Thread: Air compressor buying tips?

Get a Clisby if u can.

DD

Originally Posted by matthew_g

How do you work that out ??? A die grinder only needs 90psi @6cfm roughly...
Well thats the rating on mine and they are all pretty close in there requirements
Matt

If your DG only needs 6cfm @90psi it must be micro sized, my DG's rating is 6cfm too yet my 14cfm Clisby will not support it without a pressure drop to 70psi, dont believe the rating its a con because its ratted in free air not under load... its like putting your car up on stands and claiming 100mpg
Check this decent air DG out read the spec's

Welder Mick,

Are there any compressor repair shops relatively close by? I picked up a reco'd 17CFM/80L tank upright machine years ago for $500.

cheers

Kevin

I picked up a brand new Ingersoll Rand 17cfm compressor a few years ago, with a 20M hose thrown in for around $750 at a trade night at a local compressor place. Its capacity has yet to let me down, but it does kick in and out more frequently when the pneumatic drill is going. I've yet to spray with it, but it should cope fine.

A Plasma Cutter... that's on the wish list.

Originally Posted by Harry72

If your DG only needs 6cfm @90psi it must be micro sized, my DG's rating is 6cfm too yet my 14cfm Clisby will not support it without a pressure drop to 70psi, dont believe the rating its a con because its ratted in free air not under load... its like putting your car up on stands and claiming 100mpg
Check this decent air DG out read the spec's

Thanks for that Harry72, But you also need to remember that earlier on in the thread I mentioned that I am running 17cfm and a 20cfm depending on the job I am doing..My 17 will run a DG all day every day at 90psi....
I would have to agree that if a compressor was a little smaller it would probably need a pressure drop..
Matt

Originally Posted by rathkool

Are there any compressor repair shops relatively close by? I picked up a reco'd 17CFM/80L tank upright machine years ago for $500

Kevin, thanks - I haven't come across any but hadn't thought of that so that so'll have to hit the phone book. An upright tank would suit my situation pretty well I reckon. How mobile is it? Cheers - Mick

Yonnee, thanks I'll check these out too. cheers - Mick

Mick,

Not very mobile, being rather top heavy but if I do need to move it, a sack or better a fridge trolley does the trick.

cheers

Kevin