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Re: Air compressor sizing

To: "Jack I. Brooks" <brooks@belcotech.com>
Subject: Re: Air compressor sizing
From: Rod Randle <randle@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 21:31:59 -0700
Cc: Triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <3.0.5.16.19980406130437.48170698@nt-server.belcotech.com>
I have an oil less 3 hp compressor.  It seems like it can run quite a while
without any problem.  It does get hot though.  It is also the noisiest damn
thing I have ever been around.  I've had mine about 4 years and had no
problems.

Jack I. Brooks wrote:

> I was just in Price/Costco over lunch and noticed a DeVilbiss Pro AirII
> compressor for $229.  The specs are as follows:
>
> 5 HP
> 25 gallon tank
> Oil less pump
> 8.8 SCFM at 40psi
> 6.9 SCFM 1t 90 psi
> 125 psi max.
> 120 volt, 15 Amp
>
> I've been looking for a compressor for a while and this looks one looks
> pretty good. I don't expect to paint with it, but you never know, so I'd
> like it to be a decent machine.  Is a compressor like this capable of the
> extended air use a paint job, or shot blast job, might entail?
>
> BTW - I don't sit in a garaged, non-running LBC and go vroom, vroom, but I
> do make the voooot, voooot, voooooooooooot noise whenever I use a hand
> ratchet wrench.  :-)
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience.
>
> Jack Brooks



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