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a13x



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Garage air compressor - which one
Guys,

Im looking for a simple to use, nothing too fancy air compressor which will be bought to Dinitrol the car and then for any other general use.

Theres a few sites that are offering a SIP 6296 for around £110 complete with a basic air kit. Any of the more knowledgeable folk offer any advice?

Thanks
Post #225509 8th Apr 2013 7:18pm
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Laurie



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Wait for Lidl or Aldi.
Both their £100 compressors are excellent. 
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Glynparry25



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Laurie wrote:
Wait for Lidl or Aldi.
Both their £100 compressors are excellent.


+1, Dad has ad on for about 3 years of abuse and still going strong.

Glyn Dog Sheep
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Alex1976



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I got a Clarke one from Machine Mart and paid about £140 on one of their VAT free days. It is ok, but not overly impressed with build quality.

The other issue I find is that unless you go for a really good sized one then they just don not produce the volume of air you need for certain jobs, although for just a but od Dinitrol application you don't need anything too big. If you lan to use air tools and other things in the future then invest in something a decent size now.
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party monkey



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I've had this Wolf one for around 5 years now and it's been fine. I do wonder if the Lidl/Aldi ones are in fact made by the same crowd that make them for Wolf as they do look remarkably similar from memory.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Apache-7-4cfm...compressor

I have some sympathy with Alex1976's view.... I wonder if I should have gone for one with a greater air capacity as my main use is creosoting (or modern pansy equivilent) a fair old amount of fencing. Can normally work around this though as the regular top ups to the spray gun gives the unit a chance to recover. Jon - 110 td5 [sold]. Currently Defenderless.
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