My experience with 100′ hoses have been the Flexeel poly style, in a 1/4″ ID. It seemed to work out just fine, but I was talking to someone else recently and they couldn’t believe it, and said I should be running 3/8″.
Has I missed out? I know 1/4″ works through experience, but if better results are to be had, I would drop the extra money for it.
Anybody have experience with both?
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3/8"
think the same as undersized extension cords and voltage drops..
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Ditto.
With low cfm tools like nailers you might never see a pressure drop from 100' of 1/4", but higher consumption tools like sanders/grinders will definitely starve.
awwww swell...
the fabeled dead message..
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lol, sorry to waste yer time. I originally posted my replay above to you instead of the OP, so I killed it.
till somebody posted to me in this thread that deleted posts would show up as an unread...
no promblemo...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
OK, maybe that's why...pretty much the biggest air tool I use is a framing nailer. I don't even have a compressor with a large enough capacity to run a sander.
Do you run out of air? If not, no problem.
If you are just running a nailer 1/4" should be fine. It is when you get a hungrier tool that hose size starts biting you.
Yes, that's my experience too. I regularly run a single tool on about 200' of 1/4 hose. My compressor lives in an outbuilding while I run around the property with various tasks.Scott.Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.â€
1/4" is fine. I've been running them for 20 years using 3-4 framing guns.