How much do air compressors cost?

[Psytherium]

Anyone have a faq or something about air compressors?

[mobius]

If you're referring to one that can fill an HPA tank for paintball, they are incredibly expensive. I think somewhere in the $10K range. A regular shop compressor won't work, as they only have an operating pressure of about 140-190 psi.

[ZapTheMad]

http://search.ebay.com/paintball-compressor_W0QQsosortpropertyZ1

[jesseyo13]

not anywere near 10K. My local shop is looing into a brand new one for 3250$. It only fills to 3500 though.

[Psytherium]

Is this thing for real? a hand pump that fills to 3000psi? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...686232856&rd=1

[jesseyo13]

Ive heard from a friend that it takes 20 minutes to fill just one 68/3000 up. It would be worth it if you played in your back yard though. When you are on a brake just sit down and pump. It would be very easy to mount a motor onto the pump rod too if you had acces to the right stuff.

[Kaizen]

Does That Hand Pump Thing Really Work!?!

I took a look - if that works that would be great!!!

I couldn't find any reviews for it; nor could I find it on google...

Any help would be a plus!

Thanks

[RTC_LoKi]

yea i saw taht too and thought it was a great idea but not for $250...

[sneakyhacker420]

a good compressor that'll fill up to 4500+ usually runs a few grand

my field, BFG has an electric-powered one (they needed to run some pretty big high-voltage lines) and it'll fill up to 6000 psi

that compressor ran them $11k right there

then theres the cost of cascade tanks, the wiring, and all that


but they do make smaller ones, but nothing that an individual can truly afford

[GoatBoy]

I've mentioned that hand pump a long time ago. Nobody seemed particularly interested in the idea.

They can be found for about $200 new on the web.

They also make a compressor based off that pump, and it's about $1k (I think I've seen it for as low as $800).

http://www.airgunsofarizona.com/FX%20EZ-Air%20Compressor.html

It shuts off at 3k PSI though. You could be sneaky and squeeze a little more out of it I think.

Issues I have been unable to find information on are dehumidification and filtering of the air. I can't tell if their filters go on the input to the device, or on the output. Naturally, I would prefer them on the input to the pump.

[trains are bad]

Why?

Seems to me like you'd get a lot more moisture out of the compressed side. I'd totally buy one if someone would convince me that they're for real.

[GoatBoy]

Why?

Seems to me like you'd get a lot more moisture out of the compressed side. I'd totally buy one if someone would convince me that they're for real.

I think it's safe to say it's real. These things are used for pellet guns that use compressed air. It's not like compression is a complicated science.


As far as the filters, I'd want to be able to keep things nice and clean before they entered the pump, for the purposes of... protecting the pump itself?

[trains are bad]

I think it's safe to say it's real. These things are used for pellet guns that use compressed air. It's not like compression is a complicated science.

Yeah but is it practical? How big are the air chambers on these airguns?

My tank is 68cu.in.

[GoatBoy]

Yeah but is it practical? How big are the air chambers on these airguns?

My tank is 68cu.in.

From what I can tell, not very large at all. They're still removeable cylinders, but nothing near the size of normal paintball stuff. From eyeballing things, they're not even close to the size of my 13ci tank heh.

It probably does take a LOT of pumping to fill a 68cu bottle.

On the flipside, they say they've filled a scuba tank with the liquid-cooled electric model. I can't find the review though; I'm assuming they didn't fill it starting from 0 PSI.



I can see the hand pump useful for 2 things: piddling around at home, and topping off a crappy field fill. I wouldn't attempt filling an entire bottle from zero with it.

[Jaremy Rykker]

No. By all reason, they probably started filling it at 14 PSI.

As far as it goes, I'd be interested in one of those hand pumps. If it takes 20 minutes to fill up a 68/30, I could fill up my 48/30 in 15 minutes I'm guessing. Could somebody give us a review of how they work, and where other than ebay to pick one up?