First off, I hope you find a better job. When a door shuts, another opens. Secondly, more bad news. You wont find a good 12v. air compressor, what you can do is look into under the hood belt driven compressors, they are extremely reliable. I work on fire equipment, and have been around alot of compressors. I have replaced 2 on board 12v. air compressors, on the same vehicle. These units keep the air up on firetrucks (for the brakes, horns, pumps, and even windshield wipers) when they are idle in the station. Lastly, I replaced the 12v. units prone to failing with a 120v.AC unit. Its been holding strong ever since.
12v. DC is in my opinion the worst supply of air. You want to fill a tire, go get a lil pancake compressor for 150 bux and extension cords. You can even run it at the house, unplug, go to the flat tire, and inflate the tire with the pressure in the tank. And the thing takes up a lil more room than a milk crate.
Personally, I have a small electric 120v compressor, a converted freon tank with quick connects for garden tractor tires, and for when I have to inflate a fire truck tire on he side of the highway, I keep 6 SCOTT breathing air packs (fire dept. equipment) ea. charged at 3000 psi.
Sorry, edited your post to exclude the curses.
This question is not related to Ford trucks but I have had good luck
>receiving excellent answers on this NG so I figured, what the hell. >
>First, a rant. I must admit to being very pissed off and to having knocked
>back several cold longnecks. I work back stockroom for a major retailer
>(NOT Wal-DELETE-Mart). I clock in at 0400; the truck crew unloads the
>overnight truck and pushes merchandise to the floor or to us to backstock.
>When we arrive, 45 - 50 internal orders have been generated by yesterday's
>sales and we are timed as to how long it takes us to complete these. We are
>expected to have them completed by 0800 at which time we start shelving the
>backstock coming off the truck, then, we shelve the backstock coming from
>the floor. As with all retail work, the company keeps everyone under 40
>hours a week and pushes us hard to meet timelines and get the hell out of
>there so we don't run up the payroll. This is a new store, open only four
>weeks. Every DELETE Saturday since we opened, the genius MBA who runs the
>store has let 2/3 of the backroom crew have Saturday and Sunday off -- so,
>we arrive at 0400 Saturday morning to find a 2500-piece truck (1700 is
>normal) with 1/3 of the people to work it and he expects us to meet the same
>timelines. We did it but I am exhausted -- I am the only man (and I'm 62)
>on the crew and the women call me to haul heavy DELETE up the ladder.
> HOWEVER -- the District Manager did a walk through this morning about five
>minutes after I had skinned up my shin on the forklift and he asked cheerily
>"How's it going?" to which I replied "Not worth a goddam." He asked for
>details and he got the details after which he and the store manager
>immediately adjourned to the SM's office. Guess I won't have a job Monday
>but, damn, if felt good.
>
>End of rant. Here's the question.
>
>I am looking for a REAL air compressor that runs on 12VDC and that has REAL
>AMERICAN QUICK RELEASE FITTINGS.
>
>Not this POS:
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>And not one of the 12VDC "inflators" that Sears, Wal-DELETE-Mart,
>Auto-Zone, O'Reilly's, and similar places sell.
>
>I want a small, 12VDC air compressor that HAS REAL AMERICAN QUICK RELEASE
>FITTINGS -- not the Chinese metric size quick release fittings found on the
>POS that I have now.
>
>I want to be able to attach a REAL air chuck to the hose. Every 12VDC
>compressor I have found so far has either:
>1. A brass coupling permanently attached to the hose -- it threads onto the
>valve stem -- OR
>2. A quick-release fitting with a lever-type clamp permanently attached to
>the air hose.
>
>I don't need a zillion CFM at 200 PSI -- just enough to inflate a tire but I
>want to be able to put a REAL TIRE CHUCK on the end of the hose. >
>Thanks for listening.
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