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LAGrunthaner
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 Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:19 am Post subject: Make a power washer with air compressor? |
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Does anyone know if there is a device I can attach to my air compressor & garden hose to power wash? I would think the power of the air connected to my garden hose would make a nice power washer and I don't have the time to design one especially if there is a product or plan already out there.
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LAGrunthaner
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: Make a power washer with air compressor? |
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I'm guessing nobody has a solution?
| Linda Grunthaner wrote: |
| Does anyone know if there is a device I can attach to my air compressor & garden hose to power wash? I would think the power of the air connected to my garden hose would make a nice power washer and I don't have the time to design one especially if there is a product or plan already out there. |
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| Have you considered simply starting with a nicer bus? I don't know what your skills are, but the race is easier if you can see the finish line. If you are not a runner, don't start off doing a marathon. |
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Mike Fisher
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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No future in trying to outdo the hydraulic engineers in combining a water hose and a compressor!  Just buy a water wand if you want to get wet/greasy? You probably need a soda/sand blaster which you already have! I just drape a thin hand towel over my head/neck and hold it on with the face shield strap. Long sleeve shirt & gloves. Blast some soda,walnut shells or whatever you bought.
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LAGrunthaner
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So nothing out there? I need to clean some stuff before soda and didn't want to invest on a power washer or rent one. I keep thinking someone must have designed an attachment for their compressor.
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Mike Fisher
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:17 am Post subject: |
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You found the cheap high pressure washer, so post some before/after pics of how it and your soda/sand blaster work!
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LAGrunthaner
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Mike after doing more research I was 100% wrong on that washer because they are 2 different types of power; air compressor =high volume, low pressure, pressure washer= low volume, high pressure. Glad I didn't buy it. Time to borrow or rent the power washer. And this one had all the fittings but glad I didn't buy any of them 
http://www.guardaircorp.com/content/jetclean.html
Great info please read:
Water pressure from a utility is generally around 70-80psi.
Typical air compressor pumps are high volume - low pressure design. Say 5CFM @ 100 PSI.
Typical pressure washer pumps are low volume - high pressure design. Say 0.25CFM @ 2000 PSI.
If you point a power washer into a bucket, it would fill very very slowly.
So there is no way to leverage an air compressor pump into a power washer. Except to drive a low volume-high pressure water pump via air drive.
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| You found the cheap high pressure washer, so post some before/after pics of how it and your soda/sand blaster work! |
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DJ Bill
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| We used to have a guy that used our hobby shop that owned one of those dang things.....he would make the most incredible messes with it...Funny thing we had a great pressure washer too, but he'd rather use his goofy solvent/watergun and spread his grime throughout the entire shop. He wore greasy white coveralls too, musta liked the greasy look on everything. |
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