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“Need” one for finishing nails, airing-up low tires, soccer balls, etc…
School me!
Thanks.
By portable are you looking for something you can pickup and carry like a hot dog or pancake compressor or a larger wheeled unit?
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The Rolair JC10 or Air buddy would be perfect actually for what your doing. Plus they are really quiet compressors non of that bLAAAAAAAAAAAA noise
Makita mac700.
Perfect for what you’re talking about
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Roland JC10
I’m partial to the Rolair Bull. I’m always a fan of oil lube compressors.
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You should be able to get an air filter/ silencer for the intake. I know grainger carries Solberg, but I couldn’t tell you who the best brand is. Should help you out some. We had some on a couple compressors in the shop.PROTOOLNUT wrote:
Does anyone know how I can quiet my air compressor? I have the harbor freight 21 gallon air compressor which is their best seller cause its a good unit, I like it. The only problem is, the majority of the noise is coming from the intake port. I tried to stick some more air filtration foam into the air filter housing but that hasn’t made much of a difference. Is there some kind of air filter/muffler that I can put on that dam thing to make it quieter? I can’t run it without wearing hearing protection its so loud. lol
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Yeah man that can get old really quick when you are working around a compressor that loud all day.
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If you’re just wanting to spend lots of money, you could always go with the Ryobi One+ Angled Finish Nailer ($269) and the Ryobi One+ portable inflator ($40) a couple of One+ batteries ($100) and a charger ($45). So for a mere $550, you can set yourself up for cordless nailing, take your inflator out into the world without a plug and have a couple of extra batteries to keep it all going.
Psh, who needs a compressor with all that noise 😀
It all depends on how much you want to spend. You could go as low as $40 with Harbor Freight’s 3 gallon pancake which would do the job. I have the Porter Cable 6 gallon pancake with a 0.8 HP motor that you can find on sale for about $100. It fills up fast and can run a finish nailer all day long but it is loud! I mean loud! I know there are other higher priced options but it sounds like you could get by with something under $100.
That little Rolair compressor is impressive. I have my Porter Cable in the garage and when that thing kicks on it startles my kiddos in the living room! Just about shakes the whole house.
For my small portable compressor I have a porter cable pancake compressor. I got it at hd years ago with two guns. It has seen some abuse, and still works perfectly
PaulE wrote:
For my small portable compressor I have a porter cable pancake compressor. I got it at hd years ago with two guns. It has seen some abuse, and still works perfectly
Same here Paul, and for all the abuse I have given it should have been dead years ago. It’s a good little compressor, it’s only downside is that it’s a bit noisy.