Around the £150 mark?
SWMBO'd is contemplating buying me one for my birthday
I've got a SIP Airmate T2/25-O. It's from the oil free trade range, looks smart and seems to do the business. I paid just under £150 for it
from www.worldofpower.co.uk.
It does run out of puff if you are using a big spray gun but then again any compressor would without a really big tank.
Similar to welders Steve you want the highest CFM you can afford.
Cheers,
Bob
You can have my compressor for £70 then spend rest of cash on other stuff.
I sold one on ebay a bit ago where I had welded the tank ,only fetched £25
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Originally posted by DarrenW
You can have my compressor for £70 then spend rest of cash on other stuff.
I agree with the biggest is bestest, another advantage is that the big ones run at low rpm's and are quiet but the small ones sound like FS1E's ( a 50cc yamaha sports moped of the 70's which did about 50mph at 58,750rpm)
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Originally posted by aweekes1
I've got a SIP Airmate T2/25-O. It's from the oil free trade range, looks smart and seems to do the business. I paid just under £150 for it from www.worldofpower.co.uk.
It does run out of puff if you are using a big spray gun but then again any compressor would without a really big tank.
An oil-free compressor will be a LOT noisier than an 'oily' one, but they're all noisy. The oily ones are also easier to mend if they
go wrong. The down-side is that you'll have to put an oil separator & filter in the line if you want to spray paint, but if all you want is
to run some tools then oily is ideal.
David
P.S. I got mine from World of Power as well - gave me good service when the first one they sent was faulty. No quibbles - just changed it.
the noise is a big issue for me - mines too noisy it use often. 
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Originally posted by aweekes1
I've got a SIP Airmate T2/25-O. It's from the oil free trade range, looks smart and seems to do the business. I paid just under £150 for it from www.worldofpower.co.uk.
It does run out of puff if you are using a big spray gun but then again any compressor would without a really big tank.
How loud is this baby?
Did you plug it in at the shop to see how loud it was? 
. I've had a SIP for years now, it's a Stratus 'V' twin 3hp. It is oil
splash lube and is a noisy beggar but it does the job and at 11cfm will do anything I need. If I'm painting I tend to use a low pressure gravity
feed gun these days and the compressor can refill the tank while I'm still using it. Stuff like die grinders and cut off tools make it grunt
though, better getting the electric equivalent as they are cheap and use less power anyway. I fancy an air riveter but couldn't justify the cost
for the use it would get.
i was gonna get an air chiseler for work, but ended up with an electic one to aviod lugging the compresser about.
It's not too loud (tested it in the lounge last night)
When running you can talk over it if you talk very loudly, but don't need to shout.
Says 98db on the side, but don't think it is *that* loud.