portable compressor

[HABBERDABBER]

Here's a contraption that I've cobbled together for use in blowing out the water lines using a gas station air pump. In the image, to the right, is a Shraeder valve fitting assembly to receive the air. It uses a Camco RV hose fitting that would screw into the city water fitting, but there is no pressure regulation, just with that. So the rest of the contraption to the left filters the air flow, meters it to 40-50 psi and delivers to the city water inlet for blow out. I had most of this and used it with my home based air compressor, but the fittings on the right side allow gas station air to be used and metered.


Not elegant, by any means, but likely useful. I have busted a toilet valve once with inadequate de-winterizing coming back to the Midwest from Florida one year. All this hardware is likely 2X the cost of a new toilet valve, but there must be some value on avoiding another plumbing project.


I travel with a dinky 12V compressor and may try it sometime with this contraption.

[gbaglo]

My question, how do you know that the gas station compressor is "oil-less"?

[HABBERDABBER]

The 2 clear tubes are off the shelf filters for oil and water.

[Jeremy Kessenich]

Just tossing this out there, I've owned California Air Tools air compressors for years, they are super quiet, the one I currently own is only 59 db. The smallest one is 29 lbs, but, here goes, if you are not truly boon docking for long periods of time, why not just use an air tank? Just refill it when you get fuel.
Using it is as quiet as you can get. I get the desire to have unlimited air with a compressor, but a tank would do nicely if you aren't sitting on some BLM land for weeks without leaving. They have an aluminum 10 gallon tank that only weighs 13 lbs. I own one and it keeps full pressure indefinitely. They make a 5 gallon too.

They do make 12 volt models (also at 56 db), and I think all of their compressors are oil free.

[John in Santa Cruz]

I used to use a cheap 5 gallon 'air tank' around my driveway for tire inflation duties... but even starting with a max 120 PSI, it would only top off a couple middlin sized car tires before running out of pookah, and require another visit to the compressor to refill. When I got my Tacoma, with its 265/70R16's, it was totally outmatched, thats when I got the Viair 88p

[Farmerdoug]

Since I use Ryobi One+ tools, just to settle on a single type battery, I use the small Ryobi compressor, vacuum, radio and driver to lower stabilizers.