My lovely other half has decided that it's my birthday, and she's run out of Land Rover stuff to buy me, she's going to get me a compressor for my soon to be finished workshop.
One she's seen in Machine Mart (what a girl!) are about =A3120. So thats my budget. Any recommendation?
Dave
What do you want to use it for? A sensible spec. for continual impact wrench use would be very different from that needed for a little light airbrush use.
get atleast 2.5-3hp and as big a tank as you can afford. I struggle to spray big panels with a 30L tank - you can just do it if you are careful and can polish the edge in afterwards but more capacity would be great!
Dave R uttered summat worrerz funny about:
Ring there help line - let them know what tools you want to use and they will tell you what compressor to get. Thats what I did when I got the plasma cutter that eats air.
The text in the catalogues can be very misleading.
Lee D
I agree I tried a 24 litre with impact drivers and ended up getting a bigger unit I reckon 50 litres is a much better buy I got the MM catalogue today for about the money there is 000110864
Not tempted to buy a bigger plasma cutter lee? ;)
Thank you all, The reason i didnt mention what I was going to use it for was because i didnt really know. A bit of spraying is likely
The one that Derek mentioned
Dave
Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:
:-)
I have toyed with passing the plasma cutter on due to the lack of use, would pay for a nice new lense for the camera which gets alot more use.
No rude offer refused ;-)
Lee D
YHM!
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Thank you all, The reason i didnt mention what I was going to use it for was because i didnt really know. A bit of spraying is likely
The one that Derek mentioned
Dave
Big list mate ( I think Netto did a load last week so likely still some about very cheap ) Spray gun, Shutz gun, air ratchet , impact driver, nibbler, cutoff tool , metal shears, drill , airline,grinder, pop riveter ( saves a load of grief), stapler/nailgun etc etc because you are not using it on a production line the compressor gets time to catch up though I reckon spraying say the side of 101 might be pushing it a bit 7cfm is a fair rate.Machine mart usually post a consumption table (optomistic IMO) or check on this list for cfm and your christmas list
When spraying with a small tank you run out of air - which means you have to stop and wait for the tank to refil again. I could get half a car bonnet/roof out of mine before having to stop and wait for a minute before doing the other half - obviuosly this means that you can end up with a visible line in the spraying where the wet edge has dryed (which can take some polishing out afterwards!) . When it runs out of puff it also doesnt spray properly. my gun starts blowing big lumps rather than a nice fine spray when it runs out of air pressure..
I was using a HVLP gun and a 2.5hp compressor (which has a lot more grunt that the 1.5hp ones like the OP is looking at but a 30l tank) - and even that couldnt keep up with the amount of air that the spray gun wanted.
With air tools - running my cheap impact wrench at 90psi I get maybe
20-30 seconds of go from it before i can hear the compressor kick in again to recharge the tank - There isnt enough air to take all the stubborn nuts off a single 101 wheel without a wait for it to recharge.On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:24:44 +0100, "karangahape" wrote: I
thinking further - this would be true if you had a really really powerful pump/compressor attached to your tank. It needs to produce more air than you can use - but like i said - my compressor wont do that and it is higher rated than the ones the OP is considering.
Have you kept the compressor tank from the 101? I'm thinking of devising a method to twin tank my compressor using the 101 tank as well.
-- "For those who are missing Blair - aim more carefully."
To reply direct rot13 me
bURRt the 101 Camper
yes kept it and plan to do the same! :) im going to build a shelf to hold it round the back of my shed (compressor is going in the shed in a heavily insulated box to cut down on the noise!)
It is simple to plumb up twin recievers on a compressor from what i have read. You just need to T it in. Since a pipe on my compressor broke its using 101 braided hose already to feed the regulator so should be easy!.
I have all the 101 pipework stashed in the loft - im sure there were some T pieces in there.
Just gonna put one of them in before the output regulator/water trap. Will probably do it all through some of the quick release connectors too so I can move it about easily if needed.
On or around Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:54:04 -0700, Dave R enlightened us thusly:
I've got a small one here, 2HP/25l, and I've stopped using it in favour of one of these:
nice bit of kit but it needs a good supply - running it on a too-long, not fat enough extension lead to it failing to re-start. Now it's on a shorter fatter extension it kicks in OK.
One she's seen in Machine Mart (what a girl!) are about £120. So thats my budget. Any recommendation?
Dave
I meant to add most of the compressors apart from the swingeingly expensive kit use Euro std connectors which cost a bomb
On or around Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:00:13 GMT, "Derek" enlightened us thusly:
convert it to PCL by buying the appropriate fittings. 's what all the garages I've seen use, I've no idea why anyone thought it sensible to supply a different fitting.
Axminster's one came with a female PCL.
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