Nice looking compressor. Is it an Ingersol Rand?
I have a 60 gallon sanborn that was free. I just had to haul it home from a building I was working on. A week or so ago, I went through and fixed all the air leaks in my system. My brother installed it quite a while back. Instead of hard line, he used cheap pvc air hose. The little one car garage wasn't really worthy of hard pipe. I also replaced the hose on my 50' retractable reel with Flexeel 1/4" USA made poly hose. It is more flexible than some extension cords. I have used it for a long time and I also used their coil hoses in our grooming equipment repair shop.
I have been working on taking apart the engine bay of my 79 pickup and preping it for paint. The 60 gallon compressor is awesome, especially for the DA sander. I have the Ingersol Rand 3/8" composite air ratchet, 1/2" 900 ft lbs in reverse composite impact and the 1/4" composite right angle die grinder. I don't use the ratchet a lot, but it is really handy. My uncle is a pro mechanic and he uses the snot out of IR and snapon 1/4" impacts.
The craftsman might turn out to be good air tools. I would say that it probably beats the CH stuff. I just bought a Husky/homedepot 3/8" air water separator. It seems to work well and is a newer design. My old one would no longer seal and I even tried to replace the o ring in it. I later saw the harbor freight separators, but I don't know how good they are. They are pretty basic, so there isn't much to go wrong with them.
I will be using my big compressor to spray my engine bay. I am thinking semigloss or satin black. I also need to make sure the air is nice and dry. I have used the throw away filters before, but I think I may run a very fine separator before the hose to the gun as well. They come in different mesh sizes.
There is 10 miles of space between my engine and core support.............literally. The engine guy should be getting the new roller cam put in to the freshened up engine, this week.
What engine and what size cam, Terry?
