Originally Posted by
Roger Chandler
I have 2 compressors in my shop, but prefer to take my shop vac and vacuum out the chips when doing hollow forms. It keeps much less dust out of the air, and for a guy who has to be careful about breathing wood dust, I feel it is a lot healthier for me to do it that way.
I hear California Air has about as quiet a line of compressors as are available, but they are much more pricey than most compressors of comparable size. You may be wanting both quiet and cheap, but may have to re-evaluate those goals as they are pretty much exclusive of one another...
Two years ago we were at the Oregon Symposium (for what turned out to be one of Vinh's last presentations) at the end I walked out the back door to see what compressor they had him using, because you could barely hear it. California Air Tools . They are spec'd at 70 dB.
Ya, we have one now
Making sawdust mostly, sometimes I get something else, but that is more by accident then design.