Compressor Porn
After a lovely and leisurely breakfast with a hot scientist, (who I get to sleep with!) I ran down to look at pancake compressors at Northern Tool. After about three minutes, the decision was made that I wouldn’t be hit in the head with the ridiculous pricing at Northern and shot over to Lowe’s.
I picked up this little Hitachi twin tank for $169 on sale. With 4cfm @ 100psi, it’s more than enough to run chipping hammers, any nail gun you could imagine, and impact wrenches. Needless to say, if you check around, you’ll see I scored myself a pretty damn good bargain.
Hello all ~ spot on as usual neanderpundit, I bought one of those for my boy and he just loves it. It is perfect for the home hobby shop.
But the one in the picture isn’t a pancake. A pan cake has a wide fat tank and not a cylinder.
Yeah, I know Rusty. I went looking for a pancake, and ended up with this one simply because of price and cfm output at 90psi.
You’re going to be a little bit light for continuous running (of the tools you mentioned), as it’s got a relatively small high pressure reserve, and you really want closer to 6cfm and 120psi rated (gives you more reserve time without running the compressor); but as portable units go, it’s a good one.
I decided on the slightly higher specced (and slightly higher priced, and slightly larger and heavier) dewalt unit of a similar design.
Saw the same unit at Lowe’s a year ago for $209. You got a good deal.
I added a cheap 7-gallon portable tank line with mine, stays in the garage, and it will run an impact gun fairly well. The grinder empties it pretty quick but like you said it will run my finish nailer with easy.
That little sweetheart is a killer-ap! The Garage-Mahal needs one.