Gun for compressed air

What kind of gun? Nail gun? Spray gun?

Anyway, you can always buy a regulator and regulate tank pressure down to the pressure required by the tool you're using.

Get a blowgun an use it. My compressor pushes 120 PSI and the regular-type blow guns work fine with it.

Oh, sorry, a blow gun.

You mean the ones that don't state a PSI limitation?

This one, for instance:

What's the burst strength of the portion upstream of the valve?

Thank you.

And now, just for your amusement, I did something ignorant. I found this white stuff wrapped around the male fitting, so I unpeeled it. I figured it was something to protect the fitting during travel. Now I know it was the teflon tape. I'll have to buy some more.

It's cheap. If you do any plumbing, you'll need it eventually, anyway.

What kind of gun? Paint gun? A tank without a compressor isn't good for much. You can inflate tires and you can put quite a few nails through a small gun before you need to add pressure. You have to look at the PSI limit and the air flow, e.g., 50 psi 5.7 cfm. Most compressors pump the tank up to a certain amount and also have an adjustable pressure limiter on the outlet which you adjust for the tool you use. Paint guns are usually fairly low and pressurized guns will blow the paint container apart if the max pressure is exceeded enough.

Most home compressors max out at about 135 psi, a few go to 150. Most products of that sort have burst strength of 1000 psi or more. We've been using them in my industry for 35 years and none has ever broken. Even if it did breaks, it would likely crack, rather than blow apart.

Even if the metal did crack, there's not enough volume inside the typical blow gun to generate an "explosion" . It would just leak. =20 Now, if the tank burst, parts of it would probably go through the wall..=20

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