Air compressors

[anonymous-user]

Not really too sure of the best place to put this, but this forum seems as good as any.

I'm looking to buy an air compressor for workshop use, spending somewhere in the region of £400 or so.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

So far, Sealey, Draper and SIP all seem to be similarly priced for the same power/receiver/cfm spec, but Clarke appear to be much cheaper. For example, a 3hp/10cfm ish compressor is about £400 from those three, but Clarke do a 3hp/14cfm/150l for £350! So what's wrong with it?

[anonymous-user]

Thanks for all the pointers guys.

I'm going to be using it for various workshop jobs, ratchets, impact wrenches, drills, tyre inflators, that sort of thing. Possibly solvent and waxoyl sprayers and anything else I can think of in the process of building a kit car, restoring a Mk1 golf and rebuilding a few engines.

As or noise, whilst I don't want it to be hugely loud, my workshop's on a farm so it's not too much of a problem.

As for where to buy it, I'd taken a look around Toolsnstuff, so will give Patrick a call and see if there's anything he can do to grease the wheels.

Thanks again.