2.5hp 40 litre Air Compressor

What Ange said!!!!!!

Even down to the battery charger............I don't use it anymore, cos I've got 2 x 3 stage units; but it still working okay after about 24 years. Everything else from Arlec that I've ever owned has been total manure!!!!

I have a gmc unit also, and have given it a flogging, and its still ok. you can wind up the switch on mine to make it kick in a bit earlier. I bought it as a stop gap. It sprays paint (automotive and cabinet makeing) quite well. Used it to spray laminex glue, didn't go to well until I hooked it up to my old stuffed compressor wich gave it a very large storage capacity. I have had a few large compressors (well, from a carpentors perspective anyway), and if I was to set up a workshop again, I wouldnt hesitate to get about 3 of these and hook them up together. they could power a fairly large workshop, and when going out into the field, just unhook one and take it with you.

Cheers Andrew

Yep mine (GMC) had just come out of warranty (2 years) and you guessed it, it spilled it's guts all over the garage floor. Oil bleep out from god knows where all over the place.

I figured, oh well, what the hey, I've absolutally flogged it to death using rattle guns, air ratchets, air chissels, degreeser gun, pumping up tyres and the real killer, washing mine and my mates 4bys reguarly with the staun pressure washer attachment. The poor old thing has just been worked into the ground! Sometimes it runs non-stop for hours at a time.

I was just about ready to go and buy another one for $99 and thought to myself, bugger it, I'll just throw a spanner at it and tighten up all the head bolts. Yep, 2 minutes later and she was good as gold again, has been for about 2 months!

I'd Highly recommend them. Actually my mate and I were toying with the idea of buying a big truck tank or two and mounting them up on the garage walls, just hook them in series with the existing tank and you'd have enough air to run just about anything for a reasonable amount of time.

The beuty about only having a 24L tank is it charges back up to full pressure very quickly, which is good when you're using the rattle gun or air ratchet. If you're struggling with a bugger of a bolt, you just wait 30 seconds and she's back up to 120psi and you're ready to hammer back into it again!

Gday Jeff

Is the massojet with the air assist any good - I have a compressor obviously, and unlimited water. Is it a good thing?

Cheers Andrew

Yeah it's good. It's nothing like a purpose built pressure washer though as it's still only 120psi at best. But it is good, I'm very happy with it. Personally the thing that kicks but is the "U" bend attachment. It's worth buying it just for that, you'll be absolutally STUNNED with the amount of crap that comes washing off the undernearth of even a "clean" car.

>>>>Was really funny as it blacked out half the store when he turned it on. <<<<

RAOFLMAO.............hahahaha

I took one of those cheap grinders back to supercheap, when the young lady behind the counter pluged it in to check it I said hang on before she tried it then I hide behind the counter, the look on her face was priceless, she unpluged it and put it back in the box. ha ha

Yeah I gotta say, I'll swear by the GMC stuff now days. All my air tools are GMC, my sander, my grinder, air compressor. Good stuff hey. When my Firestorm 18v Cordless packed it in (very dissapointing), I bought an Ozito drill thinking that seeings as the GMC gear was so good, this must be similar. Nope. The biggest peice of crap I every laid my hands on. I took it back and exchanged it for a 24V GMC cordless drill. Holly crap, that thing can drill sideways through brick!! Closest thing to a cordless rotary you'll ever get I reckon.

My GMC grinders been abused to the crapper doing all sorts of dumb ass typical lazy aussie bloke crap. I once cut through a tow bar toung with a grinding disk because my cutting disk was rooted. Took a while, but it did it! LOL!

That's where these cheapies come into their own John. I simply can't justify buying a top shelf compressor when I would use it on average once a month. My scorpion has been going well now for about 3 years - it's also driven the nail gun for aboug 3 km of paling fences in that time as well as a bit of spray painting. At $129 when I bought it .....I'd say pretty good value for money.