Quote Originally Posted by Rocky72
All I would be doing is sanding and painting ............Rocky
You need to make the decision that works for you, but just for the sake of all other curious parties who might read this, as anyone who's done sanding with a d.a. and a small output compressor has learned, it doesn't take long to get way ahead of the compressor. For the very casual worker that just means you stop working (kill your momentum?) until the compressor catches up. Then play that game all day. As for the painting let's assume you'll use an HVLP gun so that you get more efficient transfer rate (in other words more paint on the car than on the floor) of the very expensive paint. The H V part of that description stands for High Volume (of air). Again, you can play stop and catch-up, but if you're painting a whole car that's a real pain. Then there's the moisture build up from a contantly running compressor..........................