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I have a need to use a needle scaler on a few fairly large projects with footery corners and nooks i cant use a wire wheel or manual brush on and eventually ill need to spray - both undercoat and body work - and id quite like a propper windy gun , they just cannae be beat for stuff like pulley centre bolts , i have an electric one and its a bit mince compared to the windy guns we have at work.
I have my eye on a needlescaler that says it requires 4.5cfm at 6 bar to work .
I also have access to borrow a( very noisy direct drive) rockworth 24l compressor that i can borrow to get me started - it claims a 7.3cfm and 8bar - but for not very long id assume.
Other than the fact itll run out of air very quick am i likely to find other issues - ie the needle scaler doesnt actually work as expected ?
Followed by - getting my own compressor.
Has anyone any experiance of the wolf dakota belt driven range ? 16 amp 3hp motor on a 90-150litre tank at 10bar and 14cfm for between 225 and 345 quid Seems to get decent reviews when you google , only real complaint was about the packaging being mince and some arriving damaged - but i believe the original importers went bust and they have a new company bringing them in, most folk saying if you do have issues the bulk of the parts are transferable from the machine mart spare parts catalogue.
Its a big unit but got a separate shed at the back of the garage for sticking it in.
Cheers
Ok so more reading borrowing the rockworth is probably a hiding to nothing. Ill get a about 10seconds out of it 🙂
Will get the bulk of what i need doing with the wirewheel and evaluate it after that..... Its a toss up between getting the tools to finish the chassis propperly or - new fuel tank and radiator......
View on the wolf still appreciated though
I can't comment on the wolf specifically, but those needle scalers REALLY consume air. I once helped a friend de-rust a landrover chassis with one - we were using a huge 500l 3 phase garage compressor and it was still running almost non stop to keep up.
I would go for the biggest you can afford - have looked at what is available secondhand?
Its a landy chassis i have to do while i have it in bits.
Going to wirewheel the bulk of it , the needle scaler is for the fiddly bits and corners that the knotted wheel just wont do.
Tbh , the HAVS risk would probably mean id need breaks as often as the compressor.
Been looking second hand ,but its mostly pishy 25litre ones forsale - sometimes a 3ph screw type but 3hp is the biggest i can go as im limited to single phase 16amp. And thus 150l seems to be the biggest tank i can get.
A clarke 100l with 3hp belt drive would be circa 400quid. On its own - but might be a safer bet.
A big tank is good, but really look at the flow rate of your compressor and the tools to work out what you need.
I wouldn't go second hand. They rust from the inside out and when they go, they go big! You just don't know how it was cared for.
I think I'm using a 6hp 200L petrol compressor and it's only just man enough for sand blasting. I have seen places that have big tanks of compressed air inline which means the compressor isn't going 24/7 and having the wait for the thing.
Yep thats another issue wih going used. Around here its mostly farmers selling up. Which to me means ****ed.
Will get on it with the wirewheel the morn and see just how much im left with with regard to the needlegun.
I know the 150l is fine for spraying , i know folk spraying cars with 50l in their garage.... And i only want to do single panels.
I suspect anything you buy at home isn't going to be as good as what you have at work 🙂
fwiw the wolf was discounted quickly after a friend pointed out some issues he had when it was runningconstantly - basically it got hand meltingly hot due to not having a cast piston and head.
i did how ever borrow my dads 24litre job- just a little clarke thing -its painted all my stuff admirably.