Every single time...

[raisetheprice]

Every year my dad and I take a couple of hunting trips that we really enjoy doing to together. It never fails that some disaster happens while I'm out of town. I'm usally only gone 48 hours or so. This time the air compressor that I just installed back in February decided that it'd be ok for the air feed pipe from the pump to the tank to just snap apart at the flaired fitting at the pump. Bleeding too much air and luckily my attentdant caught it as to not burn up the brand new pump. But....no air....no carwashing. I left camp early Sunday morning, luckily Tractor Supply let me rob the part off of one in stock. Unfortunately, my Roll-Air is in the process of being fixed right now (bad motor) and I was going to take the Ingersoll-Rand to the house once I got the Roll-Air back up. The Roll-Air is a beast compared to this dinky Ingersoll_rand. UGH!!!!

 

[MEP001]

Since a Vector won't run at all if there's no air, I set up a second compressor with the pressure switch set lower than the primary one, and with the two tanks tee'd directly together. By itself the smaller one isn't quite rated to handle the job, but for occasional and temporary use, along with 140 gallons of storage, it has no problem keeping up when it needs to.

 

[Jim L.]

We must have bought our equipment at the same store. My wash definitely knows when I leave town.

Like MEP I bought $300 unit at Home Depot and plumbed it into the discharge line of my primary compressor. I has come in handy a few times.