Dale, I have had a 175 gallon Campbell Hosford oilless upright compressor for about 15 years. I have it plumbed in to my shop with amflow fittings at 15 foot intervals around the parameter and a couple of overhead pull downs and I have never had a problem with it. I have it connected to a moisture separator and I keep my air guns oiled and everything works well. I don't think that compressor has been shut off in 10 years. I simply bleed off the moisture separator from time-to-time. In your Son's case you will want to spend about as much on a moisture filter as the compressor simply because painting doesn't tolerate any kind of water in the system.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Oil lubricated vs oilless compressors My son does some air brushing. He has been using one of those little diaphragm continuous compressors. you can about feel the ;pulses as the machine works. I thought maybe a compressor might be a welcome Christmas present. Now I have a pretty substantial oilless compressor which I don't work all that hard and I rather appreciate not having to take much care of it. I see though a lot of oil lubricated compressors and about the only thing they seem to claim for them is long life but never with any facts or figures. Do any of you know if and how much better these might be and if any of that oil becomes atomized into the air stream? Now air brushing doesn't require a large volume or very high pressure but I figure a small tank reservoir should deliver more even and predictable pressure. Thanks. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 142251775) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=142251775&m=8f85a5833885&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=142251775&m=8f85a5833885&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=142251775&m=8f85a5833885&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
