[Shotimes] OT (sort of): Air Tools

[Ron Nottingham]

I rarely use my air ratchet.  It sees limited use, mainly because I usually
do more damage to my hands than it removing any bolts or nuts.  For things
that aren't on tight, it's great, but what have you worked on, on a car that
wasn't put on by Hercules?  I use my impact more, just so I don't have to
keep changing.  I always keep a careful eye, to make sure I don't tighten
all the way down, then use my torque wrench.  Sometimes I remember that I
have an air ratchet and use it to put stuff back on, but forget and crack my
knuckles.  Don't use any chrome plated sockets, man when those things break
while using a compressor, all that metal goes flying everywhere!  Get the
impact sockets.

My father-in-law has the regular (non-anniversary) 30 gal. 6hp model (was
mine, before I went to a home built, 80 gal. 15hp :-).  It works great, and
has not given any problems in 4 years or so of it being purchased.

SHO content: My old Craftsman compressor helped rebuild my SHO :-)

Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Andretta" <passport@optonline.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: [Shotimes] OT (sort of): Air Tools


> I'm considering buying an air compressor for the garage.  One that I've
been
> attracted to for a while now is a 30 gallon 6 hp Craftsman model,
> particularly the 75th anniversary edition because its silver to match my
car
> and it has nice pneumatic tires.  It is a single stage oil free design and
> was way noisier than the more expensive two stage model.  Can someone
offer
> suggestions on this compressor or similar style single stage compressors.
> One thing that I was curious about with this style is the life expectancy.
> I don't want to buy a cheaper consumer grade unit and have it fail
> prematurely.
>
> I am of course planning to run a 1/2 impact wrench and various nail guns
> that I have off the unit.  Is an air ratchet a valuable investment?  There
> are a couple of other tools I might consider purchasing eventually but I
> won't use them all that much so I was planning on going the cheap
Taiwanese
> route.  For the impact wrench I was looking at a couple of Craftsman
models
> which look like they are made by IR.  I also saw some IR models that were
10
> bucks more than the Craftsman and some Chicago Pneumatic that looked
pretty
> nice.  I assume that impact sockets will be necessary for the impact
wrench.
> Will they also be need for an air ratchet?  The one thing I noticed about
> impact sockets is that they are expensive, even the cheap Taiwanese
brands.
> Any comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> SHO Content:  The compressor I like matches the color of my car and the
> tools would be used to fix it.
>
>
> Chris A
> 99 SF
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