Air Compressor - what to buy? now "Most Useful Tool"

[ralexander03@snet.net (Rick Alexander)]

Ron,

I kept my stick welder when the mig came to me. No particular reason except
that it had been a good tool and good tools are hard to part with some
times. I'm glad that I didn't get rid of it. There are some things that the
mig just isn't right or. Trailer repairs and other big things. When you need
penetration you usually need a lot of it. If your stick welder doesn't owe
you anything and you have the space for it consider keeping it, you never
know.

Rick Alexander

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Pieper" <rapieper@yahoo.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: Air Compressor - what to buy? now "Most Useful Tool"


> > What device is most useful in the home shop/garage?
> > (and state your reasoning)
> >
> > welder (any type)
> > hydraulic press
> > air compressor
> >
> > A good propane heater!
>
> >   all im missng right now ( and ghonna get really soon ;) ) is a
> > Bridgeport and a Lathe / CNC
>
> I have the welder, press, compressor, heater.  The compressor is the
> most useful BY FAR when taken as a whole with the various tools I have
> accumulated.  If I replaced my Buzz Box stick welder (FS, BTW, now that
> I think of it) with a 120V MIG, that'd be 2nd.  I'd die for a B-port
> and a small lathe also - have to use those at work.  Imaging making
> spacers, bushings, brackets, pulleys; resurfacing rotors...oh man, the
> possibilities...
>
>
> =====
> Cheapass Ron
> '87 Scirocco 16'Victor'
>
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