Home garage compressor.

[Andy Bennett]

Aldi and Lidl regularly sell small compressors for under £100. However, they do run out of puff if you need to run them for a while (more than a minute or so). These are generally 50l capacity and low cfm rates, but I think they have started to sell higher capacity 24l versions with 9cfm air displacement so much better

I opted to go for a smaller (for space reasons) 24l unit but then for a high performance motor, so went for Draper Stormforce 3HP 24L, which was £200. However, it delivered the higher free air delivery rate I needed for my plasma cutter, of 8cfm (air displacement 15 cfm). It has never run out of puff despite some long runs with the plasma cutter.

I have been very pleased with it.

If spraying I would suggest higher capacity, if just running tools where it doesn't matter if they slow down if run for a while then the Aldi would run fine.

All IMHO


Andy