DeVilbiss Air Compressors - Are They Any Good?

There are only a few manufacturers of air compressors. Most are made by the same company and labeled accordingly.

If the compressor has the features you are looing for and has a comparable warranty it should be OK.

Typically cast iron and oil lubricated units will last the longest. A magnet will tell you if it is aluminum or iron.

Used to be DeVilbis, Ingersol Rand and Copeland were top of the heap

- a commercial DeVilbis is still a good compressor. SO is an IR. Sanborn makes all their own components - and appear to be pretty good. Copeland is now almost exclusively in the refrigeration market now.

Lots of REALLY CRAPPY compressors on the market

I have a bottom of the line Harbor Freight compressor, mostly used for cleaning small things, blowing out water lines and a pin/staple nail gun. Although the compressor has rubber mounts, the hard copper line from compressor to tank is solidly attached to the tank and is too short to have a coil or two for handling vibration. The copper finally gave way in an obvious stress fracture. Think I'll just build up a lip of solder on each of the broken ends and use some plasctic air line and hose clamps to provide the needed vibration isolation when I repair it. The plastic air line is cheap and 6-8 inches of it would make a nice vibration isolator. If the plastic line fails in the future, that would be a 10 minute repair.

Yes, it's loud to be so small.

I would likely replace it with a longer piece of copper tube with a coil in it, and I would anneal the tube before installing it. Either that or replace it with a copper/nickel alloy line if the right sise was readilly available

And a good reason to stick with cast iron oil lubricated.

Actually mine is cast iron sleave and oil lubricated if I remember correctly. Just like most industrial small engines over the last several decades.

garage- for car tires, blowing,nail guns ect. We just moved into a townhou se so low decibels is a high priority. Some online liked the California Air Tool CAT 2010A at $185 ,2 gallon tank and 2.2 cfm@90 psi with about 65 dec ibels. But then other reviews claimed theirs leaked badly they sent it back and the 2nd one leaked too.Mixed reviews all over. Is Cal Air Tool any goo d? Is Devilbiss better? Also quiet?

The regulator knob on my old HF hot dog compressor stripped out so there was no way to regulate the output. I put it on CL Free and included a link to the part. Probably got 10 calls in the first hour, before I pulled the ad. The first guy that called came over and took it away.

I had already found a brand new Porter Cable 6 gal pancake, 3 tool combo on CL for $175 (sells for ~$250). Offered the guy $150 and loaded it in the van. (The guy's tenant had bought it, then got transferred out of town and couldn't take it with him. The seller basically wanted the big box out of his garage.)

My son bought me a 50' hose reel for the garage, so I ran PEX from the compressor to the hose reel and down into the basement shop. The compressor lives in the garage, not like the old HF one that I used to carry around. When I replaced all the trim on the first floor last year, the only thing in the house was a lot of hose and the nail guns. So much quieter than having the compressor in the same room.

When I started doing the hardwood flooring in my house I had a hotdog compressor that I had "inherited". It overheated and died about 3 hours in so I ran the hose from the compressor in the garage. A lot quieter for sure and I didn't miss the hot smell at all either.

The 2 HP unit on a 100 lb propane tank had no trouble keeping up

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