No more BRAAAAPPPPP!!!! *

[Farside]

From this...

To this...

Oops. Spot the deliberate mistake...

* But not quite FLUBBALUBBALUBBA.
More a kind of RROOOOMMMMMGGAAAAA.

 

[frank horton]

nice one .........Frank..........christmas come earky ?????

 

[pedrobedro]

No more BRAAAAPPPPP!!!! *

I thought you'd found a cure for flatulence !

 

[Farside]

Interestingly, I found an answer to a question that's often asked and I already knew the answer to, but here it is in black and white in the maker's own words...

Oil.

TYPE OF OIL ......................... HOURS OF DUTY

FIAC Synthetic...............................500

Other Synthetic
at 5W50
(AGIP Sint 2000,
BP Visco 5000,
Esso Ultron,
Mobil 1,
NLS Dimension S,
NUOVA STILMOIL,
Arrow)..........................................400

Mineral Multigrade
at 15W40......................................100

There you go - straight from the horse's mouth.
Turns out I've got plenty of suitable oil and no need to go out and pay through the nose for it.
I would have just used what I had anyway (Lidl's finest 5W40 synth) and hang the consequences, as
I was sure it was adequate.
FIAC say to change the factory oil within the first 100 hours, which strikes me as a bit long for a break-in change. I'll probably do it at around 40 or so.
Bought a nifty little hours-run meter to do away with guess work, as the comp will be used in an entirely random manner and it would be easy to over or under-estimate the times.

 

[Turbo]

Nice purchase, you will not regret it, so much easier on the ears as well. I've recently gone from 2 25l direct drive compressors to a single 200l belt drive unit & it's great being able to use air tools without worrying about running out of air!

Bought a nifty little hours-run meter

Be interested to know where you bought it & how much, I was considering fitting one myself. I used to change the oil on the old pumps annually but an hour meter would be so much better.

 

[Farside]

Nice purchase, you will not regret it, so much easier on the ears as well. I've recently gone from 2 25l direct drive compressors to a single 200l belt drive unit & it's great being able to use air tools without worrying about running out of air!

I'll keep the old one as a fall-back, and if I have to, I can plumb it in tandem, but I'm not doing any blasting so don't need that for now.

Be interested to know where you bought it & how much, I was considering fitting one myself. I used to change the oil on the old pumps annually but an hour meter would be so much better.

This one... I'll put it on a box on the wall, fed from the motor supply, and away from vibration.
I'd initially thought of a vibration hours-run meter, but don't have any great faith the cheap ones won't simply fall apart by the very thing they're using to trigger.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC-100-25...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

 

[fizzy]

Nice one!
I can't stand direct drive like that - too noisy!

 

[bricol]

I've used an identical Wolf for years, but even that got to feel noisy. Dropped on a low hours Hydrovane this year, so that's now installed under the house - can't be heard from boundary.

The air gun I'm using on the other end of the hose of course . . . ;-)

 

[Farside]

I've used an identical Wolf for years, but even that got to feel noisy. Dropped on a low hours Hydrovane this year, so that's now installed under the house - can't be heard from boundary.

The air gun I'm using on the other end of the hose of course . . . ;-)

I suppose that's the thing - it's all relative. I know this isn't silent by any means, but it's probably half the noise of the other one. I can stand it going on and off in the same space without it bugging me, unlike the other one. Of course, when I get fed up with it I can banish it to the outer workshop, where it can live with the spiders.