After many years of service, my compressor has given up the ghost (it’s from my fridge motor, which survived the flood).
I usually have a piston-type emergency compressor, but it’s too noisy to use for fine painting.
The tanks are connected.
Luckily, I found a fridge compressor on a street stall that had been modified to inflate bicycle tyres.
I paid 25 euros for it.
I reassembled it onto the old tank with service lights.
I presume that you know that some (most or all?) fridge compressors get their lubrication from the cooling gases circulated in the fridge. When they are used to pump air they will eventually break down. Silent, fridge style, compressors consume compressor oil …
Thanks for clarifying that.
I don’t usually have very long painting sessions (unfortunately), so as long as the tube doesn’t break, lubrication isn’t a problem.
…though I could connect the oil distributor to the air intake…
I’ll have to think about it.
The lubrication of air compressors forces us to have oil-traps on the outgoing air,
water comes from the moisture in the air …
Unless…you run a CO2 setup.
Correct, I’ve still istalled
