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nellyboyo
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Hiya , picked up a few air tools the other day cheap, grinder, drills, die grinder etc . Took them home and my compressor packed up terminally just as I was running it up to test them all.
Looking at a new one but whats the average CFM (cubic feet min ??) needed to use them .
Don`t have much experience of air tools outside of work, where theres an industrial ring main at 8 barg so that gives plenty of flow.
Anybody use some ?
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3hp 14cfm 50 litre or bigger tank is about yer bestest for home use,
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C’est la vie
nellyboyo
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Cheers for that , 14 cfm ....... I`ll need to spend a bit more tha I`d hoped then :(
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smaller compressors will run the tools .. but not for long .. the compressor will run constantly to try and keep pressure up
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nellyboyo
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I was thinking of piping the old reservoir from the knackered comp up in parallel so it would help deliver the volume . I won`t be using them loads , I`m just a serial tool addict who hates asking for help ....
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