It’s late at night or a weekend and you’re knee deep in a project ready to call in some pneumatic power to help you speed up your progress and the air compressor starts acting up! What can you do?! You can either give up and call in a professional; or maybe diagnosis and fix the issue yourself like a true Eastwood Guy or Gal! We decided to put together a simple trouble shooting guide for common reciprocating air compressors to help you get to the bottom of your problems.
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Can You Put your Air Compressor Outside?
Making noise is part of working in your garage, but we always want to do what we can to limit the noise we HAVE to hear. One of the things we can do to limit the noise in your shop is choosing a good place to put your air compressor […]
Top Air Tools Needed For Auto Body Work
Air tools have made our lives easier and can make a lot of jobs go quicker. Auto Body work can be a slow process and definitely takes time and patience. We decided to put together our must-have list of air tools you should have in your tool box when working on body work on a vehicle.
How to Clean Air Tools
Just like your car you need to keep your tools clean and maintained. Hand tools can be easy to keep up with as they just take a wipe down and maybe an occasional drop of oil here and there. Your air tools get used hard and performance can decrease with […]
How to Choose The Correct Type of Compressed Air Line For Your Shop
When setting up your shop air the second most important thing to what compressor you pick is what type and size of air line that you choose to plumb your shop with. If the lines feeding your tools aren’t adequately sized and the correct material for you it could decrease the performance of your air tools or cause trouble down the line. Below we discuss the different types of materials and when they may be good to use in your shop air system.
What is an Inline Air Compressor Filter?
Clean compressed air is key in the health of your pneumatic tools and they can be the final barrier before a paint gun to save that paint job. We ALWAYS suggest to use one inline when painting or spraying powder.
How to Reduce Moisture in Your Air Compressor Lines
Using Pneumatic pressure to operate tools is an absolute must in your garage, but most of these tools DO NOT like excessive moisture mixed into the air. Moisture in the air lines can cause rust inside of the air lines or the tools. Excessive moisture in your air lines can cause a decrease in performance as well as premature failure of the pneumatic tool. If you’re using a paint gun it can also allow the moisture to creep into the paint gun and contaminate your paint job. We decided to put together a list of the reasons and corrections to cut down the moisture in your air lines.
Can Air Compressor Tanks Be Connected Together?
One question we get from customers is if they can hook their air tanks together in tandem to get more air output from their shop. Often times this is when a person has a small air compressor in their garage and want to get a larger reservoir of air before their compressor runs. In theory the idea could work where you could get twice as much air to use before you have to wait on your compressor to refill, but it isn’t always the magic answer. We decided to cover the details below.
Can I use an Air Compressor to Clean?
Air compressors are most commonly used to run pneumatic tools and to put air into an object like a car or motorcycle/bicycle tire, sports ball, kids toys, etc. We often get questions about using the air pressure in a shop compressor for cleaning or blowing something out. Care must be […]