Compressor Suggestions?

[keilau]

keilau:

This is what Gary Lee referred to. It is noisy. I would not be able to model next to it.

Northern Tools has several airbrush compressors that are reasonably quiet, such as this one which recently sold out:

You are lucky if you got one of this. There is a huge difference in noise level between the two. They were priced about the same.

The majority of modeler would have perfer a compressor at 55-58 dB noise level. To argue that a noisy compessor is fine just because he/she can tolerate it is ingenious. The whole point of this forum to help people avoid making that kind of mistake.

Just put the compressor in another room or the garage and run a long air hose. I did that for years with a Craftsman 1-1/2 hp 12 gallon tank compressor. You lose very little pressure even with 60’ of air hose.

We are talking about the cheap compressor solution here. The 60 feet air hose can easily double the $40 cost of the compressor. Besides, it is inconvenient to have to put away the long air hose each time after the modeling session. Few family will accept leaving the air hose stringing around the house all the time.

Most modeler cannot afford the Badger Million-Air compressor you recommended. But they would still perfer to have a compressor that is quiet enough to be in the workbench area and can hear the family when they call. There are many compressor which can fit this bill.

Again, it is a personal perference that how much noise you choose to live with while modeling.