[Shop-talk] Small compressors

[Karl Vacek]

Love mine too.  Incredibly quiet for the power.
Karl

On March 19, 2020 12:17:17 PM Arvid via Shop-talk 
<shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
> I have the 2-gallon version. Is great for staplers, filling tires, nail 
> gun, etc. Will actually run a small cutoff wheel for about 30 seconds. 
> Don't laugh. It only took 26 seconds to make the steel rod shorter!!! And 
> it seems to have reasonable recovery time.
> Between me being a little hard of hearing, the radio being on and how quiet 
> it is I never know when it is running. Very light and easy to carry. 20% 
> off coupon and $160 out the door.
> I think the 1-gallon is too small and the 4-gallon was heavier than I 
> wanted for a portable compressor. I have an 80 gallon 5hp if I need to do 
> anything serious but I can't remember the last time I bothered to get the 
> hose and find the nearest fitting. Easier to just carry the little one over 
> and plug it in.
> On 3/17/20 2:13 PM, Bill Rabel via Shop-talk wrote:
>> I bought one of those Harbor Freight 4-gallon compressors after hearing how 
>> quiet it is. Don’t dismiss it before you check it out.
>>
>> - Bill Rabel
>> Anacortes
>>
>>
>> “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in 
>> philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
>> Thomas Jefferson
>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2020, at 8:37 AM, Mark Andy via Shop-talk 
>>> <shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I haven't ever actually used one, but the first thing I'd check out would 
>>> be the inexpensive quiet compressors.  Stuff like this, though there are 
>>> obviously others...
>>>
>>> https://www.harborfreight.com/air-tools-compressors/air-compressors-tanks/2-gallon-135-psi-ultra-quiet-hand-carry-jobsite-air-compressor-64596.html
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:53 AM Jim Franklin via Shop-talk 
>>> <shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>> My Porter Cable pancake has a pinhole in the tank. I have abused it for 10+ 
>>> years and it doesn't owe me anything at this point. What do people like for 
>>> small, wheeled, quiet, inexpensive? I don't see myself staying in this 
>>> house much longer so I won't be installing lines and a nice stand up unit, 
>>> but I do need to fill car tires, run a framing nail gun.
>>>
>>> thanks,
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