Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 16:36:15 -0500
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From: Peter&Varshna <ztgst@eden.com>
Subject: Air in the Life (longish)
Citizens:
This is an extremely belated thanks to all of those who responded to my
questions concerning air compressors a while back. The volume and
quality of the responses surprised me even though I'd been reading the
list for a while and knew before hand that youz were a friendly and
knowledgeable bunch. As suggested by more than one list member, I've
been buying air tools for the last several weeks and am only now about to
go buy the compressor itself.
What had me hesitating was when Bob Hoover and a couple of others
validated my apprehension by responding that perhaps an investment in a
compressed air system was too much for "one restoration project." True
to my character, I thought about it too much. I thought about it all that
first weekend after receiving the list's responses while I was busy
changing out the rear bearings on the Honkeymobile ( aka Der
Honkenvagen), my shrimpboat of a 4-door mid-seventies American car I use
to drive back and forth to work. I thought about it some more the next
weekend when I was changing her front bearings. I thought about it even
more the following weekend as I was changing out the rear brakes of my
wife's SCANFEB (Sub-Compact, American Nameplate/Far-East Built) vehicle.
That's when, after cracking my knuckes for the second time while fighting
one of the return springs, it finally hit me: buying a bus was never
about "one restoration project," it was about embarking on an entire
*lifestyle.* Duh!
I decided then and their that getting a compressed air system would do
nothing but increase the Quality of my lifestyle; that's big-Q Persigian
"Zen and the Art" type Quality.
Concerning whether to air or not to air, I received many personal
responses from list memebers who had compressed air saying that they were
very pleased with it, if for nothing else then blowing crud out of nooks
and crannies. I didn't receive a single response from anyone who had air
expressing any regrets whatsoever.
I'm getting the Compresssor from Sam's Club, a six HP 60-gallon jobbie.
I have looked and looked and looked again at what was available and Sears
had a tempting 6.5 HP 33-gallon portable but it was a direct drive
"oiless" jobbie and someone had commented in one of the responses I'd
received how he'd brought back the one he'd purchased because it was so
LOUD. Oiless? Loud? Something wrong with that picture...
Chris Chubb:
Last weekend at Home Depot they were running a special on a 6 HP
30-gallon 2-cylinder belt-drive portable for only $327! The only problem
with the less powerful ones is that the tank is smaller. Several members
suggested bigger tanks are always better because they don't require the
engine to run as much.
Anyway, thanks again everybody!
peter.