hi everyone! i am a brand new member and this is my first post.i hope you dont mind that its a question.does anyone have any info on the blue mini air compressor from testors? i just bought the badger anthem air brush kit today and i now need a good compressor. one that is around $100 or so and is fairly quiet since i’ll be doing most of my models late at night with everyone else in bed.any help would be greatly appreciated.[:)]
go for an industrial compressor, it’s under 80 or so bucks, comes with a tank. and congrats on your 155, enjoy it.
Those under $150 carpentry compressors are too loud for what he wants to do. Those are the loudest. It’s hard to say which ones will be quiet enough. Around $100 narrows it down to almost nothing. I guess a diaphragm compressor is all you can do at that price, but you’ll get into the market for really nice compressors if you raise the budget to $200. Here’s an old topic spawned from when I was compressor shopping: http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25598
I have a Testors Blue Mini and it works great, unlike thier airbrushes. It’s very quiet and will give you all the pressure you will need. I have my Badger 155 on it with no problems. You will have to add both a regulator and moisture trap that will probably add another $30 or so.
John
I use the Husky Easy Air available from Home Depot for $99.00. Its not the quietest but my wife swears she can’t hear it upstairs. It has a 1.5 gal tank and is very useful topping off the car tires too[:)]
I put in a set of quick release couplings on my regulator and on the car tire inflator, just pop the line off the regulator and pop in the inflator away you go.
Hope this helps.
thanks for the info everyone! hey genj53john where did you get your moisture trap and regulator for the blue mini?
I had that blue mini compressor but additional fitting and moisturizer trap/regulator still needed. I hate it due to not working well even you add the trap, I found moistuire still be sprayed from my airbrush (aztek as well), and too loud!!! So I leave it. I think I will sell it out. I just buy another one with piston type and very quite.
I too am thumbs down on the mini blue compressor. I had moisture issues and the fittings overheated to the point where they were so hot they popped the airhose. I bought a Paasche compressor and I am fully satisfied now.
Steve
There is nothing wrong with using a medical compressor for an air supply. I used one for a long time and the only reason I stopped was when I bought a Silentaire. I still have the medical compressor as a back up but Silentaire is reliable so the medical compressor just sits.
The medical compressor is reliable, quiet light-weight and cheap to buy at Ebaby. Heck, I didn’t even have a regulator on it. It didn’t need it. The pressure coming out of the little compressor was always 15 psi. Try the little compressor and you’ll like it.
http://search.ebay.com/medical-compressor_W0QQsocolumnlayoutZ1
med compressors rock
Roosterfish,
Does the air sputter at all? My son’s nebulizer machine is a medical compressor but the air sputters badly out of it. It is probably a diaphragm compressor.
Mike
no air doesn’t sputter. works fine.
Not a single sput.