84CJ7
Contributor
I know nothing of scuba compressors.
I live in a part of WI where the nearest air fills are a 2 hour round trip which makes any local lake diving (as crappy as they are) somewhat inconvenient and even better dive sites with shops nearby are somewhat inconvenient due to weekend hours and needing to get there after diving before they close or stop before diving the next time I go.
I actually expect some of the few local shops that are left to disappear eventually for various reasons.
I don't dive enough for a compressor to be practical in an economic sense, but the lack of air fills makes it more difficult to dive at all and so it would be nice to just get a compressor.
It would actually eliminate the need for a dive shop permanently as I rebuild all my own gear and drive my tanks to the hydro tester myself already.
I'm not sure what sort of maintenance a compressor needs on a time rather than hours used based schedule or what would be a good choice for my very low demand usage assuming its even possible to use them that way.
I don't really have exact numbers for you for how infrequent but several tanks a month and only during the dive season would be about right.
I occasionally see used stuff listed locally thanks to the great lakes keeping people diving locally (and then quitting) but I don't know even how to tell if something is old crap with no parts available or a good price or really anything.
So long as there is good documentation and parts availability I could handle fixing up a cheaply acquired mess.
Here is a local for sale example (neat little compact thing) though it looks fairly old to me:
Fill scuba or paint ball tanks with this Mako high pressure air compressor, has filtration for breathing air. 3hp, 220volt single phase. Have extra filter cartridge & fill hoses.$2000
I live in a part of WI where the nearest air fills are a 2 hour round trip which makes any local lake diving (as crappy as they are) somewhat inconvenient and even better dive sites with shops nearby are somewhat inconvenient due to weekend hours and needing to get there after diving before they close or stop before diving the next time I go.
I actually expect some of the few local shops that are left to disappear eventually for various reasons.
I don't dive enough for a compressor to be practical in an economic sense, but the lack of air fills makes it more difficult to dive at all and so it would be nice to just get a compressor.
It would actually eliminate the need for a dive shop permanently as I rebuild all my own gear and drive my tanks to the hydro tester myself already.
I'm not sure what sort of maintenance a compressor needs on a time rather than hours used based schedule or what would be a good choice for my very low demand usage assuming its even possible to use them that way.
I don't really have exact numbers for you for how infrequent but several tanks a month and only during the dive season would be about right.
I occasionally see used stuff listed locally thanks to the great lakes keeping people diving locally (and then quitting) but I don't know even how to tell if something is old crap with no parts available or a good price or really anything.
So long as there is good documentation and parts availability I could handle fixing up a cheaply acquired mess.
Here is a local for sale example (neat little compact thing) though it looks fairly old to me:
Fill scuba or paint ball tanks with this Mako high pressure air compressor, has filtration for breathing air. 3hp, 220volt single phase. Have extra filter cartridge & fill hoses.$2000