Glad to see this worked out well. Chris had a legitimate complaint, ToolNut and Rolair made it right. No one went ballistic. That's the way it should work!Chris Rosenberger said:I have been using my Rolair JC10 for about a week with a framing nailer.
I am not doing a lot of frame nailing. I am remodeling a kitchen & bath. I had to move a wall & repair some sub floor.
Just not having the compressor noise makes this compressor worth the price.
It recovers quickly but a framing nailer makes it run a lot. No problem with driving 3" framing nails.
Dan from Rolair sent me some new unused Rolair promotional items & a nice letter for the mix up on the compressors.
Thank you Mike & Dan from Rolair & Sean from Tool Nut.
Tinker said:I just came across this thread. I bought a JC 10 last year and was/have been amazed at how well it does. I have used it for everything but woodwork (I have a NOISY Senco down in my woodshop that I use ocasionally.) It is currently resting in my open barn where I have kept previous compressors, both oil and oilless. The old compressors were oil pancake to oilless 10 gal Craftsman. Not one of them could have kept up with this little JC 10. Plus the other oilless compressors drew a few complaints from a neighbor when I forgot to shut it down after use. It seems she did not appreciate being awakened in the middle of the night. The large 10 gal that the JC 10 replaced was a real PITA as whenever it got to low pressure, (filling tires mostly) I would have to drain air from the tank to get low enough to start pumping again. If i set the presure valve high enough to fill a truck or trailer tire, the fittings at the pump would pop off before geting to anything over 45#s. This little JC 10 will keep going to fill any tre i have. I have filled my trailer tires to 60#'s in just a few minutes. Yesterday, I filled my truck tire to 50 when i noticed it was squished out nearly flat with only 5#'s presure. (Load range E on a 1/2T pickup so the tire, with no load on the truck will look full as low as 20# presure) It took me about 3 minutes to get it to 50. I have used it with my air hammer for removing and resetting lug nuts on both my equipment trailer and the truck with almost no waiting period when the presure gets too low. I would say that not one of my previous larger units would have kept up with this little monster for anything needing 60#'s or less. I have not tried any higher presures.
Dave mentioned cold starting. I had to use the JC 10 earlier in the winter to blow up one of my tractor tires. I went out in 20º cold and just flicked the switch and it was ready to go. I try to not use oilless compressors when temp is so low as I am concerned about possible damage. I usually apply heat before starting it up. This time, THE BOSS LADy was in a hurry to get her car on the road and where we park and with the amount of snow, i can only use the tractor (or, heaven forbid, the machine with armstrong power and hickory boom) I was good to go with the low tire up to full presure within five minutes. It took longer than that to get the tractor engine up to working temperature.
I am sure that any compressor built by that company will perform and perform better than the competition.
Tinker
ericbuggeln said:Sean, ever since I heard the JC10 at your shop, I have been treating my PC pancake really poorly. I'm doing everything I can to finish this thing off, but it won't die. I always have to leave the area or alert HOs that I'm doing something so I don't scare them. Eric
zapdafish said:My beef with the Rolair is if I forget to turn it off after use I no longer get reminder rumblings from the garage.
[tongue]
Ken Nagrod said:I also needed to tweak the cut-in/cut-out pressure on his model to make it more usable, however Sean told me that Rol-Air is making that change to the model at the production level.
Ta2ude said:Do you think this compressor would be suitable for daily use by a roofing contractor? Just wondering if it holds enough air for multiple rapid firings 6-8 hrs a day, or would it run continuosly.
Ta2ude said:Do you think this compressor would be suitable for daily use by a roofing contractor? Just wondering if it holds enough air for multiple rapid firings 6-8 hrs a day, or would it run continuosly.
Sean Ackerman said:Ta2ude said:Do you think this compressor would be suitable for daily use by a roofing contractor? Just wondering if it holds enough air for multiple rapid firings 6-8 hrs a day, or would it run continuosly.
Definitely not. It has a capable motor and certainly is up to the task of long continuous run time but you are NOT purchasing the right compressor if you're grabbing this puppy for roofing, framing, etc. There are other Rolairs up to the task, or Emglos, etc. FYI, the new Emglo from DeWalt is redesigned to emulate the old, tried and true very popular Emglo of bygone years. Check it out.
Dave Reinhold said:I wanted to run more pressure then the jc10 was filling the tank, I can't remember what the stock filling pressure was. But rolair did change the pressure setting on the jc10. The only reason I adjusted the pressure was to run a framing nailer and get a few more shots before the compressor needed to turn on.
Adjusting the pressure in a compressor can be vey dangerous, I only did it with the support of rolair directly to the new pressure settings that the current jc10 model runs at. Adding too much pressure to a compressor higher then what the compressor is rated for could result in failure or injury.
The way the jc10 comes out of the box is perfect in my eyes. Many people have bought the jc10 after this review and I haven't heard any negative news about it.
Dave