Christophers1247

Hi Any commercial vehicle motor factors like dingbro or fleetgaurd should have poly v belts to suit as many HGV/Plant/Forklifts use long V belts for running there ancillaries. Failing that a company that supplies parts for industrial woodworking machinery.

Hi might be to late for this now but ABAC do a line in special voltage compressors 12/24 volt and 110 volt. Here is the link to there website.My link

If you have heat available a good 20 to 30 ton press will press out anything on a land rover. but if not and you can only do it cold you will need something from 50 ton upwards. we use a Yankee YK509FAH 50 ton air hydraulic press in our workshop but they are up to £2000 for a new one but it has never been beaten. I would spend the money on quality as many of the cheaper presses may say 30 ton max but they max out at 20 ton or less.

I use either britool, facom or sealey but you get what you pay for. Sealey stuff is ok under normal use but won't stand up to any kind of abuse. Britool stuff is good (in my opinion) I work in heavy plant repair and after over 7 years of hard abuse I still have my original 1/2 inch britool socket set in full working order.

Should be fine with the carpet tiles under it. For blowing up tyres you should have a dry non lubricated supply of air as you don't want to get oil in your tyres. most of the combined air/water separators and oilers have a valve on top of the oiler allowing you to turn off the oil supply when you don't want it. or you can just fit a air/water separator and do like you said oil your tools every now and then.

The other thing you need to watch out for is how you are going to mount your compressor to the floor idealy it should have rubber feet on each leg this helps reduce noise and stops the tank from cracking which is rare but can happen if the compressor is bolted to the floor. cheap option is to sit it on a couple of layers of old carpet. Cackshifter is right about the inside hose diameter 10mm is the best for general applictaions good flow rate for tools at not much more cost. Also you can buy reducers from 1/2 to 1/4 or 1/2 to 3/8 or any other combination. I would suggest a PCL m100 female coupler on the tank of the compressor connected to a combined air/water separator and oiler with a 1/2 inlet and outlet by a whip hose with a male m100 coupler. This gives maximmum air flow rate to the tools through the water separator. its best to keep hose and coupler diameter to an optimum as close to the tool/hose real as possible. All the stuff listed can be found in any good tool shop or ebay.

I have that exact same set from sealey i paid a bit more than that for them just over a year ago. bought them to replace my sykes pickavant set that cost me silly money. I found the sealey set to be just as good as the sykes set. I have used them regularly to pull hubs and gears of plant and hgv's and they have never let me down.