Ok, got my new toys, got home friday night and as we all know when you have a new toy, I could'nt help myself and went and plugged it all in to try it out.
Put the oil in the compressor as per the instructions, put the air filter on, checked all the connections, ready to roll.
Flick the switch, the unit makes a loud hum noise and the lights dim in the garage. Nothing else happens. Try it another 6 or 7 times before deciding I'm up the sht and I've got a dud. (not a great start). 7am Sat morning I drive to my local bunnings, take it in and explain what happened. Very friendly and helpful, two guys helped me out and took the unit to the service area. They explained how they have one each at home (the old storey) and how good they were, they turned it on and low and behold the flaming thing worked first pop!!! GRRR. Get it home, turn it on and away she goes.
They were right about one thing, it is good, it bloody works a treat, charges very fast and has a pretty good output pressure even without full charge in the
tank.
Ok, now to the staun cleaner. It's really as simple as this, there is nothing like a yellow foam spunge, dertergant and elbow greese. LOL
The mud was thick and caked on, it was black swampy mud and it was not comming off easy. Just out of interest, I switchd the air off and just used the
water, it wasn't even making it look wet. Reverted to the spunge, gave it a good wipe over, then another blast. Came up a treat.
I think really if you are going to wash your car with just
water and pressure, you need to do it straight away, not leave it to dry out and cake on for a week in the garage...
I used the engine degreaser tool and filled it with hot
water and carwash degergent, it was neat, it sprayed a hot foam like I was spray painting it. Again, would be usfull if the mud wasn't so caked on.
Now there was plenty of pressure comming out of the staun, enough to give me a little kick back when I turned the air on, and the air and
water are adjustable on the handle, so you can turn the pressure down to a maintainable level so the compressor can keep up, or you can open er right up and give a tough section a good blast, however the air pressure guage on the GMC would drop like all buggery and probally only give you 30seconds to a minute on full power, then I would just switch the air off all together and wash off the loose stuff with plain
water while it charged back up to 120psi.
The "u" bent under body washer is absolutally awsome, I thought it would be handy, but didn't realise how effective it would be. Mud and crap just comming out everywhere, and so easy to use, no more muddy
water all over your tracky pants! The other REALLY USEFUL way to use the "u" bend adaptor with the staun is to clean out your home brew kit, did it on sunday, worked really
well.
The small 24L air
tank on the GMC has good and band points to it. It doesn't last real long when you are using pressure above the compressors capacity. At somthing like 204L a minute of air coming out of the
tank, 24L only gives you a few seconds. However the good part about it is that it does not take very long to get right back up to full pressure. Even while using air on a low setting the unit was still building up pressure in the
tank, then about a minute later I could crank the air back up to full for another few seconds.
It takes a little bit of mastering, but does work very
well.
IMHO Opinion I'd give the whole kit a 9/10 for usfulness and value for money.
PS It also pumped my 10r Bridgstones up from 20 psi to 45 psi in about 30 seconds each. Not bad.