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How to clean a space heater air intake?

I have a Honeywell 360 Surround Heat space heater that has been in storage for the past year. I need to use it, but there is dust, hair, and lint stuck in the air intake at the bottom of the tower. I‘ve tried using a blowdryer to no avail. The instruction manual says you only need to clean the outside and that the heater doesn‘t disassemble, so I have no idea how to get the crap out of it! Somebody please help

Answer:

Try using a shopvac with the smallest vacuum attachment. That'll suck the hide off a rhino. If yours doesn't have a small attachment, I would just borrow one from the standard vacuum and tuck-tape it onto the shopvac to vacuum small openings. If that still doesn't work, try the blower setting on the shop vac, outdoors, and that amount of forced air could do the trick. If you don't have a shopvac, see if the opening is able to accommodate a Swiffer, the dry duster kind on a stick. Usually, that will fit into small areas, and it picks up a lot, and the duster part stays on the stick attachment without getting caught. If all else fails, try a flexible plastic stick or even an open coat hanger and put a ladies' stocking over it, wet and wrung out, and drag it along the area to be cleaned. The first time you turn it on, the heater will stink from burning off any residue that you couldn't get at, so I'd turn it on with an open window initially. Next time you store the thing, put it in a box or bag, or cover it.
blow it out with compressed air :)

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