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Recommend me an air compressor accessories kit for cheap

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1982fxr

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Got my first compressor, a Craftsman 150 psi 30 gallon upright. I need an accessories kit, you know, a hose, blow gun, etc. This will be rarely used so i don't want to spend much.

Is there much difference between the stuff at harbor freight, home depot, etc?? Listening to any advice, thanks as always.
 
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Buy a goodyear hose from Northern Tools if Harbor Freight doesn't have them, and buy a kit from harborfreight and replace pieces as they break with better quality ones... They will last a while for someone who doesn't use them much, but if you find they are breaking then you might want to upgrade. You can buy a kit for like $7 from HF
 
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I use only the HF blow gun out of that set.

Their (HF) fittings and couplings are minimum std. as best and when a coupler fails and the hose whips up and hits you in the nuts you will being buying Milton fittings the next day. (If you can walk.) :)

If not Goodyear at HF then source them elsewhere as I find them a minimum unless using short Flexzilla coil hoses.

If you must do HF I like the brass males, but again, the females like to leak or fail.

I;ve got two that that need to be replaced on two of the many hoses I keep around.

And the tire filler that comes with the HF set is even worse than the fitttings. Garbage.
 
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mayday0017 said:
Buy a goodyear hose from Northern Tools if Harbor Freight doesn't have them, and buy a kit from harborfreight and replace pieces as they break with better quality ones... They will last a while for someone who doesn't use them much, but if you find they are breaking then you might want to upgrade. You can buy a kit for like $7 from HF
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I bought an HF Goodyear black hose "on sale" a few years ago ($10? I think) and it didn't take long before it started bulging (separating inside). Turned out to be made in China for some reason. I ended up buying an orange one from a local hardware store for $30. Still works great after 5 years. :)

Steve
 
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Any fittings you buy get Milton. All others will leak.
As for a hose.. take your thumb nail and rub it across the hose. If it leaves a mark it is a bad hose. Most are bad but this will be a sure test believ it or not. Goodyear makes a good hose. Go to a hose place that makes up hoses for industrial and equipment use. They have good hose and you can have them made any way you want. I use small flex estentions on all my air tools in my cabinet shop. They make using the tools so much easier. As fars as inflators and things I would go with Milton. They cost more but they last forever and you will never be sorry.
 
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I would recommend against the HF fittings altogether. I bought them initially thinking "how could they screw that up". Well, guess what? Almost every one of them leaked within the first year. I replaced most of the with Miltons. I bought 2 air tools from HF thinking I seldom use them, no point in spending the money on IR, etc. One no longer works, so now it's been replaced with IR. The tire inflator...lasted a year and now replaced with a better quality piece. I would get the goodyear hose, but that's where it ends. I'm tired of wasting time and money in HF and their prices are creeping upwards too, so I'm no longer saving as much as I did 5-10 years ago.
 
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I've had decent luck with campbell hausfeld stuff if you're looking on the cheap. I'm slowly replacing things with Milton though and have just upgraded a lot of my stuff to V type fittings. My older M stuff still works with the V quick connect so it's a nice easy transition.
 
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