Air assist on Shapeoko Pro XXL?

[Julien]

Short answer: no, an aquarium will likely not work good enough.

Long answer in this thread (and several others):

QUIET air blast setup?

Currently, my air blast setup consists of this cheap mister: [DSC_0576] and this “quiet” compressor: [DSC_0575] It works fine, but I run a lot of jobs late at night, and the compressor is not near quiet enough, and is on all the time, I can’t take it anymore. I have read a number of threads here, that all seem to circle back to “buy a silent air compressor”. Either the one I have is louder than its spec says (can’t remember exactly, something near 67dB), or this is just too loud for me, an…

A quiet compressor is ideal, an airbrush compressor is the next best thing