Louis Brandt
05-09-2009, 2:37 PM
Hello,
I know that I’ve asked this question before in a similar fashion, but that was before I bought a nail gun for it, so please forgive me for asking it again in a slight variation.
I have purchased a 3 gallon, 1 HP Sears oil-lubed compressor, model 15310, and the specs on it show that it can deliver 2.4 cfm at 90 psi. I have not yet used this compressor.
I have also purchased a Porter-Cable FN250C 16 gauge finish nailer. When I opened the manual for the nailer and looked at the compressor requirements page, it seems to indicate that it needs much higher cfm rates than 2.4. In fact, the lowest rate that it even mentions is 3.2, and it goes up from there.
I haven’t fired up this compressor yet, because I want to make sure that it’s ok for this nail gun. I deliberately didn’t buy the Porter-Cable pancake compressor that I could have bought with this nail gun, but even that compressor didn’t show any higher cfm rates that the Sears one that I bought, so maybe the manual that I’m looking at is misleading.
So, to sum up my question before I fire up this compressor and won’t be able to return it, will 2.4 cfm at 90 psi drive this nail gun?
Thanks again,
Louis
I know that I’ve asked this question before in a similar fashion, but that was before I bought a nail gun for it, so please forgive me for asking it again in a slight variation.
I have purchased a 3 gallon, 1 HP Sears oil-lubed compressor, model 15310, and the specs on it show that it can deliver 2.4 cfm at 90 psi. I have not yet used this compressor.
I have also purchased a Porter-Cable FN250C 16 gauge finish nailer. When I opened the manual for the nailer and looked at the compressor requirements page, it seems to indicate that it needs much higher cfm rates than 2.4. In fact, the lowest rate that it even mentions is 3.2, and it goes up from there.
I haven’t fired up this compressor yet, because I want to make sure that it’s ok for this nail gun. I deliberately didn’t buy the Porter-Cable pancake compressor that I could have bought with this nail gun, but even that compressor didn’t show any higher cfm rates that the Sears one that I bought, so maybe the manual that I’m looking at is misleading.
So, to sum up my question before I fire up this compressor and won’t be able to return it, will 2.4 cfm at 90 psi drive this nail gun?
Thanks again,
Louis