Merry Christmass to ME!!

Nice score... I've been looking at an Ingersol Rand 30 gal. upright but I know I don't have room for it! The wife continues to wipe the drool from my chin and I suspect I'll get *another* 5-pc adjustable wrench set for Christmas.

-Brian

If you join the Craftsman Club, you'll get an additional 10% off. I just did that and went with the up-right version of the same thing.

Good Luck and Merry X-mas

Don/i8tokyo

OOoohhh man that kind of compressors is EXTREMELY NOISY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A very good friend/neighbor bought one and I kid you not, it can wake the dead. I learned from his mistake and made sure I did not buy an oil-less single stage compressor like all of the red-tanked Craftsman compressors are. They sound like a buzz saw when they're running and you soon grow to hate the loud buzzy sound they make when running. A two-stage Craftsman (their black tanked models) or any belt-driven model is much quieter and longer lasting.

If you have close-by neighbors or don't like the have the crap scared out of you when it unexpectedly cycles on, you may consider swapping it for a belt driven model (Sears carries the Campbell Hausfield that is still inexpensive) or one of their 2 stage black tanked models, either of which are far quieter and won't rattle your nerves or make your neighbors hate you. :)

Jerry

Jerry's right, they are noisy compared to the belt drive. I have an eighty gallon that is stationary and puts out half the noise of the single stage. But for an inexpensive, portable unit, these do a good job. I replaced a Campbell Hausfield 20 gallon portable with the Craftsman upright and went up

10 gallons and down a few decibels at the same time. BTW, the Campbell had been around for about fifteen years and still ran great, but had developed a hole on the top of the tank. I could understand a hole on the bottom if I forgot to drain, but on top?!? Oh well. Merry X-mas!

Don

Jerry Bransford did pass the time by typing:

Not unlike mine.

:)

Sad innit.

I think it's all relative. I had it running in the garage to break it in. The baby slept through it (bedroom above the garage). She is a LIGHT sleeper. Plus, I don';t use it to make a living, just weekend warrior stuff...

L.W. (ßill) Hughes III did pass the time by typing:

You must have high humidity. I've seen several makeshift solutions. One was a stubdown to a trap with bleeder just before the hose connector and the other was a separate tank fit inside an old refrigerator. Guess the idea there was the hot air would enter the chilled air and instantly loose any moisture. It then went to a third storage tank and on to the paint booth. Saw that down in Gulfport MS. Can't remember the shop though. I just remember thinking Rube Goldberg would be proud.

sight glass

Got one (with that fancy laser sight thingy)

What do you use a miter saw on for a Jeep? Real Jeeps don't have miter cuts....(grin)

Best, and enjoy the saw...

Don

That was weird. I did not click send... Went out and bought a spray gun

topaint an old dresser. It's rated at 11.5 CFM (50 PSI); my compressor israted at 8.6 CFM (40 PSI). The guy at Harnor Frieght said it would workfine for what I wanted. What I'm noticing is that the paint comes out inpulses (if I spray back and forth, it comes out in a dashed line instead ofsmooth). Is this the gun or the low CFM or my compressor? Also, anybody know where I can find out how much to thin my paint (regular latex). The gun manual says to look at the directions on the paint, the paint says to look on the gun...

D-OH! That would be CTRL + ENTER ...

duh

I am by no means an expert in this, but I would say that sounds like exactly what you thought; your compressor's CFM output isn't sufficient to keep that gun fed properly.

When a compressor is pumping, it is, by nature, pumping in pulses. If you run the tank dry, then you don't have it to help regulate the flow of air. Then, if you further use a tool that allows a higher flow than your max CFM, then your compressor can't keep the actual line regulator fed enough, so that the pressure drops between each compression stroke of the compressor engine.

My recommendation, if this is just a rare task for your compressor, and if your paint doesn't set up so fast that this is not feasible, is to paint slower ;-). Let the compressor refill the tank enough between paint strokes so that you are running off the stored air on each paint stroke, rather than the output from the compressor engine. This recommendation assumes that even though your compressor engine can't keep up with the requisite 11+ CFM, that the hose and regulator line out of the tank CAN. If not, then you'd have to replace them with higher-flow parts.

That makes sense... I think it happened with a full tank too which confuses me (not hard to do).