[AT] Air compressors?

[John Hall]

Al, I've heard the oiless units can be quite loud. If you are wanting one 
that is portable then your choices are fairly limited. Have you considered 
buying a bigger one and installing air lines in the shop? If you plan on 
doing a lot of painting you'll need a fair amount of CFM to run a siphon 
feed gun. Do you guys plan on running large air tools such as 3/4 drive 
wrenches or sanders? I've never heard of anyone complaining they bought too 
big of a compressor. We just bought a new about 2 years ago from Lowes. 
About a 60 gallon tank cast iron unit. It still isn't big enough to handle 
the sandblaster I just bought so I am going to have to couple 2 compressors 
together for enough air when I am blasting.

If I were you I would try Northern Tool and Equipment or Lowes. Keep in mind 
also that the larger ones are 220V.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: [AT] Air compressors?


>
> Well our farm air compressor has gone "ka-put" and we have decided to
> trade up.  I need to be taken to school on them.  I have seen some
> pretty snazzy looking "oil-less" units, with upright 20-30 gallon tanks.
> They are nice and compact and look pretty powerful in terms of CFM and
> so forth.  Are they any good? The brand I was looking at was
> Campbell-Hausfield.  All we need is a little 25-30 gallon unit that we
> can wheel around, main duties will be to air up tires (every shape and
> size) and maybe run a pressure fed (not HVLP) paint gun.
>
> TIA
> Al
>
>