Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I read several reviews knocking its air holding capability if left full. First, tighten valve on bottom of tank. It is installed loosely and needs to be tightened before first use. Second, I generally do not leave air in my compressor tanks for long periods, but if you desire to do so I would turn the line pressure valve all the way down so the only thing holding air is the tank. I tested this just to verify the complaints about this compressor and it has been three weeks now and I have not lost a pound of pressure with the line valve closed. With the valve open the air line does seep air slowly and would drain the tank in about 4 to 6 hours down to 30 pounds. This tells me the fittings are either not tight enough or not sealed properly. If you want to go all out order some Harvey seal for gas lines as Compressed air is a gas and seal the threads on all of the connections. You want cheap fix use Teflon plumbers tape on all connections. Saw complaints about using for large off road tires. So this how this set up works. If you have tires or anything that requires 85psi to fill you need a compressor that can generate 170psi or more. Why? Because the pressure will equalize meaning if you have this compressor that generates 150 psi it will equalize at at 75psi which means it will be very difficult to pressurize a tire over 75psi. The only way to prevent equalization is to use a one way valve nozzle to fill the tire. Almost all air compressor lines are a two way or open closed valve meaning if you exceed the pressure in the tank the air will flow back to the tank from whatever you are trying to inflate. It is not to say you couldn’t fill a tire to85psi with this unit it means every time the pressure drops to 90 in the tank air will start to flow back and force the compressor to continuously recharge the tank. This means you must stop inflating and let it fully charge repeatedly until you reach your desired pressure. Overall this is a great portable unit for tires, inflatable balls, impacts (if you don’t mind it running) air wrenches and air hammers. It is a 6 gallon tank, using air tools will make this run almost nonstop because of this size tank. I only had an issue with an axle that was rusted on and I needed the air hammer continuously for about 15minutes. I had to stop several times and let the tank fill. But I expected this as it is 6gal not 60.