[LarryJ-nova]

Picked up a 6-gal, 2.6cfm, 135psi porter-cable pancake at the junkyard. Works great. Gonna finally get a brad nailer and maybe larger nail gun. What other tools do y'all operate on yours.

 

[SeniorSitizen]

My youngest son used his to sandblast a narrow strip of paint, about a foot at a time, from bricks the previous home owner left. The compressor could build while he moved the ladder and scratched his butt.

 

[gregzoll]

Tire inflator and blow nozzle is all that I use with mine.

 

[joecaption]

I've done many a roof with one, impact gun, narrow crown staple gun, framing nailer, siding nailer.
I've even made up a tee and have ran two roofing nail guns at the same time.

 

[GottaFixIt]

All kinds of nail guns, a blow gun, and a tire filler.

I tried a small die grinder, but it could only run it for about 15 seconds before it lost RPM.

 

[hyunelan2]

You can pretty-much do anything other than paint, grind, or sand. Those need higher volume tanks to operate.

 

[joecaption]

Here's a general guide for air tools.
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/t...E_97hs83UEQwI5v12_lWHu1lek6M1LVcI8hoCHyfw_wcB

 

[woodworkbykirk]

the type of tool you run off the compressor is not only dictated by the tank size but by the cfm's on the motor itself as to how quickly it can recover from the tool being used

if you got the compressor at the junk yard i hope you inspected it very closely.. the porter cable pancakes are notorious for the welds on the tank going on them and exploding

 

[joecaption]

Never heard of that one, but any oiless compressor uses plastic rings, connecting rod bearings, reed valves that are all going to fail at some point .
Could have bought a new or rebuilt one pretty cheap and had a warranty.

 

[woodworkbykirk]

there were several cases reported by osha about those compresors exploding more so on commercial sites.. someone i know use to be very high up with one of the biggest construction outfits in canada, they banned the porter cable compressors on their sites for this reason

as for the oiless compressor thing, very very true. the one i use to have only lasted 3 years of very light use before it would take upwards of 10 minutes to fill up from empty.. i several high end trim guys that only bought hte porter cable compressors but would buy two of them a year . they wouldnt fix em just replace them