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                        Air Compressor Pressure Question

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                        eizzle
                        • Member since
                          August 2005
                        • From: Greencastle, IN
                        Posted by eizzle on Sunday, December 3, 2006 6:21 PM

                         Shellback wrote:
                        Great ! A problem solved and a response from the happy customer , usually we dont get any feed back form our answers . Thanks for letting us know how the problem got solved  jvolker Thumbs Up [tup]

                        Sign - Ditto [#ditto] Glad it worked out for ya!

                        Colin

                         Homer Simpson for president!!!

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                        Shellback
                        • Member since
                          March 2006
                        • From: Right Side of a Left State
                        Posted by Shellback on Sunday, December 3, 2006 5:48 PM
                        Great ! A problem solved and a response from the happy customer , usually we dont get any feed back form our answers . Thanks for letting us know how the problem got solved  jvolker Thumbs Up [tup]
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                        jvolker
                        • Member since
                          October 2004
                        Posted by jvolker on Sunday, December 3, 2006 5:23 PM
                        I just want to thank you guys for your help and good ideas.  I taped all the connections (to include the threads on the brush) and my pressure went up to a maximum of about 40 pounds!  I can control it from there all the way down to 1 or 2 pounds.  I am using my new Iwata HP-CS as soon as my Squadron order arrives with my paints and thinner.  Thanks for all the great help.
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                        MaxPower
                        • Member since
                          June 2006
                        • From: Calgary
                        Posted by MaxPower on Sunday, December 3, 2006 1:56 AM
                        A drop of windex or soapy water on each joint will tell you if you have a leak real fast!
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                        eizzle
                        • Member since
                          August 2005
                        • From: Greencastle, IN
                        Posted by eizzle on Saturday, December 2, 2006 5:10 PM

                         jvolker wrote:
                        Would you suggest that I spring for a new compressor?  From what I have read I can use one from Wal-Mart or Harbor Freight and that a holding tank would be a good idea.  What is your thinking on that?

                        Yeah, you can use those. Make sure the noise isn't going to bother anybody, they can be rather noisy!

                        Colin

                         Homer Simpson for president!!!

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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Saturday, December 2, 2006 4:16 PM

                        If that gauge is correct 10 psi is too low, especially if you are using a siphon-feed airbrush.

                        I don't even go that low with a gravity-feed.  

                        “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
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                        jvolker
                        • Member since
                          October 2004
                        Posted by jvolker on Saturday, December 2, 2006 4:09 PM
                        Would you suggest that I spring for a new compressor?  From what I have read I can use one from Wal-Mart or Harbor Freight and that a holding tank would be a good idea.  What is your thinking on that?
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                        eizzle
                        • Member since
                          August 2005
                        • From: Greencastle, IN
                        Posted by eizzle on Friday, December 1, 2006 9:12 PM
                        You should be able to work with it, but I would also tape those joints to! You might not feel any leaks, but they might still be there. I would guess you will end up spraying at about 7 pr 8 psi, not much, but it will work for really fine lines and such!

                        Colin

                         Homer Simpson for president!!!

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                        jvolker
                        • Member since
                          October 2004
                        Air Compressor Pressure Question
                        Posted by jvolker on Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:08 PM
                        This place is just great for getting questions answered and for learning!  OK, my Badger Air Regulator and Water Trap arrived today from Dixie Art.  I hooked it up to my old Badger 180 (about 30 years old now) and it appears that the max pressure it will produce is about 10 pounds.  Now, I haven't tapped the joints with teflon yet but I really didn't sense any leaks.  I am wonder if that is enough pressure to work with.  My range would be 0 to 10, doesn't seem like much.  Any ideas?
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