shindha
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| posted on 3/8/11 at 12:20 PM |
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Air Compressor which one to buy?
Hello All,
Was looking at this compressor with the spec as listed:
Clarke Air compressor Warrior Air30 8.7cfm 2Hp 10 bar
I was after some advice as to how would this cope with home use cosisting mainly of occasional shot blasting, tools - cutting, grinding and impact
work in a garage with confined space. My budget is about £200 thats including tools.
Would this spec be sufficient or would I need to spend a bit more and get something better?
If any body would like to suggest alternative specifications I would be grate full.
Thanks for looking all replies and answers greatly appreciated.
Regards
Shindha.
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coozer
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| posted on 3/8/11 at 12:24 PM |
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Thats marginal there for what you want to use.
A belt drive job is better and you can pick up a good 3hp 15cfm one for about £200. I did and its fantastic!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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jossey
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| posted on 3/8/11 at 12:30 PM |
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its a noisey compressor but will do most things is small doses.
try get one with 11cfm if poss as most of my tools use around that much air.
Thanks
David Johnson
Building my tiger avon slowly but surely.
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hughpinder
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| posted on 3/8/11 at 01:05 PM |
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You will run most rotary tools off that(drills, saws, grinders, impact wrench etc).
Spraying would be marginal with 8cuft/min - depends on the spray gun.
My 3hp/14cuft/min/150l receiver clarke doesn't really do sand blasting effectively - ok if you want to do a few square inches, but you blast for
a few seconds, wait a couple of minutes for recharge and repeat - gets a bit tedious.
The machine mart site will tell you the cuft/min requirement for each tool.
Regards
Hugh
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Litemoth
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| posted on 3/8/11 at 02:06 PM |
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In my experience, 14cfm is about the lowest you should go for general workshop use. As said above, you'll be hanging around waiting for the
thing to catch up all the time and it really interrupts the flow ('scuse the punn). A bigger tank helps but if you're doing a few hours
work with one, it'll be working it's nuts off trying to keep up.
Something like this V twin ...
LINKY
or this:
Air Compressor 3HP 50 ltr litre 14CFM V-Twin NEW | eBay
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