Air Compressors & Pneumatic Tools

Discussion on criteria for selecting the correct air compressor for home or industrial use. Covers tank size, pressure, pumps, motors and duty-cycles of compressors and reviews air consumption of typical mechanic's air tools. Alright, today on Repairs101 I'm going to address a request from a viewer that I got back in January, and well, it's June right now so I got to say I'm really sorry it took me this long to get to it. Alright , well today on Repairs101 we're at the shipyard, and we're going to talk about air compressors and pneumatic tools. There is a serious compressor. So here's a beautiful air compressor set up. That one's just permanently mounted in the back of this service truck. You can see that it says 30 gallons. So there's an engine mounted air compressor, direct-driven on the side of this fairly new Cummins diesel. Alright now, speaking of air compressors, here's a couple of "tow behind" air compressors made by the SULLAIR company. This bigger one over here delivers a 125 pounds of pressure and 425 cubic feet per minute -- which is quite an impressive amount of air. You'd use that for sandblasting equipment or jackhammers .When you go to choose an air compressor, what's funny is that the first thing that you'll see listed about it is the tank size -- which in reality is about the least important thing to do with the air compressor. What's really important is the pump size and the motor size. And the pump will be rated in cubic feet per minute. If you can't ...