Recent content by smalltimemillwright

I'm happy you found what you were looking but naturally, reciprocating compressors are more efficient than rotary screw. The problem lies in the screw to housing clearance. A recip is zero. Also you need to use some horsepower to run a cooling fan for the liquid and to pump the oil around the...

Well, what I recommend is to build a sound enclosure around a quality used reciprocating compressor. What I don't recommend for home shop use or even intermittent use is a compressor that has to come up to operating temperature. If you don't run the oil hot enough you will have rust inside the...