Couldn't hurt to try. Also a probe
fashioned from a length of soft aluminum wire (if you have such) may be
useful.

Down at the barn, I've learned to aim all air guns and air chucks away from
me before hitting the trigger. Getting shot with high velocity earwig body
parts is the consequence doing otherwise.

Thanks for your ideas. In all of this I expect I may have to try
multiple things and times before either succeeding or giving up. I
think that insects are going to be the ones to eventually inheret the
earth !

Am now leaving to do battle, and hopefully fly as well.

Jack