Cheap air compressor?
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Flying_Salt
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I noticed that air compressors are very expensive. After some thinking, I came up with this theory. What if you could fill an air tank with air from a normal pump to it's max pressure (~120 psi average I think) then use that for blowgun valves or for filling pneumatiics?
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Yes. I've got an 11 gallon one that I top off after I'm done using it. You could probably hook it up to a small 30 dollar automotive compressor as well.
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Great, so I could use that on a cloud?
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MisterSteve124
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yeah if u use a 11gallon one like mark. It has to be pretty big especially because it can't continue to pump while your shooting.
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Flying_Salt
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Still, that's significantly cheaper than a big 'ol Husky.
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I bought a 5 gallon tank for $20 at Sears and built a little backpack for it. It looks like a jet pack 
But hey I carry it around and have portable air wherever in my garage (for spudguns of course) or around the house.
But hey I carry it around and have portable air wherever in my garage (for spudguns of course) or around the house.
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If you want nearly unlimited air, get a SCUBA tank.
Won't last forever filling big guns, but on smaller pneumatics, you'd wear yourself out trying to empty a SCUBA tank.
I found one in our shed, (:D), yesterday, and I am throroughly happy. All I have to do now is find a regulator, (fixed), to get the pressure down to 300 PSI, and then just connect a husky regulator to that and connect that to a hose and a female quick disconnect.
Refills cost barely nothing if I were to take it to the fire station, or I could get it filled at the dive shop, which only costs slightly more than a CO<sub>2</sub> fill at a paintball shop.
Won't last forever filling big guns, but on smaller pneumatics, you'd wear yourself out trying to empty a SCUBA tank.
I found one in our shed, (:D), yesterday, and I am throroughly happy. All I have to do now is find a regulator, (fixed), to get the pressure down to 300 PSI, and then just connect a husky regulator to that and connect that to a hose and a female quick disconnect.
Refills cost barely nothing if I were to take it to the fire station, or I could get it filled at the dive shop, which only costs slightly more than a CO<sub>2</sub> fill at a paintball shop.