Rolair's are awesome, but LOUD AS HECK! Makita's are good compressors, but when I wanted a quieter portable compressor I bought a CAT. Don’t know the dB specs and the air output is low, but doable. Personally, I’m not sold on the quality of the CAT compressors, but I haven’t owned one.Īnother good brand to consider is rolair. I think that 10 gallon should have enough cfm to run the impact fine (generally you want more than 5, but you can get away with a little less but look at the impact gun specs). ![]() It’s also an upright, if floor space is an issue. If you want a larger tank, California air tools sells a 10 gallon model which might be the perfect in between size. I don’t expect it to be as loud as the IR, but it isn’t going to be as quiet as the baby Makita. It’s strange that they don’t publish the dB specs on the larger Makita, but I would try to see in person or call them directly. I’ve had 9 years of light use on it and lately it’s spent 6 months trimming out a friend’s house. I had the same issue on the IR, but after that fix, no problems. The only thing I have had to do is change out the steel coupler and regulator for stainless and a fresh regulator. I have the small mac700, and the build quality is great and it’s quiet (65db or thereabouts). I’m sure it will only do it for quick bursts, but for properly torqued lugnuts it will be fine. I wouldn’t have expected that little tank to put out >5 cfm at 90 psi. It’s seen light use, so I was not happy about that. I have one and 5 years in the motor now trips the GFCI circuit it’s plugged into. It’s big and loud and for your uses, probably much larger than you need. Ingersoll-Rand Garage Mate - 2 HP, 5.5 CFM, Model# P1.5IU-A9 Makita MAC5200 Big Bore 3.0 HP Air Compressor Let me know your options! Thanks for the help I like the idea of portability if I need to go somewhere but at the same time I like the idea of a a nice big tank that won’t cause it to cycle much. The ingersol rand seems like it will be overkill for just about everything and is less portable. The makita seems like it will do everything that I need it to but will cycle a lot. In the future I may want to do some plasma cutting but that’s a couple years off. Also it will do the odd air impact tool for miscellaneous car repairs (lug nuts for tire rotations etc). It will run nailers and typical shop functions. ![]() This compressor will be based out of my shop and rarely travel out of it. ![]() So I have gone back and forth between two compressors over the last month and I am unable to decide on a direction.
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