Need help to buy an air compressor

Hi guys!
I have to buy an air compressor to be able to do the maximum on my current café racer project

So I read here and there and found nothing pertinent to make a choice!

I would do anything my project will need including sandblasting and painting.

Do you have any recommendation? What do you use?

Thank you!

This should keep up with one of the smaller Harbor Freight sand blasters:

I have a Campbell Hausefield 60 gal. compressor from HF years ago. More than meets my needs and I'll bet it will work for you.

Couldn't resist ribbing the French guy Hoof.

I use a little Hitachi I got with a nail gun and add some drier bubbles for spraying paint cheap at the box stores works great... built my 30X50 garage and working on 300' of double picket fence without a hiccup!

I use a 60 gal Kobalt from Lowes. Works great. Have a 30 gal from them as well, and it is more than sufficient, and less than $500.

I have a photo of a giant tool box that would have gone well with your giant compressor. Couldn't find it. Just about any 60 gal. tank will more than suffice.

What you have to look at is the ratings not the size of the air tank.
It has to be able to push around 10 CFM at 90 PSI for maximum results per the blasters specs.
You will be spending at least $700.00 and most will probably be belt driven two cylinder motors.

Something less may work but it may take longer to get the job done.
May be a lot of starting and stopping.
I have been looking in to the same thing myself.
See the links below.

http://www.aircompressorsdirect.com/Campbell-Hausfeld-VT6271-Air-Compressor/p87.html

http://www.aircompressorsdirect.com/Campbell-Hausfeld-VT6275-Air-Compressor/p89.html

I have been using my own diy compressed air set up for over a year now ;D ;D ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPcFf4Kc0cI

Pass, Icban I would need a samich before I got the tire filled to 150psi

Trade for one off CL i have a 26 gal porter cable and it works i paid $100 at a flea market but i prob coulda traded for one and kept my money

You set the bar by saying that you are going to do media blasting.

MINIMUM for that is 10 CFM at 90 psi. If you get a compressor that barely meets that minimum, it will do it, but you really need to have some reserve capacity. 13 CFM @ 90 psi is what you should shoot for.

Tank size? Not very relevant. The tank has nothing to do with compressor capacity. If you have a big tank, but inadequate pumping volume, you can work a little longer before running out of air, but then you have to wait that much longer for it to pump back up.

Motor size? 3 hp is the absolute minimum. (That's true hp, not the phony "peak" horsepower some compressors claim.) Even with a 3 hp motor, it's pushing the lower limit, and that motor could have a short life because it is overworking. 5 hp is ideal, and just about the largest motor that you can get that will run on 240V, single phase. Any larger, and you will have to have 3 phase power.

Ding!