newish air compressor

[steve bain]

i am picking this up tonight. 150L, 3hp.

no questions. i'm just excited and wanted to tell someone as my wife isn't even the slightest bit interested!!

[mr.brown]

What air tools are you planning to buy?

[james butler]

nice! i could do with some thing like that.
whats the output of the pump?
invest in a decent water trap and regulator as your going to need it if your intending on spraying anything

[mark1gls]

I use my dads and they are great for de dusting your car especially the difficult bits around the dash and blowing up my tyres, make light work of both.
Jealous as I don't have my own...

[steve bain]

Don't know the pump output. It's 3hp if that helps. I understand its the largest you can go on 13amp and it fills up quickly. As its belt driven its suprisingly quiet too. This thing is huge! It's 1.5m long so it's in the basement where I can't see or hear it! Tool wise I have a load of unused ones which I bought with my first compressor (1.5hp / 25l) before realising it was gutless and couldn't power them! I would like to get a blast cabinet to clean bits up before I put them back on and a cut off tool and air nibbled. Other than that I have most. I think I should have bought this at the beginning of my restoration, not near the end. Ho hum.

[Nate]

I saw a setup once that had a big compressor like that with a little aldi 24L one linked to it. The little one was set to fire up before the big one, so if you were only using a little bit if air it was quieter to keep the tank topped up, but when he started using the plasma torch, they both fire up and could provide a serious volume of air

[steve bain]

Hmm. I have a 25l with a duff motor.....

[james butler]

hook up the 25l tank anyway as it will increase your capacity to 175l
trust me if your blasting stuff you will need the capacity.