[Closed] Experiences with garage compressors pls

I only have a small electric driven compressor but I actually use it loads in the bikes and cars of course.....it makes setting up tubeless wheels an absolute doddle.

i have a small ( 25l ) compressor .

it is great for tubeless , road bike wheels and to dry the bike in the winter .

But is that all you use it for? I like the idea of that and obviously using the air to clean things but what else do you guys manage to do?

I have a Clarke's one that I inherited. Use it quite often for tyres mainly. Once used the spray attachment for the tricky bits on my fence but really it's just a lazy man's track pump, love it 😀

With small compressors thats about the limit of it. Blowing up tyres....not really a lot more. They're good with nail guns if you're a joiner, but any other air tools that use anything more than quick pops of pressure consume far more air than a small 25 ltr compressor can deliver. They don't start to get properly useful (and bearable to listen to) until you get to 100 or 150 litres.

I resprayed my motorbike with mine but these days it's just tyres and airduster, and very occasionally impact gun (but you need a big compressor to run most powerful air impacts). I've got an air ratchet for it too but I hardly ever used that, it's more faff than it's worth imo.

I would like a sandblaster/media blaster though...

If you're buying one I'd say go big or go home. I've got a 25ltr I bought years back for airbrushing and whilst I can use it for tubless I find it lacks the pressure/volume to definitively, properly set up tubeless the way I'm used to with 200ltr workshop compressors. Blast them up in a split second.

Instead of the wee compressor I prefer to use an old fire extinguisher which I pressurize with a track pump and seat tyres with that, then finish them off with the track pump. Quite often I can get away with just the track pump which is just a shitty Airwave. If it's just for seating tubelss I'd sooner spend £60 on a high volume track pump and save some money.

If you did buy a big one you could use it for reciprocating saws, impact drivers, media blasters, respraying cars etc etc

Lvlp spray painting - done my landy chassis and axles with mine,

A tiny bit of spot blasting

Mostly use the blower attachment for cleaning up the shop and my table/chop saws after working.

Good for tubeless too.

Mines a 24 l i inherited . - use it so much im looking to upgrade to a 150/200l 3hp belt driven model next vat free day at machine mart.

Cheers fella as it think I get the jist... I still want one 😉

Please bear in mind a compressor is an incredibly inefficient way of powering anything other than compressed air.

Typical values would be 15% of energy in for usable output

I paint and restore cars at home so I ve got two plumbed into a piped and filtered system. 200ltr 4hp and 100ltr 3hp. So I can paint and run airfed mask at the same time.

Very handy for sanding, painting or getting tight bolts out, cutting etc.

Unless you work on vehicles not much point in a large compressor