Help? dentist/detail tool

[Peter Blair]

Has anyone come up with a method to attach this style high speed dentist/detail tool to a compressor? The back end is threaded I suppose to attach some sort of hose but I can't seem to find what part I need.
I know which of the four inlets I need to use and have a plastic hose that will slip over the post but even with low pressure (25lb) the hose just won't stay on? This type is less than $50.00 on Amazon. Quite a bit different than the cost of the straight type. I don't suppose it is anywhere as good as it does require some lubrication and I don't expect the turbine to last but to learn on it might be a really good idea.
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[Justin Stephen]

The piercing kits that Brian McEvoy over at One Good Turn sells are based on dentist tools as I recall. His kits are pricey but you might get some ideas on how his system works by looking at the pictures on his site:

http://www.onegoodturn.ca/store/index.php?route=product/category&path=65_64

[Peter Blair]

Thanks Justin. I'll take a look.

[Mike Stephens]

Captn Eddie has a video on the you tubes explaining how to hook it up.

[Peter Blair]

Thanks Mike.
Any idea what the video was called? He has so many I can't find it.

[Bill Blasic]

Peter you can find what you need on Ebay.

[Michelle Rich]

pete: this does not help, but I bought mine from Brian, just so I didn't have to deal with this issue. I live so far off the grid and in the wilderness, they have never seen compressors :-) and the hardware store has lanterns. :-)

[Marty Tippin]

Thanks Mike.
Any idea what the video was called? He has so many I can't find it.

This is probably what you're looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy87r3RARfk

[Peter Blair]

Bill, I have searched and searched Ebay and Amazon and can't seem to find the item. Are you suggesting that I continue to search to find the 4 part hose with the threaded connection and then remove 3 of the lines and find a way to join the other to my compressor?
My next problem would be do you have a suggestion as to how to make a splitter or quick change that would allow me to go from my straight bit tool to the new angled one? Any ideas there?

Hey Michelle. The high speed tool that I got off Ebay cost me less than 1/10 of the cost of the oilless one I already have. Replacement turbines are about 1/5 the cost and it is my understanding that the ability to change may help me pierce longer. I have some sort of condition that for some reason cause a lot and I mean a lot of finger and arm cramps . . . I guess if you live THAT far off the grid (grin) you are lucky to not have to go and start the water wheel each morning just to power your lathe.

[Michelle Rich]

wish I had a water wheel :-) use wind & solar..grey days with no wind are bummers :-)

[John Altberg]

Marty,

That video DOES cover the connection issue. Anyone have any guidance as to what kind of regulator and switch goes between the handpiece and the compressor on the cheap?

[Peter Blair]

Thanks Marty, I'll give Captain Eddy's idea a try.

[Peter Blair]

Hi John. In the video Capt Eddy suggests you can get what you need at Home Depot. I found it really nice to have the switch and pressure regulator right on my carving bench. I did spring for the $100.00 plus item from Tree way and it works perfectly. I did get a really nice switch and pressure regulator from Lee Valley a few years ago to operate a vacuum clamp but not sure if they still sell them.

[John Altberg]

Pete,

Thanks. I did some poking around on the HD website and found some combo regulator/filter arrays for less than $30. Probably need to add some sort of ball valve and should work OK. I feel one of those "build-it-in-the-aisle" trips coming on!

John

[Michael Gibson]

You can buy all the parts you need at Home depot, or you can go to Harbor freight and the regulator is $7 , $10 and an expensive one for $12. You just need a reducer for the small drill hose found in the plumbing section HD and then a fitting which joins that to make a quick connect to your compressor hose found in the air tool section, just a couple of dollars each.

[Peter Blair]

Thanks Michael. I am heading there tomorrow cause the parts I have on hand don't seem to work the way Eddy's do. I really want a VERY flexible hose, hopefully similar to the one that came with my NSK pen style. I am thinking that I don't want to be changing tools on and off the hose for fear of getting dust or grit into an unattached hose and cause heck with the turbines. I am still doing my piercings in my shop where dust is everywhere!

[Dan Hunkele]

For a flexible hose you might look into a replacement hose for an air brush. Hobby stores should carry them.

[Michael Gibson]

The hose l got around the corner at my local hardware store, on the receipt it reads gas line, was yellow and nice and flexible. If you still are having trouble after you have been shopping, l can take some photos and read the receipt closer. Michael

[Peter Blair]

My mother in her wisdom used to repeat the old saw "there is no point in beating a dead horse" or something like that I guess even then I wasn't really a good listener!
Anyway, I have listened to all the good advise including watching Capt'n Eddys video and seem unable to get my new inexpensive tool connected to my air compressor. Eddy's video is very good but I can't just walk down the block to an Ace store, I don't seem to have the same supply tube/hose as he has and as a result am unable to find correct size of compression fitting. Hopefully I have solved the problem by purchasing a 4 hole connecter from Ebay. This connection piece cost about $12.00 including shipping to US.
I shall update my success as soon as it arrives.
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