UdderlyOffroad Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 A quick search shows a average single phase motor will have a Power factor of around 0.7 That'll teach me to reply to threads before the coffee's kicked in the morning. Power factor, d'oh! Anyway, to drag this thread somewhere back near on topic*, some people have improved the performance of their air tools by 'porting' them the same way you would a cylinder head. Not so much by smoothing out rough surfaces to reduce turbulence, but more opening up orifices and removing restrictions where the don't need to be any. Of course, the tool one requires to do this is a properly functioning die-grinder.... *Incidentally, I can't be alone in finding this forum's value is actually when threads do wonder off-topic. At least for the not-directly related to LR, technical stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zardos Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Also back on topic http://www.ingersollrandproducts.com/am-en/solutions/garage-solutions/maximum-impact-enewsletter/tool-tips/tool-tip-air-compressor-impact-on-a-tools-performanceis a guide to air tool performance and illustrates about how performance can drop due to pipe size and contections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superpants Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I found that on my compressor I got much better performance by removing the shut off tap it was supplied with. the tap was a screw down type with a tiny port through. I put a PCL connector there instead and instantly saw the improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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