[Shop-talk] a question on portable air tanks

[Mark Andy]

Howdy,

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Elton E. (Tony) Clark wrote:
>> The handiest thing I did with my air tank was to replace the tire chuck
>> on the hose with a female quick connect fitting.  So out at the track,
>> back when I used to do that sort of thing, I could plug in my air tools
>> and such.
>
>
> *>>>How big a tank does it take to be really useful on air tools?*
> **

Depends on what you're doing.... I find it most useful when you need a hit 
with an impact on something that's really hard to loosen any other way 
(like top strut mounts, for instance).  Also when you need an air blast to 
blow something off.

You don't have hardly any capacity of course, so you need to use it 
wisely, but its occasionally quite useful.

Mark