How do i use my air compressor?

Question

we're trying to blow up this water thing, sort of like a sprinkler, but its an elephant, and i am wondering how to use the air compressor, we have a pretty big one.

Answer 1

turn it on, press a button and you'll get all the air you want.  You might want to talk to the main operator of the compressor for some instructions.

Answer 2

Don't use the air compressor.  It's meant for low volumes of high pressure air, and you can burn it up doing things like this.

Also, you can easily over-inflate and burst the water toy.

If it has a biggish opening (1 inch or 2-3 cm), you can use a hair dryer on the "cold" setting (it should just blow air, not heat it).

Answer 3

if you have a regular blow up thing on the elephant then you can use a blower that attaches to the air hose or take a fitting off a air tool attach to the air hose and place it on the air in let on the elephant

Answer 4

No big deal except for making the nozzle of the compressor hose fitting work with the size of the water thing.

Better solution is to use a shop vac or even your vacuum machine if it has an intake and an outlet.  Shop vacs have the same size outlet as intake for their hoses.  You simply take your hose, insert it into the outlet which is usually on the side of the barrel near the top, use the wand and hold it tight to the fill portion of the air bag you want to inflate.  It will do the job in one fourth the time of a 1 hp air compressor.

I use this method for all inflatables, including the queen air mattesses that do not come with their own pumps, and also for my float tube for my boat.  Fast, easy, but you have to be close to a power source.

By the way, the same applies for letting the air out. You insert your tube on the sucking side and it will decompress your air bag quickly (as long as you do some diversion on the little flaps that are just inside the fill nozzle of the air bag).