Sub - £60 Compressors?

Alex Shaw

Hi evryone,

i've been looking at getting a cheap compressor recently. I would like to know if they are any good, or if it will explode, sending shards of sharp plastic and metal into my face. Here's a couple of cheap compressor i've found on a couple of websites -

http://www.airbrushcompressorshop.co.uk/compressors/

http://www.everythingairbrush.com/acatalog/AS_Series.html

Any feedback would be appreciated!

Stretch your budget for another £10 and get the twin piston compressor. It will provide you with enough air for 2 airbrushes and free of pulsation.

Do not touch those diaphram compressors. Too little power and prone to pulsation.

Oh yeah, and i'm also planning on getting a PremiAir G35. Anyone had a go with one?

If you could stretch your budget slightly, I would get one with an airtank, I have the one listed in your first link, 2nd one down, pretty quiet, 3 litre airtank, they go to aroubd 60 P.S.I, which you will never use for airbrsuhing, with the airtank it stops the pulsing you get with compressors without the tank, have alook on eBay, think I picked mine up for £75 with the shipping, I have a big 25 litre compressor in the garage, but it's way too cold to be out there, so I bought one i could happily use in the house

My last compressor cost me £50 about 15 years ago. It was very loud, had just the single tank so a limited air supply, no way of adjusting the pressure. But it did work fine for all those year. I only got a new one because i wanted to improve my airbrushing. The one i got was a Revell one that is one in a range of 3, the cheaper of which i think goes for arounf £75 and has a bit more than the ones you are looking at. But, the one i had served me well and did every thing i wanted. It was just that i then wanted more. So ye, go for it.