This topic has probably been discussed ad nausem. Still I'd like you guys opinion on what to choose. Brand, model, power, delivery, weight, size, the whole bit.
One big enough to drive a nail gun, no more than two, is sufficient for me. I like my emglo 5hp gas wheeled twin barrel. It is way over kill and works only outdoors. I am looking to get a second, smaller, portable electric one.
Well, ok, maybe you can get by with a bit smaller one than that.
My critical opinions:
The little Porter Cable pancake 6 gallon works well. Easily carried on the job or from the garage to house. A kit with nail guns is available at a good price.
The portable electric ones seem to come in a couple variables:
Tube tank, or "pancake". Splash lubricated, or "oilless".
Beyond that, I'm not all that much help.
electric is way better than gas IF you have the choice. less noise and electric is like 60% more efficient. But if yourr in construction, gas might be better but i guess you can tap off the temp pole. Anyways. the biggest thing you need to know in "how big" is figure what tool uses the most "csfm" toolowners manuel will list in the specs. "CSFM" is cubic square feet per minute. Most tools will use aroun 4-7.5 . see how much each nail gun uses , add that and get a compressor that is listed to put out that many csfm.
According to Playintennis5274 :
Cubic square feet?
Ahem.
You mean CFM. There's no square feet in cubic feet ;-)
Nail guns don't use very much CFM. Usually less than 2, depending on how fast you go and what size nails you're firing.
My home brew air compressor with a 10 gal tank goes about half-hour between recharges with a 18ga nailer... Which is good, because the compressor is about
3/4 CFM.
No, he means SCFM
In many process applications there is a critical demand for a specific minimum flow in terms of some base or reference pressure, temperature and relative humidity. Many standards are used, the most common being the Compressed Air & Gas Institute (CAGI) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standards, which are 14.7 PSIA, 68Deg. F and 36% relative humidity. When you express your "Demand" in Standard CFM (SCFM), you are saying that you want this compressor or blower to deliver this CFM even at your worst case conditions.
Yep, there's a whole bunch of square feet in a cubic foot. We just stack them squre feet up until it's about a foot tall. And then it's cubic. We do things different in NYS.
No,
1 ft W X 1 ft L x 1 Ft H is one cubic foot. 1 ft W x 1 ft L is one Square foot.There are NOT "lots" of square feet in a cubic foot because a "square foot" does NOT have height, only length and width. So, there are NO square feet in a cubic foot; there is no correlation. You cannot calculate square feet in a cubic foot without giving each square foot a height, which turns it into . cubic feet. Square # cubic. No correlation.
Pop
I think he was kidding, Pop. :-)
Sure, you just take some of the flat ones and stand them on end.
Guess you didn't work at the same factory where I worked. We had so many square feet stacked up, hey if you woulda stood on the pile you could have touched the ceiling. Of course the pile was only a foot wide and so it was kinda tippy.
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