By Dad, How Do I
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Here are the basics of a Craftsman 6 gallon Pancake air compressor.
It’s Portable – weighs about 30 pounds
Pretty maintenance free
You can buy it by itself, buy it as a kit with 1 nail gun and a hose, or 3 guns and a hose
Connectors – pull back the sleeve, insert the male end, then push the sleeve forward.
Safety Valve – lets air out of the tank when you pull it.
Drain valve – make sure you tighten it back up or your tank will never fill up.
Regulator – Control the output pressure – match to your tool.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
hey kids
so it’s tool tuesday and today i’m going
to show you how to use an air compressor
this is actually called a pancake air
compressor uh it’s basically just called
that because of the the shape of it it’s
it’s somewhat flat and round like a
pancake but it’s a little you know
unless your pancakes look that thick
anyway i don’t know who came up with the
name i didn’t so
anyway that’s why it’s called the
pancake air compressor it’s a portable
air compressor and it’s great to have
around your house if you um if you’re a
homeowner
it’s a little more of an advanced tool
but you know i’ve used it over the years
to put air in my tires you know you can
get a smaller air compressor for that if
that’s all you’re going to use it for
but it you know you can use it for that
you can use it for i use it for um a
nail gun for a staple gun
i’ve also used it to spray
texture on my walls you know if you get
something that’s moving a lot of air
constantly it’s not really meant for
that uh that’s why an air gun you know
you’re you’re shooting a nail and then
then you’re shooting a nail where you
know if you’re spraying spray paint or
you’re spraying
uh
you know you’re spraying texture there’s
a lot of air moving through there so
they’re not really meant for that but i
have used it for that so
uh and so i’m actually gonna be doing a
remodel of my kitchen so there’s gonna
be a lot of different videos that i’ll
be able to show you because it’s been a
while since i’ve actually
had to do stuff on my house but i
finally need to remodel my kitchen and
so there’s going to be a lot of
different things and i’ll i’ll be using
this uh as i’m doing that for certain
tasks so i thought i wanted to at least
show you what the basics of it um before
you see it in my videos so
uh and before we get started i do have a
dad joke for you you know
so when i was a kid in the united states
you used to be able to get air for your
tires for free at the gas station but
now it costs money
uh you know i guess that’s just the cost
of inflation ah so anyway let’s get
started
okay so a couple more things about this
this thing weighs about 30 pounds so you
can haul it around it’s got a nice
handle on it that you can pick it up and
carry it around
you can buy this by itself uh
or you can buy it in a kit i’ve seen it
in a kit with three guns or i think two
nailers and one staple gun and i think
that’s what i have um and then you can i
think you can buy it with one gun um but
if you buy it just by itself you don’t
get the hose so you’re going to need the
hose in order to connect this to your
tools so i think it’s worth it to get at
least one tool because by the time you
buy the hose you’ve probably paid for
the very time you buy the gun that comes
with it at least one gun uh you’ve paid
for the hose so i think it’s just smart
to buy it that way so i’m gonna just
walk you through each piece here uh and
how to connect it i’ll show close-ups
for you so that you can become familiar
with how how it works this one’s 150 psi
and each
tool will have on it
what
psi it needs to run at if you run this
this is a staple gun uh and if you it
says 100 psi on the back side here if i
ran it at
a higher psi
uh when i go to
nail this it’s going to bury that
that staple lower than you want it to so
you want to run it at the proper psi so
that it sets the nail or the staple at
the proper depth okay and i’ll show you
how to adjust that here in just a second
all right i don’t know if you can see
that it’s kind of hard to see in the
with with the light but if you look at
the back of this gun it says a hundred
hundred psi max right there
right across there sometimes it’ll be on
a label sometimes but it it’ll you know
you just gotta look for it that’s where
this one is here it’s kind of hard to
see since it’s black on black but it’s
embossed or debossed i guess you would
call that because it’s actually sticking
up but
anyway just thought i’d show you that
all right so the first thing i want to
show you is the connector and this
particular one has two connectors so
which is kind of handy you know you buy
a second hose and then you can have two
guns hooked up to it and they then you
don’t have to keep unplugging one gun
and plugging the new one in and you know
so you if you’re working on a project
that needs
uh
staples and nails or a bigger nail and a
smaller nail you don’t have to keep
popping the gun off and popping on the
other one you can just have have them
both hooked up and then use one when you
need it and use the other one when you
need it as well i think that’s a great
feature but anyway here’s how you do
this all you do it has a collar on it
okay and i’ll get a close-up of this for
you it has a collar on it you just pull
back and then you stick this one in
and then you and you pop it in just like
that
pretty simple and then you just pull
this out to pop it out okay
and then you just put it put it in pull
that sleeve back
and that’s how that works so
pretty
pretty easy right and then if i was
going to attach a gun
uh same thing you got the same type of
collar here and you just put it on here
pull that sleeve back
it’s a little harder if there’s air
pressure in it to do this but anyway
that’s how that works since there’s no
air pressure i’m not fighting the air
pressure but that’s how that works you
just slide that on pull that collar back
like that and it’s locked in
okay and i’ll get a close-up of that
real quick
just like that and here it is on the gun
we’re just
holding that back removing it
sliding it on there you go
before we uh plug it in i’m going to
show you a couple things okay
i figured i’d show this up close so it’s
kind of hard to read this but right here
it says tank pressure and that’s what
this gauge is when when we plug this in
this thing is going to go up until it’s
filled up and it should be cut off
somewhere around 150 right 150 psi
because that’s what it is okay
and then
this particular gauge is the amount of
pressure that’s coming out that we need
to regulate for the
for the tool that we’re using okay and
so you start with this thing
all the way open right it’s not doing
anything out here it’s all the way to
the left and then we go ahead and fill
up the tank so we’re going to turn it on
uh it’s plugged in and we’ll just turn
it on it’ll fill up
and then it’ll cut off once it’s up to
its up to its pressure then we’ll adjust
for that just wanted to show you a
couple things though too this is a cut
off right here this if you pull this pin
it’ll actually let the air out
okay you pull that the air will come out
i’ll show you that in just a second i
just want to show you this before we
before we actually turn it on and then
lastly i want to show you this too see
how it’s got the rubber feet as well um
that’s nice so it doesn’t vibrate all
over the place because if you ever turn
this on
it’s going to want to walk on you
so
those rubber feet help to keep it from
walking um here’s your
plug this lets out moisture okay if you
open that up it lets out moisture you
always want to make sure that’s closed
because if it’s not closed your tank
will never fill up the air is going to
keep leaking out of there okay so you
want to make that just make that hand
tight
okay
so let’s go ahead and
make sure it’s plugged in and we’ll fire
it up
okay it’s plugged in all i’m going to do
is i’m just going to flip this switch
it’s going to make a lot of noise so
i’ll probably cut the noise down for you
for this video but here we go
okay so it just cut off because it’s
right around 150 psi
okay
so that if you can see that um i’ll try
to let me see if i can zoom in on that
okay i think you can see that now where
it’s just straight up it’s right at 150
psi so it’s shut off shut off on its own
okay and so now i have air
but i kind of don’t really have air yet
because i don’t have anything right
there there’s nothing coming out so i’m
going to show you this i’m going to
attach this little
this is just the thing that um you can
spray air with right now there’s nothing
coming out it’s because i don’t have any
pressure coming out so i just need to
turn this up and you can watch this dial
move
see that dial
just just put it at 80 psi now i have
air
so that’s one of the one of the things
you can buy is this little tool here to
blow off an area for you too right if
you’ve got a lot of sawdust or whatever
so but then your thing you’re going to
lose air pretty quick compared to a
nailer because the air is flying out of
here it’s going to want to start back up
bring it back up to 150 psi
okay so that’s what that is let me just
show you this pin that i told you about
okay so here’s this pin i was talking
about that’ll release all the pressure
that’s built up in here and this is what
you want to do when you’re done with
your air compressor because you don’t
really want to leave air
uh stuck in here especially if you’re
gonna store it for a long time uh you
know if you’re not gonna use it for a
couple weeks it’s good just to let all
the air out but here’s the thing
make sure your air compressor’s off now
because if i pull this pin
while the air compressor’s on it’s going
to just keep running because it’s going
to try to fill it back up with air but
you’re letting all the air out right so
if we turn this off
and then we let this out this is loud
now
okay so it was letting that air out and
you could see the dial was going down
once it gets to a certain amount you
have to actually just manually hold it
to let the rest of the air out
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okay there we go that’s all the air and
then you can go ahead and dial this
thing back
okay so that’s what you would do if you
were going to store this for a while you
just pull that pin and let it all let
all the air out
you would just loosen this
right hold it
i’m not going to let the rest of the air
out
if you want to completely drain it you
just would do that
but then when you go to
use it again you just got to make sure
that that thing’s screwed back in
because again your tank will just be
trying to fill up but won’t be able to
fill up pretty easy you’d be able to
figure out what’s going on but that’s
you know fairly common mistake you
forget to put that
screw that back
okay
so i hope that was helpful for you i
you know these things are pretty darn
handy i remember uh
my neighbor laughing at me because i
before i purchased one i was out trying
to do some trim work um in my front uh
on my front porch because i kind of re
worked it and i was and i was out there
with a hammer tap tap tap tap tap tap
tap tap tap and he came and said rob you
need to get a air compressor um because
then you just go
to
you just go right through it it’s so
it’s so easy and fun so you you’ll find
yourself wanting to build birdhouses and
stuff once you once you buy one of these
because they’re they’re pretty handy so
so anyway i hope that was helpful for
you thanks for watching and god bless
you
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