Air Compressor Question

[steven Durham]

So True I never said a thing to my Son-in-law about it and he never complained to me about it. Maybe I should give him a pair of ear plugs unexplained for Christmas next year LOL
Steve

[Parliament]

I stick my compressor right outside the door and run the hose under the door. All I hear is the tool and my radio.

[rocketman]

I know everyone has there own opin. but let me recomend one set up that will supply most all of your needs from cutin to grinding to painting and anything else you need comp. air for and this is by all means the cheapest and most versatile of any that i have ever seen. First let me say my needs for comp. air are prob. not like anyone else, I have to have a moisture free air source, in five or six diff. locations {friends shops} as well as my own. Iv'e been restoring, repairing, rebuilding, painting bikes, cars,trucks,boats, and every thing else you can think of since 1981. This works!!! Find a small but high quality, highly portable comp. from the pawn shop, doesn't have to be high volume but high pressure is needed. Take it home and use it as is with a good water separator/ regulator. While you are enjoying your new comp. start looking for a water heater tank of substantial vol. 30 to 60 gal. use some common sense when rigging with fittings and quick couplers so air enters the tank as close to the bottom as pos. use one of the element ports to supply the outlet air, pref. the top outlet, come out with a "t" and use a drop leg for a drain for water with a ball valve on the end. On the other end of the tee put a quick connect facing up, use this for your supply outlet. I hope i have explained this well enough for you to understand what i am saying, you can spend thousands on a comp. and still benefit from the use of a tank like this, you will find that this setup will remove 90 , 95% of the moisture from the system, whitch is a must for sandblasting,bodywork and or painting, when you get ready to paint plug in a nice separator/ reg. and you're ready to go. As your budget for tools increases you can always get a bigger comp. The small oilless comps. are readily avail. and can be rebuilt with new sleve and piston for 25.00 and last a long time for the money. Oh i forgot to mention that the water heater tank will already have a drain at the very bottom on the side for easy draining, hope someone can use this system it really works.:scoote r:

[rocketman]

Oh i forgot to mention that the extra volume of air contained in the tank will free you up to do alot more work with air than you think. Within reason!!

[Oldsalt]

I'd be a little bit hesitent to put, say 125 psi, in a tank ment for 40 or so psi. But I suppose it's working O.K.

[rocketman]

Originally Posted by Oldsalt

I'd be a little bit hesitent to put, say 125 psi, in a tank ment for 40 or so psi. But I suppose it's working O.K.

Well just a little info to ease your mind, The best tanks other than large volume air tanks are old school water pump tanks whitch are tested to 300 psi, but i suppose they would be hard to find now that plumbing has changed so much over the years. So the cheapest alt. is a water heater tank whitch by the way all have pressure release valves rated at 125 psi min. not sure about test spec. but i know it is sig. more than rel. valve press. public water systems have spike pressures that before the mandate of pressure reducing valves were extremely high so the tanks had to be well built. I agree that if the rated test pressure was forty psi. it would be kinda like sitting on a time bomb, and i don't recommend that to anyone.

[george3]

here the deal gto is on the money once again. craigslist to buy. steve is on the money as well. do not buy that piece of junk on that link. CFM is what you want, NOT 5 cfm. you want doubble your tool. I like min. 16-18 cfm. 30gal. tank min. I like 60gal. with a 5HP single phase 220 motor. what ever you do make sure It has the mag starter. Or you will be calling somebody like me to install a mag starter and wire it. alot of choises out there. up rite are good space savers just sold a clean comerical speedaire recently. I built mine.

[shoe]

I bought this one from Harbor Frieght awhile ago when it was on sale , I have NO complaints at all It will run all my air tools with no problems at all , even my cheap Harbor frieght cut off tools that use way to much air Harbor Freight Tools - Quality Tools at the Lowest Prices it was on sale for like 600.00 when I got it

[rudedog]

Here's ours, going on almost 2 years I think. It had some of the best product reviews out there when we were looking.

Ingersoll Rand