Jack,
You need to check out spec data on any pneumatic tool you plan to purchase.
They all tell you what the optimum cfm is for the tool.
Then you can determine if this compressor is going to go for the long haul
or will be a stop gap expenditure. I can pretty much tell you that this
unit will not do for any of the Blast cabinets from Eastwood. they require
about 10 cfm at 90 psi to operate properly.
Larry Zink
1964 Spitfire4 Mk1
Houston, Texas
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack I. Brooks <brooks@belcotech.com>
To: Triumphs@autox.team.net <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: Air compressor sizing
>
>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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