- Location
- NC Sandhills
At work we have a med-sized truck (F700 IIRC) that we use 2-3 times a year to haul off scrap. 362 days it just sits...I fire it up once a month or so to charge the batteries, drain the water out of the air brakes etc....
Right now it's getting full of scrap, needs emptied bad. One steer tire has a very slow leak & it needs air now before it moves anywhere...last year we called a tire shop that sent out a service truck to air it up. Giant waste of $$ IMHO.
Anyway, it has air brakes...that means it has an air pump of some sort. Our old Army 5-tons had an air hose/chuck that hooked to (a "gladhand"?) a trailer air line, so one could self-inflate...are civilian commercial trucks like this???
An extension of this question is: Could this critter serve as an air compressor (maybe have to add an external tank to boost volume?) How big an air tank do trucks usually need for their brakes? We need air for airing up tires, maybe running a blowgun for small chores, and very possibly running a 1/2" impact wrench when the pipe/pull bar is impractical, or to run a chop-saw/die-grinder every now & then...Were not talking using the air-tools all day, just once in a while.
The state's too damn cheep to buy our lab a real shop air comp, so...
What say the truck experts???
Right now it's getting full of scrap, needs emptied bad. One steer tire has a very slow leak & it needs air now before it moves anywhere...last year we called a tire shop that sent out a service truck to air it up. Giant waste of $$ IMHO.
Anyway, it has air brakes...that means it has an air pump of some sort. Our old Army 5-tons had an air hose/chuck that hooked to (a "gladhand"?) a trailer air line, so one could self-inflate...are civilian commercial trucks like this???
An extension of this question is: Could this critter serve as an air compressor (maybe have to add an external tank to boost volume?) How big an air tank do trucks usually need for their brakes? We need air for airing up tires, maybe running a blowgun for small chores, and very possibly running a 1/2" impact wrench when the pipe/pull bar is impractical, or to run a chop-saw/die-grinder every now & then...Were not talking using the air-tools all day, just once in a while.
The state's too damn cheep to buy our lab a real shop air comp, so...
What say the truck experts???