Senco PC1010 1/2- Horsepower 1-Gallon Matte Finish and Trim Portable Hot Dog Air Compressor, Gray/Red

Inexpensive - costs about the dame as my tire inflator that died - quiet about as loud as a aquarium pump - well made - came undamaged - started pressured up to 120 PSI or so quickly - with 25 foot hose takes longer but thats to be expected - for the price you cant go wrong. Yes I would recommend. Note: Does not come with hose and this thing gets hot as expected its 110 in the shade in Tucson.

Purchased from Amazon using a gift card....transaction and shipping could not have been smoother. I gave SENCO a try based on other comments I have heard about the quality of thier tools. I have been using it for about 4 weeks doing small trim jobs and putting in pre-hung doors. And it performs great! I usually have it set to about 65PSI for my trim/brad nailers and I get about 9-11 shots before it kicks on to refill the tank. Very quiet and very light for quick, inside jobs. I can be a room or two over from my napping toddler and he sleeps right thru the tank refilling. I think the gun driving the nail/brad might be louder. The only thing I wish SENCO did different was built a roll-cage type enclosure for the pump and assocated electronics. The Dewalt models have this feature and I think it is a worthwhile idea. Overall, an excellent purchase....

Im an aging finish carpenter. My younger colleague showed up with this cute compressor to run his pin nailer for a kitchen cabinet crown installation and it seemed to do fine. So I bought one to save my aching body some of the pains of portage. I figured that since Im a guy whose colleagues have always teased about doing damn nice work---and not much of it, it would be perfect for my slow pace and intricate work. However, handy as it was to lug on site, it didnt seem to keep up very well, possibly due to a leak I could not locate. It also seemed to make a very tinny sound when running --- I kept feeling like Id discover a loose fastener somewhere in the motor! Anyway, I didnt spend the little money involved for the privilege of doing detective/mechanic work, so I returned it and looked into other options. Glad I did! Bostitch offers a similarly designed model with only slightly greater size and weight, but twice the technical specs across the board. I bought Bostitch Trim Air (model CAP1512‑OF) for about $120 at Menards. (Oddly, this in-store price was much better than any I could find online!) Absolutely great little compressor, readily keeping pace with my pin nailer and my Senco Finish Pro 41 finish gun. These little compressors kick on a lot by design (tiny tank), but this one really gets the job done. BTW, the young guy who bought --- and is generally happy with --- Senco PC1010says he wished he had found the Bostitch before he bought the Senco. And FYI, this current review is from a professional carpenter who has stuck with Senco for all air guns for four decades. BUY BOSTITCH CAP1512-OF.

I purchased this item from Amazon about a year ago. Ive used Senco pancake compressors for construction projects. So, even though I know Senco is more a mere brand now, I thought Id give this little puppy a try. I had a project at home where a window AC unit was next to the range. We left it in the widow over winter, and frost from steam from the range would gather around the AC. Then it would sort of melt, and the sill got really warped. I borrowed a brad nailer and a finish nailer, and the little Senco handled driving probably 40 nails perfectly. I found it drove 1-1/2 finish nails all the way, even until cycling on. But I had the output pressure at 125 psi.. I also use it--at a lower pressure--to blow dust out of whatever is dusty. I think it weighs about 20 lbs. So, you can haul it anywhere with one arm! If youre going to blow out electronic chassiss then you have to buy and install a trap/filter. Otherwise, youll make a mess. There are certain weak points that necessitate special care, such as draining the water from the tank with no more than 10 lbs. of pressure in it. Saves the valve over time. But they could have just used a different valve! The safety precautions are basically absurd, because it would take all day to properly observe them, and they amount to nothing but illegitimate blame-shedding from manufacturer to end-user. Im just not going to put on safety goggles when I breech a ten-foot radius from the compressor. But the thing is so small for a piston compressor that it can pass for cute.

This is a great compressor. I install cabinets for a living and this compressor does everything I need. It is light weight and has plenty of pressure. I have bought two over the years and highly recommend it.

I bought this originally for my office so we can blow out the inside of our pcs and workstations from time to time. Ive managed to find more use for it too. We recently started dismantling pallets and this has worked great with our pneumatic denailing gun. Although I didnt particularly count how many pulls I got before it would cycle the motor, it was enough that I could usually get through a plank and let it recycle while I get the next one. The weight makes it really easy to tote around.

As others have written, this unit is lightweight and quiet compared to slight larger compressors. I have a craftsman 1.5 hp compressor that is heavy and rusting away and it is much louder than this senco unit. Because of its low cfm, it forced me to consider if it was too small for my Bostitch trim nailer which seemed to require much higher cfm. Turns out the nailer cfm rating were for 100 nails per minute! The only application I have seen at that rate is a mexican nailing on a roof. If one is carefully nailing trim, a rate of 5 per minute is more likely. Upon using this compressor and the nailer, I found it worked just fine. It will probably work for larger nailers also but will not work for rotary power tools and the like that require continuous cfm. Also I found senco support to be quickly responsive. I went to their web site to download a digital copy of the manual and found an out-of-date version. I filled out their web form on a Sunday asking for the newer version and had it in an email before noon on Monday. Hard to beat.

This air compressor is incredibly compact, sturdy, reliable and above all QUIET!!!! I bought the smallest compressor Lowes hardware had to offer (Blue Hawk 2gal) to check the volume against this one and this compressor is noticeably more quiet. If you have small air projects or you are a modeling enthusiast, BUY THIS COMPRESSOR! I originally bought a Iwata Silver Jet compressor with no tank for MORE MONEY and it is complete trash compared to this beauty. Now the 1 gal tank is not huge, so after 15-20 minutes of airbrushing it is going to kick on to build the pressure back up. This is not a problem since it wont vibrate your work area or create a lot of sound. This probably wont fill your car tires quickly, this probably wont be great for doing a full job involving trim or staples. I have no experience using it for those purposes, BUT THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT, INFINITELY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER MODELING AIRBRUSH (unless it is magically silent...but is it really worth the extra money?). My current rig includes a Iwata Eclipse CS Airbrush: http://www.amazon.com/Iwata-Medea-Eclipse-Action-Airbrush-Gravity/dp/B000BQKFAI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396296116&sr=8-1&keywords=iwata+eclipse Image Dual Action Airbrush ($17 chrome airbrush...its good for a quick color): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0065ALBSO/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Craft Airbrush Spray Booth (UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME, YOU NEED IT!!!) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZH7RSM/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Senco 1 Gal Compressor (THIS ONE) Darice Airbrush Holder http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GXBXY4/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Airbrush Depot Regulator (this attaches to the holder mentioned above and allows you to change the air pressure at your work station. This way you can keep the compressor as far away as you like. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00171BFKK/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Hope this helps!

I mostly use the compressor for airbrush painting and it works quite well for this. I also have another brand of small air compressor that is quieter and pumps up quicker than this one but it is 9 pounds heavier and that makes quite a bit of diffierence if I am moving the compressor very far. I use the compressor to also air bicycle and car tires, so I do like the flexibility of moving it. I keep the other one at my primary residence since it is quieter and pumps up quicker. This one is in my Florida home where I spend less than 4 months of the year.

This little guy is great for most jobs. It is light weight, small, relatively quiet and packs a punch. It is much more portable and quieter than my big tank. If you dont need to rapidly fire dozens of nails at very high pressure in a very short period of time it is excellent.