What’s up everybody welcome back to my store views on this episode this
beautiful beige air compressor here is my ingersoll-rand 20 gallon garage mate
its model number is P1.5lu and I’ve waited I wanted to wait a little bit to
do this review because I wanted to get a little better at this sort of thing and
I’m still pretty shitty at it but I feel like I could do this justice now so I’m
going to tell you everything I like and then a couple minor things that I don’t
like about it let me go through the numbers first
it’s a 2 piston air compressor so those tend to be a little bit quieter than
your single single piston air compressors and it’s a hell of a lot
quieter than an oilless this is oiled as you can see there’s the oil gauge right
there it has a 2 horsepower motor and if you ever see those shop backs that say 6
horsepower peak 4 4 4 peak horsepower that’s because 2 horsepower is
the most you can get out of your regular receptacle and that was another thing
that I wanted to do that I took into consideration when when buying this I
could have spent the same amount of money and got a 60 or even 80 gallon
lesser quality air compressor but I would wanted something that was it’s got
the wheels down here and it does have a handles here’s the handle so this is
somewhat portable but I will say it weighs about 200 pounds so keep that in
mind it is this is a heavy little air compressor and that’s due to every part
of it being heavy-duty the compressor housing is all cast-iron that motor
alone I think weighs like 40 pounds and I wanted something heavy-duty and
something that would last a long time I grew up with a 20 gallon can belt haul
spell air compressor and that’s kind of would have been trying to do with my tool
collection is replicate or have a lot of the same tools that my father had when I
grew up using and this is one of those things I did compare it to the Campbell
House valve 20 gallons but they didn’t make a vertical one and because the
space is kind of limited in the shed I want with with a vertical so excuse me
the little lay down style is just as good but I like I said because of the
space I wanted to have to have the smallest footprint possible and it only
takes up about two foot by two foot instead of two foot by four foot if it
was a horizontal model let me go through all the numbers first like I said it’s
two horsepower it does 5.5 CFM at 90 psi and 90 psi is going to be your max
rating for almost any tool that you use so to achieve the achieve 90 psi working
pressure I crank the regulator up to about 115 120 so by the time here you
pull the trigger on something and the air gets moving your actual working psi
is only about 90 90 95 I push it a little bit something else that I really
liked about this one is the dual piston setup it enables it to be quieter
because you don’t have this big of a piston popping every every cycle to
compress the air you have two smaller ones that are doing the same amount of
work as one big one my dad’s I believe was a single piston and it was a good
bit louder than this this is quoted as 75 to 80 psi are 75 to 80 decibels so
normal speaking volume there’s about 65 decibels so when this thing kicks on you
don’t really have to stop your conversation I know you’ve all been in
the shop before and somebody’s got some loud ass air compressor especially if
it’s oil as soon as that thing kicks on conversation pause you you can’t you’re
screaming if you’re trying to continue it so you wait for the thing to fill up
and then you continue you pick up right where you left off not the case of this
one is not really that loud let me drain it down a little bit and I’ll let you
hear it but I will do this sorry about that shitty camera work let me uh I got to
turn it regulator up so I’m just talking at normal volume I have a lot closer to
the camera but it’s not really that loud claps silence it’s not silent buddy
means but like I said it’s quiet enough you can continue a conversation if this
thing comes on and my shed here is about the size of a tiny garage if I had a
roll-up door on it I probably could almost pull a car in here’s I think the
trunk and everything would be hanging out but in a bigger garage especially if
you put this in its own enclosure you’re not going to hear it at all it’s really
quiet all the features on it you have your your disconnect here that comes
with it it comes with oil and then here’s your regulator gauge and this is
your tank pressure gauge it comes with two air filters some of them don’t
actually come with air filters of course comes with a shroud comes with this
handle those are two nice like 10 inch pneumatic tires which it needs being
about 200 pounds was the shipping weight of this thing so it’s heavy duty all the
way around the whole compressor housing and compressor setup is all cast-iron
everything on it’s really tight and really quality I’ve left this thing for
two or three days with pressure in it which I don’t like to do but it’ll hold
the pressure right where I left it as long as nothing’s connected especially
if the hose is disconnected and there’s no there’s no leaks in the air
compressor if anything leaks it’s going to be your your your bit end of your
hose like right now as you can hear that it’s this thing this connection leaks a
little bit but pull that off nothing so it’s a really tight unit I was really
impressed of how he’ll dare in it it’s got a hole powder-coated finish all copper lines
all heatsink copper lines because you do develop heat and you compress air so it
tries to cool that down before it goes into the through the check valve into
the tank the tank is rated at like 160 psi like 140 degrees so the tank is way
way over built so that compressor it runs 5.5 CFM at 90 psi which is a little
on the low side but you’ll you’ll find house key or craftsman compressors that
quote like 6 6 + CFM at 90 psi and that’s because they run as a higher
pressure they’ll run it like 150 psi and I didn’t really care about that because
I feel like this air compressors work not working as hard as something that’s
got to go to 150 psi your rerunning higher pressures your check valve is
this is the check valve right here check valves working harder your Pistons are
working harder everything is working harder so this one is just I feel like
this one just breezes through filling up the tank it’s not working hard at all
it’s not putting stress on any of the parts that’s why I hope this one will
last as long as my father’s because is a candle haul spell he hasn’t done any
maintenance to it at all and the thing still runs like a champ I think
his uh right here the pressure switch when it drops below pressure his did
wear out after about 10 years maybe 15 years and he replaced it with an
off-the-shelf pressure switch and it’s still it’s still running fine today
that’s another thing I like about this this is all pretty much off-the-shelf
parts there’s nothing proprietary about it there’s nothing fancy about it you
need a new two piston compressor that’s a standard design and all I’m not gonna
have problems replacing that especially because it’s a well known brand that is
probably still going to make that compressor housing 30 years from now if
not somebody else does this motor it’s a standard 700 1750 rpm compressor motor
with the 2 capacitors on top of the overload on the side of it that’s a standard thing
gauges are all standard everything is a standard kind of fitting so I know even
though Square D actually makes a pressure switch for this so I don’t even
have to get that it’s probably nicer than the one that’s on there but I don’t
even have to get that from Ingersoll to two things I don’t like
about it and they’re just like I don’t understand Devon design features right down here I
have you can see there I mean get rid of this come on where is it there right there is the
drain plug now if you can tell there’s about an inch between this drain plug
and the edge of this which is something you know the oil still looks really
clean and I will eventually need to replace it but when I do there’s really
no way to get the oil out of here without getting it all down this thing
my friend has a Northstar vertical two horsepower twin piston air compressor
it’s it looks identical that I said looks like it like they like Northstar
bought one of these and then copied it is not a rebranded one as far as I
can tell everything is on it’s a little bit different it’s not just a different
colored rebranded Ingersoll but that one actually has an extension so instead of
the plug being here it comes out to about here and then
there’s a plug kind of a annoying design feature on this one but it’s not the end
of the world it you know you can go quite a while without changing the oil
in these here’s the set up a little bit different the finish on it is a lot
different and it’s got like the crinkle hammertone kind of finish looks more
durable but it will attract dust more so it’s like what you know this is powder
coated so what do you want you want it looking dusty as all the time
or you know something easy to wipe off also we down here that is the drain I
don’t know if you can tell but the bottom of the tank is domed it’s it’s
rounded like the top of it so for me to actually drain all the water out of this
I have to tilt this whole thing like a 45 degree angle if I just open that up
right now it’ll release all the air and get a little bit of moisture will come
out but for me to actually get the sitting water in the bottom of it I have
to tilt the whole thing about about that angle kind of stupid but it’s easily
accessible but it doesn’t get all the water out I wish the thing was all the
way in the bottom and I considered trying to add one to the bottom but it’s
a pressure vessel and I just didn’t wanna I didn’t want too bad I want to
screw with it you know I’ve seen a couple videos of air compressors
exploding where their pressure relief valves are malfunctioning or something
else malfunctions probably a multiple multiple malfunctions at one time and
this explodes that that compressor is powerful enough that if it
doesn’t shut off and it keeps pumping that tank off and the relief valves
don’t go and that thing goes you’re going to the hospital and you’re not
going to be right for the rest of your life you’re going to have GIMP GIMP leg
or you’re a missing an arm it’s dangerous these you work with high high
psi the height of the PSI the higher the danger value so I wanted something
reputable I wanted something not necessarily made in a Chinese sweatshop
I don’t really know where this is made I don’t think it’s the United States maybe
parts of it are made in the United States but it’s not it’s it’s one thing
that it makes me nervous about Harbor Freight air compressors and I haven’t
ever heard any horror stories about those but I’ve seen that I’ve seen the
videos of those things going bad and it’s not good it’s really bad so I’ll
tell you a little bit more about the North Star and I maybe if I had to do it
over again I would get the North Star friend of mine bought it and I didn’t
really like it too all in person I saw I had seen reviews
of it and I had saw it online for sale and it’s cheaper than this one this one
ingersoll-rand only comes with a one-year warranty
I think the tank is like a five-year warranty but the whole unit as a whole
is only one year the North Star has a three-year warranty and has a one-year
professional use warranty so if you you bought the North Star and put it in your
automotive shop I don’t know how how the they would know but it’s a one-year
professional three-year you know homeowner warranty so that’s better but
I feel like this is another another sort of thing that if you get a year out of
it and you used it quite a bit your problem it’s probably going to last a
lot longer than a year if it doesn’t get enough things there’s no defects in it
and it doesn’t the bed in a year you probably got something that’s going
to last a while so the north side is a three year warranty it’s cheaper and I
kind of like to finish on the North Star a little bit better it is a little more
durable this looks like it could scratch easier but it’s the air compressor I
mean I didn’t take any time for me to there were some warning labels down here
rip those all off put my own stickers on it I’ll show you some of the stickers
this is a local band a ballyhoo they play like a rock reggae I really like
them a lot they’re getting their get a pretty good following now this sticker
was made by a friend of a friend who’s an artist who just makes weird
stickers and if you can’t already tell this is luke rang Krang from the Ninja
Turtles in the shape of the wu-tang symbol this is a from a brewery by my
friend’s house in Richmond Virginia up here on the Shroud of the fan shroud we
have a aware up sticker that’s RC cars that’s a brewery that’s a friend skate
company go Birds RC cars RC cars got this cool reflective Klein sticker and then my NRA membership sticker on
so oh I love this air compressor it’s really good when I’m even even if
I’m using like a really inefficient tool like this shitty Kawasaki cutoff wheel
it even if it kicks on while I’m still using it I can continue to use it while
it’s trying to repress your eyes this motors rate is a hundred percent duty
cycle which means this thing to just be a running non-stop and that motor is not
going to have a problem with it it’s built to do that
I believe the North Star is only an 80 percent or 60 percent duty cycle which
is average for a air compressor because it’s only running all it’s running on
and off but this one you don’t have to worry about me it’s continuously running
if it’s supplying you with enough air for your tool keep running it can handle
it and if it doesn’t you know then while you’re you guys buy new motor but
it’s rated for 100 percent duty cycle so that’s it this thing is awesome another
thing it’s not these big pneumatic tires on the bottom which make it really easy
to move around even even if you have to drag it through some grass those are
those are a little bit bigger than most all vertical hair pressure tires so and
it’s kind of kind of funny I think one of them is flat right now I think this
one actually is like no air in it at all but easy to move around like it is heavy
you can’t be a little bitch but it’s a you know you just grab that handle and
pull it behind you and it pretty much runs over anything you pull it through
so that’s it that’s my review I freaking love it I expect this to last good
twenty or thirty years you know maybe with some maintenance maybe the motor
goes up one day or maybe I need to rebuild the compressor but it’s all
off-the-shelf kind of so it’s very serviceable and I don’t think I might
have any problems with it so I want to wrap this up and that’s my review of my
Ingersoll Rand garage made twenty Allen.
Source : Ingersol Rand Garage Mate 20 gallon air compressor review
