There's good deals out there on compressors if you watch for them and are ready to act on it. My mailman was talking to me at the mailbox one day and he said his father worked for Quincy compressors building compressor heads and had just retired. on the side he rebuilt old compressors. So he hooked me up and I bought a rebuilt 35-cfm compressor from him for $450.00, found a 80 gallon compressor tank for $25.00, and had a cousin that built electric 220-volt motors and got that for $150.00. So now I have a compressor that builds up air fast enough, that it even shuts down while i'm sandblasting.