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awemawson:
"Awweee..... Now you're just bragging Andrew...... :) "

Probably John but he did ask  :ddb:

One VERY useful thing I added earlier this year was an outside air hose reel of the 'garage forecourt' style complete with inflator mounted on a shed wall - intended for inflating tyres on the numerous vehicles here it has proved very useful when outdoor paint spraying. It turned up locally on eBay and no one else bid  :thumbup: One aside use is blowing out insides of computers as the dust stays outside !

Arbalist:
We had a couple of hydrovane compressors at work. Not silent but very much quieter than a normal compressor. Outside the budget of most hobbyists though, you really need to have a good reason to spend £1600 for air dusting or blowing up tyres! Not sure why the Far East haven't copied them yet, I'm sure a smaller version could land here for a couple of hundred quid.

AdeV:
I've got a 5hp compressor feeding its own 100ltr receiver, and an additional 150ltr receiver, so I've got tons of air on tap. I bought pretty much every air tool Screwfix/Toolstation do - drill, cut-off grinder (waste of time that one, no torque), air shears, nibbler, hammer wrench, ordinary wrench, inflator, air gun, sprayer, solvent sprayer... I've also just bought a Sealy air punch/joggler tool (brilliant) and I'm just ordering an air belt sander to get into those tight spots on the car where the grinding disks won't reach.

Air tools are great :)

Jonny:
Just a cheap 3hp 90ltr 10bar (145psi) for normal every day use as a blow gun. Gets used daily but for me not worth investing in larger neither could I power it whilst other machines are running.

I open a tap up to feed in to my hard plumbed in network to old Clark compressor 100ltr tank via dedicated  large bore water trap and reg with drop off points. Also the way run bead blaster but with another  filter and reg hard plumbed in 15mm bore piping which aids cooling. Production repetition I hate but might but not always power a Noga mister.

Do have right angled drills, tyre inflators, paraffin guns great for cleaning engines, impact drivers, grease gun contained quirts oil in to machine nipples, bulk feed grease gun no use, spray gun and HVLP spray gun.

The cheap don't last that long, had to get one fairly quick last year via ebay think it was £270 delivered to replace the Clark the pump had packed up. Not much difference in price to replace plus retained the 100ltr tank and motor.  The small sub £160 ones aren't any good for anything other than a blow gun but will blow a tyre up eventually, gave one of them away.

raynerd:
Hi guys, not been on here for a while and moved house shortly after posting so the entire thread became irrelevant to me. Ive now moved house and the workshop is not attached to the house so the purchase of a compressor has come back on the cards. I was working at a friends of a friends garage on my own car and his air tools made me want my own setup as I think they would be very useful! The air hammer wrench was fantastic as was the high speed Dremel like tool he used for deburing.

I don't really know what I am looking at. I'm going to have to go second hand because I can't afford new but to give me a useful setup that is worth having, what should I be looking for in terms of pressure and volume ?

I looked at the hydrovanes that John posted but the price of those is crazy! No noise is not so much of a consideration, anything else make and model wise that I should be searching for?

Chris

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