Air Tools

busterb · 04-07-2006, 07:15 PM

I broke down and got a compresser from Sears. Not sure about the kind of hose to buy? Goodyear, rubber or the blue vinyl. I think for the few tools I need can get the junk at Harbor store in Jackson and if breaks, just put in trash. I can borrow a paint rig, but might be junk. I understand about leaving rubber and plastic in the sun. Only tools I need at this time are a needle gun and chisel, something to remove old mortor from blocks.

Bullitt · 04-07-2006, 07:59 PM

The main thing you should pay attention to is the PSI rating on the hoses compared to what the compressor puts out at max.

busterb · 04-07-2006, 09:06 PM

Yep. Thanks I forgot about that little fact.

wolf · 04-08-2006, 01:44 AM

Darn, you had to go and tell him. That could have been an amusing story in a Three Stooges Engineering kind of way.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-08-2006, 02:04 AM

I doubt if he's running over 100 psi..... most any hose will handle that.

Flexibility is helpful, some of the plastic hoses are like pipe when you try to coil them.

Those plastic hoses that are made like a 4 to 6 inch diameter coil spring, look like a good idea...... but they get damaged easily and are only about a quarter inch I.D., which is too small for some tools.

If you are going to do any welding around them, rubber hoses stand up better.

04-07-2006, 07:15 PM	#1
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Air Tools I broke down and got a compresser from Sears. Not sure about the kind of hose to buy? Goodyear, rubber or the blue vinyl. I think for the few tools I need can get the junk at Harbor store in Jackson and if breaks, just put in trash. I can borrow a paint rig, but might be junk. I understand about leaving rubber and plastic in the sun. Only tools I need at this time are a needle gun and chisel, something to remove old mortor from blocks. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

04-07-2006, 07:59 PM	#2
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	The main thing you should pay attention to is the PSI rating on the hoses compared to what the compressor puts out at max. __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

04-07-2006, 09:06 PM	#3
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Yep. Thanks I forgot about that little fact. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

04-08-2006, 01:44 AM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Darn, you had to go and tell him. That could have been an amusing story in a Three Stooges Engineering kind of way. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

04-08-2006, 02:04 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I doubt if he's running over 100 psi..... most any hose will handle that. Flexibility is helpful, some of the plastic hoses are like pipe when you try to coil them. Those plastic hoses that are made like a 4 to 6 inch diameter coil spring, look like a good idea...... but they get damaged easily and are only about a quarter inch I.D., which is too small for some tools. If you are going to do any welding around them, rubber hoses stand up better. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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