[Closed] Air Compressor - justification required please

Do you drill through brick often?

I wouldn't even justify a compressor for a bike, only remotely useful thing is getting a tubeless tyre seated and there's better (and cheaper) options for that. I bought a compressor a couple of years back, used it once and discovered it wasn't really any better than a track pump but made a shit load of noise and it's gathered dust/spiders ever since.

Re cordless drill not for very long off a 2.5cfm 50l compressor.

Basic rule of thumb is - the mains stand alone is probably better at the job if it exists.

But airtools are generally smaller and get into tighter spots.

Air spray equipment is much cheaper than a stand alone electric spray gun.

I have a 175 litres of air with 5cfm of compressor driving it and still have to watch what I'm doing with a lot of tools under extended use.

I use mine for tubeless because it's there but mostly it's used for car stuff. yesterday I knocked out some transit front wishbone bushes with the air chisel, the rattle gun alone was worth it and I've sprayed my car with it. It's earned its keep.

Would I buy one without a use above tubeless ....nah don't think I'd bother.

50L tank, , 9.6 cfm

neither one thing or the other really - far more than you need for a bike (given you don't really need a compressor at all) too small for just about anything else.

Anything that needs a continuous load (drills, grinders, spraying etc) will just run out of air halfway through whatever you're doing. They are good for nail guns or anything else that needs a sudden burst of power / action - and that's it really.

If you want to seat tyres get the smallest compressor you can - even ones that don't have a tank will store enough air / pressure in the hose to seat a tyre. (a 50 litre tank will hold around 500 litres of air at pressure, how big are your tyres?) or just use something cheap and cheerful like a garden sprayer.

I use mine (STS as the OP) for car tyres, bike tyres, blowing dust out of places, blowing water/mud off the bike, the cut-off disc is good, occasionally use the air chisel, would use the torque gun but my Aldi one is faulty. And I will use it to seat tubeless next time I attempt it. But it's not up to running continuously and doesn't delivery as much power to the tool as mains electric. Edit - as above, nail gun.

blowing dust out of a pc and seating tubeless tyres are the only things i use mine for, if i actually washed my bikes i would probably us it as a dryer but i don't 🙂

If you have kids and need to blow up swimming pools or other large inflatable stuff for the garden then they are brilliant. Might only happen half a dozen times a year but that alone makes it worth it.

trying to drill with that (and some soft of air powered drill) is using the wrong tool for the job.

Try some decent drill bits. My 9 year old 14V bosch will drill through most things with a good quality drill bit. If doing lots of hole then I pull out the £30 corded SDS from Lidl which was a temporary measure but ended up being pretty good.

If you want it for tyres then I would get a track pump with air cylinder or a remote cylinder thing as it's portable and you can use it in a nice warm kitchen or on a campsite etc.

We got one because I wanted to mess about with tubeless on a few sets of wheels and OH uses it for motorbike stuff (windy gun on front sprocket nuts!) and he uses it on the car sometimes. It's handy to have around, we could manage without it but it's easier not to.

Seats tubeless tyres stress free, do you need another reason 😄

Idea i I might use it spray paint the fence.

Use mine loads for drying the bike.

Also great for getting the Dyson spotless inside

Very handy for getting the briquettes going in the BBQ  - simulating blast furnace.

You can get silent ones very cheap now - in your budget - and they will definitely be kinder  to yours and everybody elses ears.

Couple of points - safety specs for blowing out dust and make yourself aware of the dangers - do not mess about with

compressed air - do not let kids play with it etc.

Thanks for the replies. I do have a cylinder pump which works up to 4.0 tyres but it won’t touch 4.8 tubeless tyres despite trying all the usual tricks.

Looks like I’m going to have buy it without any justifications 🙂

Very handy for getting the briquettes going in the BBQ  – simulating blast furnace.

OH used ours to get his hipster-tastic pizza oven going- cue sound of Saturn V rocket taking off...

You can get silent ones very cheap now – in your budget – and they will definitely be kinder  to yours and everybody elses ears.

Any chance you can link one you know is silent/very quiet? Not saying they don't exist but I don't trust manufacturer claims and surprised if cheap ones have good enough internals or external damping for that.

I borrowed one to flush out the air con system in our van. Apart from that I've never needed one. It'll probably just get in the way.

The ORAZIO  brand  compressors are the typical  ones  - there are video  reviews online ,  not "silent"  but low noise ,compared with typical direct drive. I have a Bambi BB50D  for home ,  that is even  less  noise  but expensive .

Silent compressors:

http://www.jun-air.com/product_overview_quiet_air.aspx

Very expensive.

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/quiet-run-compressor-2/

Had 2 of these. Useless. 1st one failed and replaced under warranty. 2nd one failed just outside (few weeks) original 12 month warranty. Machine Mart would not repair under warranty. They wanted me to pay. They quoted more than it would cost to buy a new one. Not impressed.