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That will work. A metal hydraulic oil reservoir also makes an excellent fuel tank.

I have straight 30W in one - you want various weights depending upon what you are using it on - this thicker oil is the bomb for lubricating floor and scissors jacks, hood hinges, and stuff like that. Try it on the wheels and moving joints on your floor jack. Especially on the wheels - you...

Count me in the no-additive camp, especially if there is a "seal conditioner/sealer" in there.

You'll be fine with what you picked. Run it!

Most compressor pumps specify a minimum pump RPM of 400. Watch your torque output from the motor using the VFD at low speeds - torque in a motor is directly proportional to current. There is no free lunch.

I disagree; those single-cylinder pumps are tiny. This is very similar to the duplex air compressors used on pneumatic-control HVAC systems - they are low-flow, low-pressure, high-reliability compressors designed to run for decades with minimal maintenance. So you crank up the pressure and...

The water issue can be dealt with by changing the oil on a regular basis. I've seen plenty of compressors with oil that had water in it in an emulsion just like happens when a coolant leak happens on a car engine, so I am not entirely convinced that there is a huge difference in this area. The...

Plenty of compressor OEMs have now switched to recommending regular ENGINE synthetic oil for air compressor pumps. I've been using it for two years now in multiple air compressors and it works great. No foaming, no carbon buildup, and it starts up great in the cold. This has been discussed on...

What was the outside temperature when the fuses blew? At some of the manufacturing companies that I used to work for, we had the air compressor outside, right behind the building. We would have to go out there with heat guns and warm up the pump if we wanted it to start below freezing, for the...

If you can pick one of those up. And then actually get it started. You forgot the smiley at the end :)

That second hole will get you every time! :shocking:

This is the most important point in the entire thread that cannot be emphasized enough, especially with the plethora of chinesium cords commonly available to us now. The majority of the resistance in the circuit is not typically from the wire, but it's in the connections. The fewer...

If you are close to an outside wall, simply using a remote air intake works very well, so long as you have a rubber coupler between the pump and the piping to isolate the vibration so it doesn't transfer/couple into the piping and whatever the piping is attached to.

That somewhat has to do with how it is assembled on the leg length. I assemble mine on a flat floor and use locktite on all of the fasteners so that nothing loosens up over time. One idea, if you don't need to ever close the top, is to permanently set the lid in the vertical position and put a...

Besides skunks, raccoons also dig up and eat the nests. I had one in a rotten tree root a few years ago, similar to the OP's situation, and I was pondering what to do about it (was in an area where I mowed right over the top of it which obviously is not good). Then one day I walked out to the...

I second the two-saw approach, as you will end up using the smaller saw for about 75% of your cutting. My current setup is a new Echo CS-361P with a 16" bar (to reach out farther for limbing, not for cutting larger wood) for the small saw, and an older Echo CS-520 (CL find for $100, in like-new...

[6 months later, while shopping online] "No way, Ryobi has an 18V cordless air vac now?" [gets credit card out] I cleaned off my neighbor's cedar shake roof for three hours yesterday. I just replaced the ridge caps, using an air stapler powered by a Craigslist $35 Husky oilless air compressor...

This video illustrates your point very well from Steve's Small Engine Saloon regarding the "bad stuff" in pump gas (maybe you watched it as well): And I agree, the most economical way is to mix your own fuel most of the year, and then for the last tank or two before winter storage, switch...

For that price, buy two and keep one for a spare!

Um, no. The big deal here is not running current, but starting current, which can be as high as eight times as much as the full-load current. Plus, a motor is an inductive load, not a resistive one, so interrupting current to such a load can cause a large arc at the contacts, depending upon...