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Used the new compressor

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  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Posted by maddafinga on Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:49 AM
It's by a company called Sim Air. I got it from DixieArt for just under 300 bucks. The particular model was the one with the air tank, I believe it's called the stealth 5000 or something similar. I am immensely pleased with mine.
Madda Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. -- Leonardo Da Vinci Tact is for those who lack the wit for sarcasm.--maddafinga
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 11, 2005 9:39 PM
Who makes that rig? Very nice! My son and I are looking for a new compressor set up and that may be it.
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Friday, March 11, 2005 9:32 PM
That compressor sounds great my friend.
I am glad you like it.

Mike

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Used the new compressor
Posted by maddafinga on Friday, March 11, 2005 9:22 PM
Ok, I set this thing up last Sunday, but was too worn out from setting it up to paint any. I've been really sick, so I didn't have much energy at all. I've used it a few times during the week, and once again earlier today.

I love this thing.

The tank is small-ish, but more than adequate for my needs. It's got a tank pressure gauge on one side (the tank stays at about 60) and a regulator on the other. It came with two different airbrush hoses, and a holder as well. The way it's set up, the water trap is on the airbrush holder, not on the tank. One hose they provided runs to the water trap, and my braided hose with the quick connect that Mike gave me attaches to the other side of the water trap.

It's less than half the noise of my blue ice, you can barely tell that it's running. It's so much easier and quieter to spray and clean up with this than it ever was before. I'm already finding excuses to paint more often. Big Smile [:D] Unless you're listening specifically for it, you really can't tell that it's running at all.

I don't get the pulsing that I used to, which is great, nor do I get the blast of air when I first press the trigger down. I really hated that blast of air. I couldn't be any happier with this thing at all.
Madda Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. -- Leonardo Da Vinci Tact is for those who lack the wit for sarcasm.--maddafinga
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