When I was in the garage business, they kept air pressure at 180 PSI so you're not likely to damage your tools with a home compressor.
As for the regulator, I don't know of a way to read it without sight. Since all regulators are not created equal, you'll have to play with yours to see which way increases pressure. Usually on the ones I've used it's counter clockwise. Go to one extreme and plug a tool in. Then go the other way to see the change. I like lots of air pressure so for my car tools I've got the regulator backed all the way out, and I'm not going into how to increase the pressure setting for the shut off switch but I have mine cranked up a little more than stock. Compressor is 9 years old now so it hasn't complained yet. And I got more than my money worth from it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Hecker To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:49 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] regulating air flow Is there a way for a totally blind person to figure out how to use the air regulator on an air compresser? I know it's a dial you turn, but there is a gage which I assume tells you the air pressure being fed to a tool. So lets say a tool uses 75 to 100 psi. Can you tell when the air pressure is in that range? I'd assume if the tool works, then it's in the correct range. But I wouldn't want to damage the tool by providing too much pressure. Also, which way increases pressure, clockwise or counterclockwise? Thanks for any info. Shane [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
