04-19-2018, 01:16 AM
(04-19-2018, 12:36 AM)baxtercat_imp Wrote: thanks, decarmine. that IS cheap. if you use a pancake or tank type compressor, how do you determine the proper size or capacity for tire inflating duty? they seem to be used for nail guns and such.
I bought the smallest, cheapest they had for my garage. I had a bigger, better one in my shop -- about 150 feet from my house -- and got tired of wheeling it back and forth, so this one was dedicated to the garage. I have since bought a 60-gallon one for the shop and moved the one from the shop into the garage. I then gave the pancake one to my son...
I have only ever used the HF one for tire inflation -- have no idea how it would work for nail guns, etc. I used it for motorcycles and cars tires.
Only down side is it took a relatively long time -- maybe two or three minutes -- to fully reach the 100 PSI maximum. But once at full pressure, it filled the tires as quickly as my larger compressors. Sometimes, though, if I were filling my *truck* tires, it would "run out of air" and need to re-fill before continuing. Never happened with cycles...