small, portable compressor...

[Luckydevil]

I got the one below from a relative, but this thing makes nowhere near enough cfm's to actually run any air tools. If I were to buy an air tank could I fill that and then use the tank to run air tools?

Just trying to get some ideas on what the hell I can use this thing for.

[Luckydevil]

well, i found the answer to my question :deathmeta

http://www.thebugshop.org/othersites/airspud/airspud_home.html

[1ownerT]

In a word, no. The tank will lose pressure fast with air tools and then your in the same boat. That small compressor will not keep up.

I like the idea of the spud gun :thumbup:

[OI812]

Spud Gun YES--air tools NO

[OI812]

This got me thinking about a job I was on one time. It was at a large food processing plant(can't say which one) and they had a non edible line. Basically all the junk, and stuff that gets dropped goes in there. This stuff is then pushed up a 10" pipe over a roof and down into an open top semi trailer. Anyway this was late winter to early spring.

This is what happened and No B.S.

They were pushing these things that kind of look like a brat, up this 10" pipe with this huge piston pump. They cleaned everything up that was in the room and left for the night. The line goes over a roof in the cold, and it froze shut. The crew came in the next day and tried to add more stuff and push with this big piston. It wouldn't go, so they put the plant air behind it(150psi). Still wouldn't go, so they went to break. While they were on break the sun hit the pipe and warmed it slightly. Just enough so that it got moving. This wade of frozen brat or sausage like items exited the 10" pipe with great force. The force was so great that it literaly ripped a steel door in half. It (frozen brat, sausage or weiners) flew down an alley way about 300' and exploded all over the place. There was a guy outside this door when it blew through the door and he got hit with all the frozen objects. He was black and blue all over his body from getting hit by the frozen objects.

So remember it is PSI, the large the diameter and the longer the pipe the more force there is.

[tonydanzah]

The very first thread.