Air Compressor recomendations

[F1 NDW]

I'm looking for an Air Compressor for my garage.
6-7cfm, 2-2.5hp, 8 bar ish.
Any recommendations from you guy’s in the know?

[Retman]

Lidl were doing a special deal today (seriously) at £99.99 plus extra for tools. Think it was 8 bar but not sure about flow. Suspect someone on here will be along to sell you something a little more industrial shortly.

[Jockman]

Mikey K sells such equipment for a living if you want to drop him a line

BTW, your new house is copying my house

[michael gould]

ive got a couple of old screw compressors (25 cfm) but you will need 415V

[mikey k]

Jockman said:

Mikey K sells such equipment for a living if you want to drop him a line

Not that small I don't
That is only ~1.5 kW and should be fine on 230V single phase
That Lidl deal is cheap, Machine Mart do some good ones -at this level it is a lottery on how long they last/how good they are
Couple of pieces of advice;
1) at this level they will be piston machines designed for intermittent use DON'T hammer them they WILL break!
2) Get one on a good sized receiver and make sure you drain the water regularly
3) keep the pump unit cool ~85% of the power will be heat

More than happy to talk about 415V compressor

[F1 NDW]

Ok guy's thanks. I have been looking at the Machine Mart offerings.
I was just hoping someone might have already tried one and could confirm how reliable they are. I'll just have to get the best one I can afford. It's got to be single phase 240V 13 amp max.

[George29]

Jockman said:

BTW, your new house is copying my house

Except Neil's is built at a scale to suit a normal sized person?

[F1 NDW]

Jockman said:

BTW, your new house is copying my house

Jan wanted white but the builder wanted beige so he started it while she was on holiday. Done deal when she got back. Fortunately she is now glad he did it that colour. I agreed with him all the way but I didnt tell her that.

[Lunablack]

I have one of these......it's had a fair bit of use over the years, and given no trouble at all...... I've had it about 7 years, and its powered a sand blaster, and all my air tools just fine..

http://www.abac-support.co.uk/individualmodels/Bel...

Edited by Lunablack on Thursday 14th March 13:41

[mikey k]

Lunablack said:

I have one of these......it's had a fair bit of use over the years, and given no trouble at all...... I've had it about 7 years, and its powered a sand blaster, and all my air tools just fine..

http://www.abac-support.co.uk/individualmodels/Bel...

Good little machine but pricey
I'd go with a smaller pump unit and a larger receiver (unless you are doing a lot of sand blasting)

[Jockman]

mikey k said:

Not that small I don't

I appreciate that matey but I still felt you could contribute to the discussion

Which you did

I'm ignoring George's dwarfist comments

[mikey k]

Jockman said:

mikey k said:

Not that small I don't

I appreciate that matey but I still felt you could contribute to the discussion

Which you did

I'm ignoring George's dwarfist comments

[Lunablack]

mikey k said:

Good little machine but pricey

I found it difficult today no, at £30 quid brand new, complete with all manuals, and delivered from London in the price

[Jockman]

Yo Neil....I'm not overly 'compressed' by your spelling of recommendation either.

You see what I did there ??

[mikey k]

Lunablack said:

mikey k said:

Good little machine but pricey

I found it difficult today no, at £30 quid brand new, complete with all manuals, and delivered from London in the price

Que?

[Jockman]

Lunablack said:

I found it difficult today no, at £30 quid brand new, complete with all manuals, and delivered from London in the price

Luna - you been drinking that green lipstick ??

[F1 NDW]

Jockman said:

Yo Neil....I'm not overly 'compressed' by your spelling of recommendation either.

You see what I did there ??

It's the American way Phil. I'm in Brazil!

You noticed of course that I got it right in the text. Unfortunately by the time I noticed I could not go back and edit the title.

[George29]

F1 NDW said:

It's the American way Phil. I'm in Brazil!

Shouldn't it be the Portugese way then?

[Lunablack]

mikey k said:

Que?

Our factories used to have an intranet thingy, where surplus equipment was put up so that if another factory was in need of somthing they could ask for it......

It was usually full of crap like desks, chairs, and lockers.... Very rarely somthing decent would come up...
This compressor was bought as a backup and never used, so the engineer put it on the intranet..... No other factory put in a request...so they put it up for any employee to buy.... Sealed bids in an envelope..

I bid £30 quid..... It was the only bid they got..... So they sent it up on a pallet..... It didn't even have a plug on it brand spanking new, never been used and wrapped in clingfilm....

D you think I'd get my money back if I put it on eBay

[F1 NDW]

George29 said:

Shouldn't it be the Portugese way then?

Yes thats the Portuguese way as well George.