Air compressor leakage.

[Yuri_S]

Recently I bought brand new Makita MAC2400 air compressor. Unpacked, broke it in and put it for little work. Seems everything is fine. Decided to check it for leakage, because I frequently see that people complain about that for different compressor. I switched my compressor on until it shut off by itself. It got 140 PSI. I switched it off. After couple hours I checked the pressure and it dropped to 120 PSI. During that test, nothing was attached to it, not even hoses.
Is it considered a leaky compressor? What is you experience?

 

[mwildt]

All depends, but should be fairly easy to figure out.

- Now that its winter aka cold any chance that you ran the compressor in the garage ? If so then the compressed air could cooled off resulting in less pressure.
- A simple soap solution could be applied at the drain valve etc to see if there is leakage.

 

[Yuri_S]

- Now that its winter aka cold any chance that you ran the compressor in the garage ? If so then the compressed air could cooled off resulting in less pressure.

Yep! It seems the case. Yesterday evening it was 140 and dropped to 120. I just to my garage and checked the pressure again, it is 124. Looks like temperature variations and the compressor does not leak. [big grin]

 

[mwildt]

Awesome. Nothing better than having a working tool.