I’ve acquired an air compressor and would like to use pneumatic tools whenever possible. Can I use an Impact WRENCH to drive lag screws into wood? Or am I stock with buying a cordless Impact DRIVER?
Absolutely you can use an impact wrench to drive lag screws. You can adjust the torque on any quality air impact wrench to avoid over tightening or stripping the wood.
it stands to reason (at least to me) that air tool oil should basically be the same thing as pellgun oil,
I was wondering if this is sound logic, or if I’d harm my air rifle by using this oil?
by pneumatic air guns, I’m reffering to pump air guns, I know it shouldn’t be used in spring powered rifles, I would think air tool oil should more than suffice for a pump gun
The oil is flammable. Used in the high pressure chamber of a spring powered rifle will cause detonation, or at the very least dieseling. This is unsafe. At the least it will damage you gun. It has the potential for serious injury or even death.
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as for a pump gun, maybe, but a little tube of crosman pellgun oil is like $3, I’d hate to find out later if it was damaging to seals in say my Benjamin 397… i’d play it safe
I work in a mattress factory, and all of our tools are air tools, and the air comes from a single compressor to various parts of the factory through air hoses and pvc pipes. Water seems to collect in one of the hoses all the time, and damages tools connected to it, no matter how often the compressor is drained. Does anyone know why, and what I can do about it?
A good piping design for an air system should encorporate a drip leg or drain pot at each point where air is drawn off. The drip leg or drain pot is below the take off point for the air tools so the water doesn’t enter the tool but can be drained off. In a really good system, an automatic drain valve similar to a steam trap is installed to take care of this problem.
I want to power a rotary sander with compressed co2. Even though the tool is designed to be powered by compressed air, will co2 work?
I disagree with parts of both answers so far – a big tank of CO2 will certainly power a pneumatic tool – it is pressurized to over 2000 psi and with a regulator you can easily get that to 60, 90 or 120 psi for tool use. But a tank will cost you $100 or more to purchase and refilling will be about $20 and tank will not last very long.
Pneumatic tools use a LOT of air and many air compressors don’t have the capacity to keep them running for long (I have a small Sears compressor on a tank and when used on the few grinding, etc. tools I have, it runs fine for a few minutes, but then the pressure drops as I take more air each minute than the compressor can force into the tank.
I am seeking pneumatic tool repair parts for several days but there wasn’t any result. So I apply to you to get some advice. In what place is it better to purchase what I need? Thanx in advance for your answer!
Go to this shop online: http://seerch.com/category/739/Pneumatic-Tool-Repair-Parts/ . I usually buy pneumatic tool repair parts there.
Instead of carving a shape with a scroll saw what hand tools could i use instead.
Any besides a knife?
Instead of boring out a half circle in a piece of wood with a router what hand tool could i use?
Any besides a gouge chisel?
you could try using a coping saw instead of a scroll saw.for the half circle you might be able to use a bit brace,but im not sure on that one.hope this helps.
I want to install a power inverter in my truck so that I can charge the batteries for my cordless tools when I am on the job site. I use 18v cordless tools. I don’t know what to look for in an inverter. Any help would be appreciated.
Hey Doc, I helped a guy with the same situation years ago out in Seattle. He would work on jobs and quite for the day by noon because all his batteries were dead. There are two problems here:
First, if you’re charging something like a Dewalt drill battery, it probably has a regular household AC cord from the charger base that plugs into the wall. Those type chargers are very sensitive to AC sine waves. I plugged one into a Vector model 750 watt inverter that was hooked to a 12 volt battery once, it burned the charger up in less than a minute. For that type of charger you need either regular utility power, a gas fired generator, or a sine wave inverter. The wave forms from those sources are perfectly rounded. Sive wave inverters are generally quite expensive, a 110 volt output model rated at maybe 100 watts will cost you a few hundred dollars, and there are not very many of them around. Most sine wave inverters are in the several thousand watt size for running households and RV’s. You can get a modified sine wave inverter very inexpensively at an auto parts store, truck stop, or even Home Depot. A 750 watt model like ours will cost around $70 USD. Ours runs our 110 volt weed whip and any of my AC drills.
If you have a tool with a smaller battery, and it charges with a wall pack transformer that has a skinny cord that plugs into the tool, or its battery, it will work fine on the cheaper modified sine wave inverters. Wall pack transformers have isolation type transformers installed in them prior to the voltage regulation, so the choppy sine wave of the cheaper inverters is smoothed out before it gets to the sensitive electronics. The DeWalt type charger bases don’t do this. Almost any size will work, most battery chargers of this type use less than 25 to 50 watts of AC power, so a 750 watt inverter could run a power strip full of them simultaneously.
The other problem was mentioned by your previous answerer. If you take a good size inverter, like our 750 and hook it to your truck battery without the engine on, in an hour, you might not get it to start. Running the motor all that time opens up other problems as well though. What we did in Seattle was this. We bought two Trojan T-105 golf cart batteries. They are 6 volts each, so if you wire them together in series you get 12 volts. Then we grounded the negative side of the new pack, and ran a heavy wire through a driving lamp relay ($5.95 at auto parts store) to the positive of the regular truck battery. Now when he drives, he turns on the switch on the dash that activates the relay, and the golf cart batteries charge while he’s driving. When he gets to the site, he turns off the motor and the switch, the battery banks separate, and the golf cart batteries run his inverter for several hours or longer. Even if the golf cart batteries run down, the motor will still start with the regular truck battery. Makes for great camping too, and backup power for your home from your truck. The batteries probably cost about $90 each today, and the inverter another $75. Just remember you can’t run those DeWalt type chargers on that $70 inverter. What is really nice about that truck setup is that with that inverter and two golf cart batteries, he can actually run an extension cord from his truck to his 110 volt drill, and not bother with the rechargeables. Or he can run the 110 volt drill, but charge other items with wall pack transformers at the same time. Golf cart batteries hold 220 amp hours each, probably more than twice any 12 volt battery you’ll find on the shelf, and they really hold up well to repeated charges and discharges. We actually run our entire home on them each night with a 4000 watt sine wave inverter, my batteries are almost 10 years old now. Just keep them watered regularly. Good luck Doc, and take care, Rudydoo
Novice repair tech here who’s tired of turning micro screwdrivers. I use very small phillips head and occasionally flat head screw drivers. What is the best power tool setup that can replace these. Needless to say screws are very small.
THx in advance!
One suggestion :
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-PD600-Screwdriver-Articulating/dp/B0000C6DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1275402096&sr=1-1
and
http://www.amazon.com/Micro-TORX-Driver-Bit-T7/dp/B003B0UXS0/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1275402278&sr=1-16
Or whatever bits you need