Gust: Air Compressor Calc

What it does

Gust answers the air-compressor questions. The Tool CFM Guide and Air Safe are free forever: 16 common air tools with their typical CFM @ 90 psi, and honest verdicts against the compressor you already own — runs, check the plate, bursts only, or undersized. Continuous tools (sanders, grinders, spray guns) are never sugar-coated: they live on pump CFM, and a bigger tank only adds seconds.

It also carries the HP truth: in 2004 the big compressor makers agreed to stop advertising "peak horsepower" — Campbell Hausfeld, DeVilbiss, Ingersoll-Rand, Coleman Powermate. Gust sizes by the number that survived: deliverable CFM @ 90 psi. Air Safe covers OSHA's 30 psi cleaning rule, tank draining (water inside is how receivers rust and rupture), and why a tank is never welded or patched.

Gust Pro — one-time unlock

$6.99, once. Compressor Match: tick the tools you own and get the one number that sizes a compressor, duty-cycle honest per CAGI. Run Time: tank gallons, the pressure band, and your tool's draw minus what the pump puts back — the minutes of air you actually have. Blowout Check: sprinkler winterizing per Rain Bird's caps (50 psi poly / 80 psi PVC, 2 minutes per zone), with an honest verdict that says "rent a high-CFM unit" when your compressor can't move enough air. No subscription, no ads, no account.

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