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Well I didn’t win the ultimate tool bag giveaway, so I’ll have to buy my own compressor. I have my eye on the Makita Mac2400 $299 Home Depot with free shipping.
Ingersoll Rand has a 4-Gal. Portable Twin Tank Electric Air Compressor for the same price. I’m still about $50 short so I have time to mull it over.
Which do you guys prefer/ have experience with?
I’d stay away from IR’s small compressors. I was looking at a 5 HP 60 gal. @ Tractor Supply and found out they feature Chinese motors and Indian built pumps and had lots of complaints if pump failures. Believe it or not the Harbor Freight model featured a Century motor and Italian pump. Must better quality than the IR I looked at. IR’s industrial compressors are top notch, but their small compressors are cheap shit with a big name stuck on them.
I can’t swear the model you’re looking at is the same way, but I’d do my homework first.
IR pumps are actually top notch the problem is they use a cheap motor and try to run the pump too fast to get their great CFM numbers, this causes the motors to fail way to often.
It’s kinda ironic that last night after I read this I logged onto another forum that focuses primarily on vintage hand tools and saw a guy bitching that his brand new IR (the one I looked at from Tractor Supply) had leaks in the tank from the factory. I’ve always had great luck with IR stuff, but I hate seeing a quality company lend their name to junk.
I have two of the makitas in my shop and I think they’re great. No complaints whatsoever