Air compressors (refers: Aldi)

I guessed as much but beggars etc ..

I can't say the tool itself was that noisy as such and it also worked
pretty well.

Nice. My idea was to test the concept of these tools via the cheapos
then buy decent ones as / when / if it turns out I couldn't live
without said.

Today daughter was working on her MZ (taking off the small / broken
screen, replacing the Kawasaki master cylinder with a genuine one) and
I nearly fired up the compressor to try the air wrench but remembered
I still need to get the PCL connectors.

Cheers, T i m

 

<Mac user nods approvingly>

 

It's funny, when you try it to see how loud it is you think "hmm,
that's not too bad" ... then you try to talk to yer mate when it's
running.

I intend to try to put mine in a sort of ventilated acoustic box in
the hope it will at least take the edge off the noise.

T i m

 

Hehe

<Mac Mini running XP replies>

No, to do that properly I generally keep back a few air-bombs (is this
now back on topic?) and coincidentally found a floppy bay blanking
panel in the garden this afternoon when moving the bikes about. ;-)

To blow the crap out of a caravan I'm led to believe 1oz 12G 6's are
pretty effective (and a good few boxes at that). <weg>

T i m

 

I've got a raft of cheap air tools from Machine Mart (same stuff as Aldi
arre flogging I'd guess) and none of them have failed spectacularly. Some
have slowly died (a flat bed sander being one) but that was a tool I bought
for a specific job and it did that, so anything else was a bnus. A bonus
that lasted ~5 years.

Unbelievable thing it is. It doesn't even require a gloved hand to soak up
vibes or protect from icy wind.

Not as noisy as the air chisel, but still annoyingly loud when compared to
our Snap-on stuff. (D/A, Palm Sander, 3/8 Drill, air ratchets).

The cheapo's aren't *that* bad, but the higher quality ones make a
difference if you're using them regularly. For home use, there's no way I'd
pay 120 quid for a mini D/Asander, but at the bodyshop, I would. Our "old"
Snap-on normal sized D/A was ~180 quid IIRC, but it's been worth every
penny. My Clarke home used D/A cost pennies (and not many of them) and it
does the job, but not as quickly or as cleanly (the eccentric movement it
too large on the cheap one), so I have to handball a job for the last bit
before painting.

Speaking of which, how's this for ridiculous. I can by any number of air
tools/spray guns from Machine Mart which are advertised as "HLVP" (High
Volume Low Pressure) but they don't fucking sell HVLP connectors, just
normal PCL's which are too restrictive for true HVLP operation. They had NO
fucking idea what I was talking about when I asked for them. Back to Sealey
for those things.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

SAME AS THE ONE I'VE GOT AT HOME THEN. Noisly fucking things


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Along with the edge off the top of the pistns when it overheats. IOW, don't
do it. Well not unless you can get good airflow through the fan and
remember, the exit for the air needs to be roughly 3 times the inlet to
account for expansion.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

When I apprenticed, I bought a 1/2" drive rattle gun and a 3/8" air
ratchet.

I used the air impact wrench every day, but the air ratchet sat
gathering dust.

Really, what's the point of them ?

P.

 

snip>

The impact tool will **** up the fasteners in a much shorter space of
time than the normal air ratchet. It doesn't matter if they're not
your fasteners but when they are the difference becomes important.

 

Same here really. I did buy a ~100000 piece socket set the other day
off the market for a fiver and both of the ratchet wrenches were crap
(as expected). However that's a very large box of spacers and bench
press mandrels for the money. ;-)

Yup, I started on that principle as a lad working on my mopeds etc.
Buy the flywheel puller rather than put the bike in for repair so had
it for the next time and probably saved money on the job at the same
time (even if there wasn't ever an official 'next time' it could
often be adapted and used for other things). Similar buying a decent
circular saw and full 8x4 sheets of chipboard rather than loft_hatch
sized floor boards when I bought this place. Job done, free saw and
tools were much more expensive then.

I notice some of the cheaper tools have such rubber sleeves and notes
about which way the exhaust air blows (ie, not up yer sleeve or in
your face). ;-)

And probably to be expected (design / price etc). I think my mate
(normally a Snap-On zone) has a Blue Point die grinder that does
indeed feel 'better' than my £10 ebay jobby.

Whilst I don't earn my living form such these days on a similar vein I
treated myself to a Wi-Spy thingy that allows you to look at the WiFi
spectrum to check for rogue transmissions etc. £100 well spent to be
able to *see* exactly going on out there and quickly resolve the
otherwise un resolvable. It's funny, many people will struggle with
problematic WiFi networks and say they can't justify buying such a
gadget yet will spend the same or more on something trivial that
doesn't actually improve their lives one iota?

http://www.metageek.net/

Hmm, whilst I understand your enquiry I admit I wouldn't have
consciously considered the coupler that way (as a potential air-flow
restriction), well until now that is. And would the coupler have as
big an impact on the flow rate as any filters / oilers / regs / hoses
etc? What sort of HV gear are we talking about especially?

I think I went with PCL because that's what a couple of mates had and
they in turn had settled on them as being the most reliable / hard
wearing out of the others they have tried. I think my garage owning
mate uses a connector supplied through Snap-On.

What is the connector usually supplied with these cheap air tools
would you know please?

Cheers, T i m

 

Erm, I'm not sure TBH but it's one of those things you do (I did) when
you see something so cheap (compared to the price they have been for
many years say) you feel you would be mad not to buy one.

Having said that I've seen my mate in the garage using his rattle gun
many many times from everyday (cage) wheel removal to unshiftable
crank nuts (he even bought a more powerful jobby for the latter) and
it does seem to work more often than not. However as with all this
stuff you probably have to know when you should and shouldn't use
them.

As for the air ratchet ... undoing a whole bunch of nuts / bolts. of
the right size (for that sort of tool) maybe? Or doing similar up
*once* you have started them properly with yer fingers and know the
threads are good?

Cheers, T i m

p.s. Tha Aldi air wrench is the only one of the three air tools where
it won't go back in it's case once you have fitted the airline
connector to it (well, not without some tweaking with a burr in the
die grinder). ;-)

 

No, they're slow, noisy, cumbersome and shit for working on engines.

HTH

Paul.

 

Mine's a triple[1].
Oil-free ex-dental lab jobby.
Still no idea about how to get the best out of it


[1]I presume you're talking about the pistons stuffing air
into the tank.

--
Jeweller
R100RT
Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo,
R80/7, R100RT (green!)
www.davidhowardjeweller.co.uk

 

<puts ratchet spanner back in it's case>
Maybe ours will appear on Antiques Roadshow in 50 years, highly valued
as they have never been used and still in their boxes? ;-)

T i m

 

Ooooo ...

Hmm, they tended to use the Bambi pumps (which weren't oil free
AFAIK).

You won't be able to, sell it to me and cut yer losses. ;-)

Yup. Is yours like this (bottom picture).

http://www.bambi-air.co.uk/applications/medical-dental-general.html

If it was I was watching one on eBay a while back but 1) It was *way*
Up Norf (and collect only) and 2) ended up a bit rich for me.

I now have one of those pumps on a 24l Wolf receiver (sort of
Wolfenstine's compressor) and it works very well. There aren't many
compressors you can run in the room next to the one she's watching TV
in and her not hear it running at all. ;-)

T i m

p.s. If it's not the design in the picture you can keep the noisy
bastard thing.

 

Heh, I gave my original one away (or swapped it for something else)
and i've managed to acquire another one of the cursed things.

Anyone want one ?

Paul.

 

It's a noisy bastard thing from Germany.

--
Jeweller
R100RT
Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo,
R80/7, R100RT (green!)
www.davidhowardjeweller.co.uk

 

Yes please!
I'm beginning to acquire these accessories.
Then I'll learn how to use them.

The sand-blaster comes first.

--
Jeweller
R100RT
Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo,
R80/7, R100RT (green!)
www.davidhowardjeweller.co.uk

 

Ah, meh ... ;-)

T i m

 

Is it the 3/8" version, if so I might like to play?

Cheers, T i m