Mark Kauder
06-05-2003, 8:44 PM
First Gloat: I have been looking for an air compressor for my little shop. Today, on one of my weekly Pawn Shop tours, I found a nearly new Devilbuss IRF-420-2 4HP 20 Gal Air Compressor for $120. Only thing wrong with it, is the drain valve on the bottom of the tank had been sheared off (in the closed position). That is a $3 part.
AND it came with 150ft of hose!! I took the hose off for now, and put on a 25ft section that I already had.
Second Gloat: I noticed a new 6 Gal Shop vac on a neighbors garbage pile Monday morning. I stopped and picked it up, figuring if it was in fact broken, I could use the Hose. I took it home, plugged it in and when I turned it on, it just hummed. I looked inside, and noticed that it had been used to vac up water/mud. Oh well. During the course of that evening, I accidentally knocked the ShopVac off my bench, and it hit the floor pretty hard. For some reason when I picked it up, I decided to try turning it on again, and IT WORKED. I hosed it out, and it is now my wife's craftroom vac.
My question: for around the house maintainance operations I might occasionally use the 150ft of hose. Is there such a thing as "line Loss", pressure-wise, when using a long line.
Mark
AND it came with 150ft of hose!! I took the hose off for now, and put on a 25ft section that I already had.
Second Gloat: I noticed a new 6 Gal Shop vac on a neighbors garbage pile Monday morning. I stopped and picked it up, figuring if it was in fact broken, I could use the Hose. I took it home, plugged it in and when I turned it on, it just hummed. I looked inside, and noticed that it had been used to vac up water/mud. Oh well. During the course of that evening, I accidentally knocked the ShopVac off my bench, and it hit the floor pretty hard. For some reason when I picked it up, I decided to try turning it on again, and IT WORKED. I hosed it out, and it is now my wife's craftroom vac.
My question: for around the house maintainance operations I might occasionally use the 150ft of hose. Is there such a thing as "line Loss", pressure-wise, when using a long line.
Mark