Query - Running Air Compressor on extension lead

[chambezio]

A mate wanted to do up his front gate/entry on his property. He wanted to borrow my concrete mixer. I has a ½Hp 240 Volt motor. When I dropped it off to him I told him to use the mixer near the house then load the concrete on his carryall tractor because the gate was at least 200 yards from the house. He told me he had leads that would reach the gate. I told him that it would be better for the motor to have as short a lead as possible hence my wanting him to use the tractor to deliver the wet concrete.

He did the job so I went to pick up the mixer......fast forward a year or so when I wanted to do some mixing of my own and......the motor baled up half way through the job. The motor had been damaged because the mate had mixed the concrete on the end of his 200 yard leads. It made the lending of the mixer an expensive lesson to learn

[jimfish]

I’m a chippy and have been running a peerless 14 cfm compressor off extension leads ( sometimes 2 or 3 joined together )for 20 years now and it’s still going strong. If you only need 15m I wouldn’t hesitate.

[Jim Ferrous]

Thanks for the replies, I purposely gave it a flogging for hours yesterday (harder than it will ever work) and the motor hardly even got warm.