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Posted: 4/12/2008 12:16:33 PM EDT
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can anyone reccomend a small sized air compressor, to clean weapons with? i need it to be portable and not to big. thnaks |
I’ll really have to take a look at those. It’s not often I use air when cleaning weapons, so I get by with the canned air. But I could use a compressor for other things around the house. I have a rollaway full of aircraft sheet metal tools I could be using! And ........Frau Quib has an obsession with properly inflated tires on her Jetta! |
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When getting an air compressor for cleaning guns, make sure you get one that has at least a small tank on it. I have used a tankless air compressor and while it worked fine at the sart, with a little use tended to condense moisture from the air (not a good thing to spray a fine water mist on the parts you are cleaning) worst than the small tank type compressors due to the bypass valve on the tankless compressor. Ended up adding a tank, which helped a lot (but no auto shut off, so all manual), which took care of the problem. Note a centrifugal moisture separator did not help enough until the tank was added. For the same $100 could have gotten the following and been done with it (then again the son would not have had a free compressor for tires ;-) 
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Thats pretty much the same exact one I have. |
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I've been using the cans of compressed air myself, and I know they aren't expensive, but it just kinda bothers me to go through em. Because they freeze up when used, I end up having to keep 2 on the bench and alternate if cleaning more than 1 rifle, so it makes it feel like I'm going through twice as many, even though I know I'm not. Been thinking about a cheap 3 gallon harbor freight compressor. Figure for $50 and the amount I'd use it, it should last long enough and work good enough for me. Been meaning to get one to blow out computer cases anyway. |
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