"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:


"Bob Minchin" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
Anyone got any experience of this item ? It was their 'deal of the
week'
a couple of weeks back, I think. I have a use for such an animal at the
moment, and at £79.99 I figured it was worth a punt, even if you have
got to add a bit of air hose to it. Anyways, I got down to my local
Aldi
this afternoon, and battled my way through the zombies that wander
aimlessly about the place with their trollies full of no-name baked
beans, and found four of the compressors on display. They looked
perfectly fine - certainly no worse than those I've seen offered for
£120+ at B&Q - and were suitably heavy, so I dragged one down to the
front, and stood in line at a till for about 10 minutes, whilst more
zombies tried to empty and repack their trollies. I finally got to the
halfwit behind the till, who scanned my box, and announced "£79.99
please mate" I shoved my card in the slot and waited. Then he says
"Oh -
we don't take credit cards ..." "What ?!!" said I "We don't..." "Yes,
yes. I heard what you said. Where doesn't take credit cards ?" "Well,
we
don't, mate ..."

So I glared at him, tore my card out of the slot, and walked out,
leaving the heavy box in the middle of the floor. Back out in the car
park, my daughter, who was with me, told me that we could have used one
of her debit cards instead, but by then, we would have looked pretty
stupid going back in :-\

Anyway, later tonight, she rang me and said that she and her husband
had
popped into a different branch near where they live, and picked me one
up, bless 'em !

So I haven't yet got to see it 'in the flesh' and have a play. I
suppose
that for that money, it's not going to be the best quality, but that
said, I bought a garden shredder from B&Q the other day, and went for
the cheapest one that they did - again about eighty quid. It had the
same capacity as all the dearer ones, and the same power rating motor,
and it works just fine, and will be perfectly adequate for the limited
service that I need it for. I'm hoping the same will be true of the
compressor, unless anyone knows different ... ?

Arfa

I got mine when they were about £50 a few years back.
It is very noisy but typical of the breed. The pressure difference
between cut off and cut back in is too great for my nail gun so as the
pressure drops the nails don't fire all the way in.
I have a round-2-it action to try and adjust this.
One of the quick release connectors has just developed a leak in the
last week or so. The body and seat is plated steel, so the water
vapour has started to rust. Easily replaced by a brass one.

Still good value for the money though.

Most people who have a compressor are likely to be handy types who can
live with these little issues.

Bob

Yeah, thanks Bob. That pretty much confirms what I felt was going to be
the case. Nail gun is something I have in mind for the future, as well
as spray, but duty will be light in any of those fields. The current
need I have is for a short blast of compressed air to blow crud out of
some items that are impractically difficult to strip for this, whilst
being serviced. Other than that, it's one of those 'nice to have' items
to put in the garage, for that sort of money. As you say, I'm a
practical person both professionally and 'handy-wise', so I can indeed
live with any minor shortcomings. Come to think of it, I actually have a
mate in the air business - although he specialises in producing a lack
of it, rather than an excess (!) but even so, I guess he will know where
to get replacement / better fittings, if it should ultimately need any.

Arfa
I think you will have to add water and oil removal traps before using this
for paint spraying and the compressor capacity might be a bit low for
painting any significant area with out breaks.
Fitting a second receiver (big calor gas bottle?) will give you more
spray/nailing time before it needs to pump up again but that will take
longer.
As a blow gun and general purpose source of air it is fine but you might
be better off with a bigger compressor (second hand perhaps) for serious
use.

Bob

I was thinking about water and oil removal, but the only sort of spraying
that I was considering at this point in time, was a rather large fence that
runs down either side of my back garden, and I'm not going to get too
bothered about a bit of oil getting into Wickes' sprayable garden fence
preserver ... :-)

Arfa