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Air Compressors
paul_humphreys:
Belt driven are better than direct drive. But I have both. My direct drive 50l tank with 3hp motor and 12 CFM free air cost just under £300. I also have a 250l tank belt driven one with a 3hp motor its about 25cfm. It takes a long tine to build up, thats why I have the smaller one as well.
Paul
Range Rover Blues:
VAT free day due in Jan or early Feb apparently. £250-300 gets you just inside the sort of thing you wnat and if you are going to use it a lot then avaid oil free, unless you are spraying as some folks don't like the oil in their air when the rings start to go but typicaly a well maintained oily compressor lasts longer and is cheaper to fix when bust.
Have a trawl round the auto jumbles.
BTW, MAchine MArt do a couple of 12.5 CFM compressors with decent sized reservoirs for around £200, I've just looked.
CFM is what you need, anything other than a spray gun and you need some cubes. The figure is free air delivery BTW so when looking at the consumption of your tools, when they say 4 CFM that's at pressure, double that at least if not treble and add one for good measure, 4 cfm tools need at least 9cfm FAD.
smo:
Most of the figues MM quote are displacement and not free air, i was looking at a hunter 60, which seems a bargain as its quoted as 12.5CFM....displacemetn, the FAD is 9.3cfm.
Not very clear labelling!
Range Rover Blues:
But with 9.5 FAD, yes it's a bit of a con, but you could happily run most of the tools they sell, one at a time. What gets me is they sell all these tools alongside compressors that can't run them, even briefly.
ringo:
Im not a big fan of resurecting old threads, but im really intertested to find out what the outcome was of this.
So smo, what compressor did you get ?
Thanks
Ringo
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