Air Compressor

Gdetrailer wrote:
Umm, you do realize Gardner Denver is an industrial air compressor business whi happens to manufacture "oilless" aircompressors?

Per your link in the about us section..

"Gardner Denver is a leading provider of mission-critical flow control and compression equipment and associated aftermarket parts, consumables and services, which it sells across multiple attractive end-markets within the industrial, energy and medical industries. Its broad and complete range of compressor, vacuum and blower products and services, along with its application expertise and over 160 years of engineering heritage, allows Gardner Denver to provide differentiated product and service offerings for its customers' specific uses."

Of course, they ARE going to push "oiless" solutions as good QUALITY oiless compressors that last a long time are not cheap.

It is a crummy commercial!

For the consumer end of things, oiless compressors are typically cheaply built rubber diaphragm compressors which are not going to have very much CFM of air flow, often will have a lower working pressure and a much shorter life. Now if you happen to find a oiless piston compressor (often found in 12V and cheap 120V type compressors) they have a short duty cycle time and then you have to give them time to rest and cool down and over all the life of piston oiless compressors are much shorter than ones that use oil..

Oilless compressors are not required for airing tires and with a couple of simple and effective air/water filters in place plenty safe to use with clearing water out of your water system for winter storage.

The main downside to oil type compressors is they must be stored upright.

Yes, but that doesn't make the information invalid. Oil free compressors don't need "a couple of simple and effective air/water filters," and are relatively cheap and widely available. The Craftsman he is asking about is likely oil free.