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I absolutely love my ridgid worm drive. Might be a little overkill though

 

Sidewinder and either 7 1/4 or 6 1/2

 

I really like the Porter Cable magnesium base 15 amp saws in 7 1/4

My 8" , 10" and 16" are all Makitas

 

I love my PC 325 mag too. Sight lines are pretty good, adjustment levers are easy to use (including balde guard lever), very stable base plate. The light weight when reaching high or at awkward angles is awesome.

 

Wow. Gonna be good.

 

My local homedepot doesn't seem to carry porter cable circular saws. I saw a skilsaw for $80 that looked promising, anyone have experience with them?

 

I have a skilsaw and it’s done everything I’ve wanted it too. More than enough for home use.

 

I’ve had a skilsaw for the last 10 years. It has done great with general use around the house

 

Makita makes a better 7 1/4" than the Skil in my opinion

EDIT: I should clarify that remark , I like the Makita over the Skil brand saws I have used but I was curious and went to the Skil website and they have some newer saws in their line with good power , mag tables and nice features , so that may have changed

 

So a bit of a miscommunication meant our LVL beams aren't coming till tomorrow morning so we forged ahead on the back 1/2 of the building and removed all the non load bearing walls and stair framing



We installed a temporary double 2x10 header under the shed roof rafters to carry that roof load as the entire wall below that header will be removed for the new design of the entry bump out and also will allow the mini excavator to get into the building to remove the shale and lower the soil level on the back half of the house similar to what we had to do by hand in the front section




Removed all the floor framing in the back half of the house for the mini access and due to the poor condition of the framing

 

Will the shed roof "feature" be retained, or modfied to be less...shed-roofy?

 

Shed roof rafters go when second floor framing happens but they will keep the snow off us for now while we do the foundation work

 

Who knows anything about air compressors?

I bought 3/8 desiccant dryer with oil removal filter and a 1/2 air filter.

Do I need the independent 1/2 air filter or will the desiccant/oil filter combo will filter the air the same? I intend to use paint spray guns and a sandblaster on top of normal air tools.

I was planning on running both of them in series. Is it completely unnecessary, or will the combo filter work fine?



Also, can I run the filters horizontally with the bottoms facing towards the tank or will it interfere with the drains and/or operation?

 

I know a bit.

I'm in charge of maintaining 8, 250hp compressors.

First, dedicate a hose that is used only for the spray gun. If the hose ever had Oiled air going thru it it will screw up the paint.

Second, not many people need an air oiler. Tire shops are about the only ones that need an oiler. The rest of us can oil our tools at the point of use.

As for the dryer, use that only for drying un Oiled air when painting. The same goes for if you are doing any sand blasting. For that matter I don't think a desiccant dryer will keep up with a sand blaster. They make lots of moisture and it would soon overload the dryer.

Those need to remain vertical if you use them.

 

Thanks for the help. So do I even need the independent air filter at all? The combo filter isn't an air oiler, it's an oil and water remover.

 

Kirk beat me to it. I would use the combo and forgo the stand alone filter.
But I second the opinion about having the dessicant filter in a dedicated outlet to the sprayer. Otherwise you will be changing your dessicant way more often.

 

I'm going to assume for most air hand tools whether the air is wet or oiled or not doesn't make any difference.

I understand I need to use the desiccant filter to make sure the sandblaster does not get clogged up with moisture, would this one suffice? I will be sandblasting way more than painting.

 

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The dessicant filter should have a cfm rating on it. But from the pic I would say no. You will need a larger filter. Sandblasters use a ton of air. I only have a small blasting cabinet and it makes my compressor work it's ass off. And I do not run a dessicant filter for my blaster.

 

How big of a tank does you compressor have? 60-80 cans, I wouldn't bother. The moisture collect in the bottom and you can drain it out easy. Smaller cans, it would help, but only slightly while painting. Sand blasting, it would over load on big projects. But most likely you would have to wait for pressure to build back up anyways.

I do painting and blasting with my 80 gallon unit. I don't have any of those and see no reason.

Hint:if you have a bigger tank, put a fitting on the bottom of the tank and connect a hose to that. Use this for blowing the dust out if the shop or airing up mower tires. This makes it easy to remove the water from the bottom of the tank. Lots easier than that stupid pet cock thing they put on at the factory.

 

As for air tools caring if there is water in the air, they don't. I've actually used an impact gun that was running on water. The auto tank drain failed and filled up the tank with water. The impact gun didn't care, it didn't have the power and a huge amount of water was coming out the gun exhaust. Drained the water, Oiled the gun and its still in use.