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Today I set out to do some cleaning in the shop but didn't get very far with that. Instead, I removed the compressor pump
from an air compressor that has been sitting outside since fall. As luck would have it, I had all the parts and pieces needed
to make one compressor out of two. The pump I used was powered with a 1725 rpm motor(defective) and the
tank I installed it on had a 3450 RPM motor. A somewhat smaller pulley was located in one of the sheds so used that.
The pump was mounted on a 5x6 in piece of 3/16 steel. I threaded the plate and welded on some bolt threads
and ground the plate flat on the bottom. The plate was welded on to the existing plate which was too thin to easily
mount the pump.
Removing the compressor pump out in the cold was the hardest part......
It's not much of a compressor but will be good enough for airing up tires and smaller jobs. There was no intake air cleaner so I made up one
out of a piece of aluminum tubing and a bit of ingenuity thrown in for good measure. Also the drain bung was all beat up so had to do some
silver soldering to make it usable.
Maybe tomorrow I will get some cleaning done.
from an air compressor that has been sitting outside since fall. As luck would have it, I had all the parts and pieces needed
to make one compressor out of two. The pump I used was powered with a 1725 rpm motor(defective) and the
tank I installed it on had a 3450 RPM motor. A somewhat smaller pulley was located in one of the sheds so used that.
The pump was mounted on a 5x6 in piece of 3/16 steel. I threaded the plate and welded on some bolt threads
and ground the plate flat on the bottom. The plate was welded on to the existing plate which was too thin to easily
mount the pump.
Removing the compressor pump out in the cold was the hardest part......
It's not much of a compressor but will be good enough for airing up tires and smaller jobs. There was no intake air cleaner so I made up one
out of a piece of aluminum tubing and a bit of ingenuity thrown in for good measure. Also the drain bung was all beat up so had to do some
silver soldering to make it usable.
Maybe tomorrow I will get some cleaning done.