well welcome back to the Steve Rock Show today we're gonna have some fun we're gonna do a little
bit of experimenting do you have too big of an air compressor because this is what I've seen
so many times is a lot of do-it-yourselfers get themselves a big 80 gallon whompin air compressor
and do you need it and we're gonna try it out with this new Makita MACC 2400 i have and we're going
to see whether you have too much air compressor can you have too much air compressor we're going
to start the testing out with this and this is the Ingersoll Rand it's a terrific gun 21:35 TI and it
takes 5 cubic feet per minute to run and everybody should have one of these get your own make it up
yourself buy it in the store and not too sure it's very easy to do just got one coupling here at e
your fitting at the other end and just the air gauge guys I got the compressor hooked up to 25
foot hose supposed to be 25 foot hose I measured it it's 22 feet and a bit for 25 foot hose I don't
know I'm gonna start measuring the hose from now on but it's a quarter inch hose and there's a lot
of loss in the line I'm going to show you what's going on here we're going to test the compressor
out to see if this is the type of compressor that all you really need you don't need a great
big huge compressor first of all burns a lot of hydro second of all you have all that volume of
air that you're never going to use sometimes yes if you have like a sand blaster or something like
that sure it's warranted but can you get away with something like this that's nice and quiet
efficient doesn't take up a lot of space in your garage and so far I'm liking this thing I've been
using it quite a bit and I unplugged it at night and just watch the gauge in the morning and guys
it didn't drop so it's it there's no leaks on it or anything like that fantastic compressor and
it's pumping up a little bit faster now than it did before like it's close to just over a
minute from bone-dry empty so let's get testing here well here we are right here I've got the
holes all hooked up and if we take a look down here try to get Jen where it's you can actually
see something but it's pretty tough guys I don't know if you can see that right there but that's
130 and I got the tanks gauges Mac straight out both sides they're both the same so let's start
testing this and see first thing I want to do is set it up where I can show you the drop so let's
go to that first okay so there we are right there now you watch that gauge when I pull the trigger
three more because I haven't got it up on jack stands or anything but I tried to get
everything in the shot here so let's just take a look okay so I got you zoomed in on
the compressor dials and when I use a torque stick and tighten all the wheel nuts up I made
it go just above 100 so it will kick in and let's try kicking some off and see if it holds
well guys what do you think here's the compressor it's charged back up completely now I'll tell
you what if you're just set your compressor in your garage at 90 psi which these are supposed
to run at you would never get will not off you have to Jack that air pressure up and up and up
and a lot of people are worried about having too much air pressure at the impact and it's
not safe to run an impact at too high an air pressure now this will show you exactly what
your outlet pressure is the static pressure here of a hundred and thirty psi is not the running
pressure so I don't believe that you can test it without having a gauge and I believe in the
gauge myself it proves what kind of tests that you can do from one side of your air compressor
to the inlet of your compressor so there is a huge drop and that's something that you got to
really take into account yeah I see a lot of people just set their compressor at 90 psi and
they're wondering like how come not get nothing done but yeah I think you can have too much of
an air compressor this air compressor here is fine takes out the wheel nuts no problem at
all I got a quarter inch hose and a so called 25-foot lead and guys yeah this is no problem
this is no-brainer I don't have all kinds of room in the garage taken up so if you're thinking about
getting an air compressor a small one like this does the job fine this here has enough capacity
to run the air compressor no good first hand blaster I wouldn't use a first hand blaster but
for all-around use for do-it-yourselfer I think it's a great idea and for use guys thinking about
it just make yourself up one of these it's like I got this a princess honor you get these gauges
anywhere might cost you 15 bucks by the time you put it all together and it's well worth it
so you could test it and not just guess on what the air pressure is because you can put too much
air pressure at the end of line there so thanks for joining in if you haven't seen this channel
before you're welcome to subscribe come back again guys let's have some more fun doing this by now