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Well as I have said many times I have what I consider to be a very small shop with entirely too much stuff in it. With my quest to get organized and free up some room one of the things that had to go was my old air compressor. I have had this unit for a long time and it still functions great but being a twin cylinder, 3 HP with a fairly large tank it just took up so much room that I decided to move it back to the garage.
Well since then I have really decided that I miss having the compressor in the shop a lot. So with that I started shopping for a much smaller unit to put out there. I compared about everything on just about all the smaller units locally available but really what was most important to me was the SCFM rating. For me the ability to run my tools without interruption is pretty important. What a came up with is this one;
http://www.ridgid.com/MenuDriver.asp...AIR-COMPRESSOR
I decided to take off the first part of the week and with that give myself a whole week off with the impending holiday. So this morning I got the new compressor in the shop and cranked up. OMG! This thing is LOUD! It absolutely resonates through the shop and actually almost hurts my ears! It does however pump up to 150 pounds faster than anything I have ever seen but my God the noise! If I am out there doing something and concentrating and this thing kicks on I think it will scare the crap out of me!
I think I may have to build some type of little cabinet hanging off my building to house this thing, I don’t think my nerves can take it!
Ken
Well since then I have really decided that I miss having the compressor in the shop a lot. So with that I started shopping for a much smaller unit to put out there. I compared about everything on just about all the smaller units locally available but really what was most important to me was the SCFM rating. For me the ability to run my tools without interruption is pretty important. What a came up with is this one;
http://www.ridgid.com/MenuDriver.asp...AIR-COMPRESSOR
I decided to take off the first part of the week and with that give myself a whole week off with the impending holiday. So this morning I got the new compressor in the shop and cranked up. OMG! This thing is LOUD! It absolutely resonates through the shop and actually almost hurts my ears! It does however pump up to 150 pounds faster than anything I have ever seen but my God the noise! If I am out there doing something and concentrating and this thing kicks on I think it will scare the crap out of me!
I think I may have to build some type of little cabinet hanging off my building to house this thing, I don’t think my nerves can take it!
Ken
**one and only purchaser of a BT3C official thong** 
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