Portable Air Compressor
Submitted: Thursday, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:14
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Member - David C2 (VIC)
Hi Guys, looking at buying a portable air compressor, but can't decide on a brand. Purchased a cheap one sometime ago, not good. You get what you pay for I suppose. I was leaning towards an ARB unit priced around the $340 but have been told that they have some reliability issue. Anyone had any issues here, or maybe offer another option.
Cheers Dave
Reply By: Member - Tony V (NSW) - Thursday, Apr 22, 2010 at 13:13
Thursday, Apr 22, 2010 at 13:13
David,
I have used cheap and some expensive compressors, I now have an ARB and wished I had bought one years ago.
I had the choice of the portable ARB unit but went for the mountable one as it has a slightly larger reciever that the portable unit.
ABR Sidewinder came up good in the Overlander
test
The full resluts can be seen
on the ABR web site click here, along with the
test data.
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew (QLD) - Thursday, Apr 22, 2010 at 13:22
Thursday, Apr 22, 2010 at 13:22
I was confused there for a second, until i realised you meant ABR not ARB. ;)
Andrew
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Follow Up By: Member - Tony V (NSW) - Thursday, Apr 22, 2010 at 14:03
Thursday, Apr 22, 2010 at 14:03
Andrew,
Easily done, ARB and ABR can confuse.
Just to clarify I have the A R B compressor CKMA12 which I have mounted in the rear of my 100.
not the one in a case
(Note the case unit has a smaller reciever silver tube at the top) The ARB compressor runs with a pressure switch set at 100psi, also the hose is airtight until conected to the valve giving an initial burst of air at 100psi.
Although it does not hold a great amount of air it seems to be enought to re-
seat tyre beads after repairs.
The Overlander compressor results chart is on the A B R Sidewinder web site, they also make a decent compressor which rated high on the
test.
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Follow Up By: Member - David C2 (VIC) - Friday, Apr 23, 2010 at 13:22
Friday, Apr 23, 2010 at 13:22
Thanks again guys for your input, I have purchased an ARB portable unit, just need to get out there now and use it.
Cheers
Dave
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