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Air Tools

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 2:28 pm
by nellyboyo
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 ?

Re: Air Tools

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:09 pm
by Muppet
3hp 14cfm 50 litre or bigger tank is about yer bestest for home use,
muppet,

Re: Air Tools

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:01 am
by nellyboyo
Cheers for that , 14 cfm ....... I`ll need to spend a bit more tha I`d hoped then :(

Re: Air Tools

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:58 pm
by RICSPEED
smaller compressors will run the tools .. but not for long .. the compressor will run constantly to try and keep pressure up

Re: Air Tools

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:22 am
by nellyboyo
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 ....