Hi everyone welcome to today's video where I'm going to show you a new tool I've just purchased
As you can see it's an AEG 18 volt air compressor.
I'm pretty sure Ridgid make one of these in the States. I think they've made one for a few years
but in New Zealand and probably Australia as well this is a relatively new product,
I think it's been around maybe a year or two. I'm hoping for what I need to use it
for it's going to be a really awesome addition to my workshop
So first of all I'm going to unbox it then I'll tell you a little bit
about why I went with this style of air compressor and then we'll see if it works
All right so that was annoyingly hard to get out of the box but it's out now.
Some features, so
initially I really like this solid handle frame around it means it's not going to get
banged around really it's nice and sturdy on good rubber feet here so that's always nice to see.
We've got on off switch, regulator here which is lockable, dual gauges one for the tank one
for the outlet, there's the outlet there, safety valve and on the back is the drain
down the bottom here, drain out any condensation and that sort of thing
It takes two batteries I believe they need to be oh yes it says right there they need to be
4ah or bigger and it will run off one but there's just slots for two so I guess you don't have to
change them all the time and on the top here is a hose wrap as well so that's quite handy.
The tank on this unit is quite small it's only 3.8L so it delivers 30.8L/min at a max of 120 psi
But previously I had a regular style a compressor which was mid to small size I would say
but it was pretty much useless for high volume air tools such as especially paint spraying,
just didn't have enough capacity so it was continually struggling to keep up so I've kind
of given up on that idea of paint spraying in here anyway because it makes too much of a mess and I
think I will go with a Wagner electric sprayer or something like that rather than a compressor
I don't actually have many other high volume air tools, I only really want to use this
for nail guns, air spray guns, filling tyres working on bikes that sort of thing
and obviously the portability of this unit is much better than a traditional style so
for me that's why I've moved to this one and I also want to build it into this workbench
so that I can take it in and out quite easily but I think I'm going to put it down in here
build it in some sort of sliding out drawer, something like that so that'll be really handy
and then if I'm working on the house somewhere else I can just pull it out of there carry it
down and easy as no worries about dragging a big compressor through the house or anything like that
So now let's have a quick look at how it works. I'll grab a couple of batteries and chuck them in
and grab the air hose and nail gun and we'll put a few nails in something
So a couple of five amp hours here, chuck them in,
Now we'll turn it on and see what the noise is like
All right so that took about 50 seconds to fill from start to finish so
that's pretty good and just test the regulator here
Have to turn it quite far before it starts dropping but
fairly responsive so that's good
and of course you can lock it by pressing it in like that and then it's fixed in place
I also just noticed there's a crack in the housing here so it looks like it's cracked
when they assembled it so it's not really good, I'll probably take this one back
but in the meantime I'm going to grab out the nail gun and give it a bit of a test run
on some scrap wood that I've got here and we'll see how it goes
I actually found something better to test this on I was putting together some
pallet Christmas trees for my little kids to paint so they need a few pieces of wood nailed onto the
back to make them a little bit less wobbly so we'll have a crack at that I'm going to bang
in as many nails as I can as fast as I can and we'll see if this air compressor runs out of air
It's only 18 gauge nails so obviously anything a little bit bigger would
use more air but hopefully this little unit can keep up with this nail gun
All right so I just banged in 40 staples pretty much as fast as I could
and the compressor was running but not one of them missed or didn't go in properly
For me there's not too many occasions where I would have to nail that fast or
do many more than that in such a quick time
so I think that this little unit will more than handle what I need to use it for
and it's also relatively quiet, my old one I really didn't
like using it that close to me without ear muffs on so that's another plus
and one thing I forgot to mention before is that it's completely oil free so
there's almost, well there is no maintenance to be done on it
So I think that this is a really handy little unit for someone who wants to
just use low volume air tools or really wants that portability
For me it's going to be really handy I think so as I mentioned earlier I'm going to build this
compressor into my workbench or at least give it a home in there so
that I can take it in and out easily so have a look out for that video in future
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