Hi anyone ever used a dewalt d155168 air compressor for occasional shop usage? If so how noisy? Did it keep up ok.
I have had it with my ancient IR belt drive slow recovery. It barely lets me take off 8 lug nuts cant nearly keep up with air ratchet die grinder etc. I spent nearly 1 hour cutting the heads off 2 bolts on a rusty suburban bumper yesterday, i am sure agood air supply would of cut that down to about 5 minutes.
I saw this model at home depot and read about it on dewalts site. It looks like it has decent cfm rating at 90 psi and the 170-200 tank pressure regulate down to 125 seems to make sense to me. Looks like the recovery time from 170-200 is less than 1 minute 50% duty cycle etc..
I need something fairly small. Dont care if portable though.

Any thoughts?
Ryan
http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/tool_detail.asp?productID=15014#BVQAWidgetID

This sounds very similar to the one I use now: Craftsman Professional 25 gal. Air Compressor, 1.6 hp, Vertical Tank, 2-Stage Oil Free Pump

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00916778000P?vName=Automotive&cName=Tools&Equipment&sName=Air%20Compressors%20&%20Inflators&psid=FROOGLE01&sid=IDx20070921x00003a

My oilless is very loud IMO, It keeps up fine with impact tools, but the high CFM tools Die grinder, media blasting etc it struggles. When I glass bead, I get maybe a minute of use then 5-10 min of recharge from 85PSI back to 175 psi. I am currently looking to replace mine with a 80 gal 14 CFM or higher compressor.

So your choice all depends on your future use of it.