[AMC-list] Hot Air, er, compreesed anyway

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Soooo,
My 25 year old Craftsman has went thru way more abuse than it was ever intended for.
5-6 years ago it developed a pinhole leak, and I drilled it out and plug welded it.
Search the archives for the stir that caused!!!
  All winter it has been gently hissing at me and I have prayed for a loose or rusty fitting.
ALAS, Babylon it is not so, my trusty steed has rusted through in another location.

  So, I really, really could use some help in deciding how many dead presidents I need to 
cut loose on a replacement. It ticks me off that years ago horizontals were easy to find in 
 a 30 gallon+ size that was not boo-koo cash. Now forget it. Price of anything horizontal puckers my privates like an icey dip in a January river....No, I have not been drinking, (shhhh, maybe a little)....

   The problem I have is it currently sits under my electric meter outdoors in a lean to, no way an upright will fit. I have some 40 odd foot of 8/2with ground so I can move it but prefer not to.

  Seriously help me make a decision that will handle sandblasting, not be noisy like an oiless etc;

  My RM is hurting, but this is a needed evil. There goes the cash for the plasma cutter.

My only remaining RM is to buy a brand spanking new 100lb propane tank $90 at Lowes, mount it upside down in the mid point of my system so it can be drained and used as storage...

  Again, with a new tank is this safe?

  It would be easier, but I cut loose of $3K of my hard earned car/personal savings to put my son in his 2002 Nissa Sentra SER, which I do not regret, but makes cash a little short for now.

  Thoughts, flames etc; what would you guys do. I have access to about $1300 quick, more will take cashing in some bonds.

   I'd even consider a 30 gallon tank replacement if possible and feasible (shiping usually kills any advantage. An oiless craftsman 30 gallon is about $30 more and I could swap my stuff onto that tank and configure the oiless as additional cfm for blasting.

  I'll shut up now, hiccup!
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"
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