Bird wasn't joking!!

[Soundguy]

Re: Bird wasn\'t joking!!

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( So, do I just chuck these into landfill, sell as parts on EBAY, sell whole thing on EBAY? Or, do I remove motor for some nefarious use that up to now, I do not know about?
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Remove the motor and electrics for another project.. a 5hp motor can be used to do LOTS of things.

Plumb the other air tank in with your new one.

When our upright 60 gallon compressor failed in our shop.. we bought another one and set it right next to it. the mechanic pulle dthe pump and motor from the old one, and used flexible large ID line to couple the tanks. The tanks had 3 bung fitting each... two were used for the coupling, and one was used for our 1/2 air line for the big equipment.. and the other for our 3/8 airline for the regular stuff. Takes the pump a tad longer to initially pump up the volume.. but then you have air out the wazoo..

Soundguy

 

[Villengineer]

Re: Bird wasn\'t joking!!

Plumb your old tank in line with the new one and create a mini tank "farm". Tank farms are pretty common in industry where lots of air drops are supplied from a single source. I've got a 5 gallon portable tank set up so that I can use it tied into my compressor as extra capacity, but plumbed so that I can remove it and use like normal. My compressor only has a 30 gallon tank, so it increases my stored air capacity by about 17%. Makes a enough difference when using air "hungry" tools to be worthwhile.

 

[SPIKER]

Re: Bird wasn\'t joking!!

richard:

i would do as suggested by others, make a Portable air tank out of the bad tank, keep motor for ??? later use or sell. use a T connection in -line with the NEW compressor and use Quick Couplings so you can Roll the old tank out into the field to fix low tires. all you need to do is un click the QD's. ((might need 2 with flex hose in between and a shut off valve on one side all pretty cheap and easy to find get...)


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[Richard]

Re: Bird wasn\'t joking!!

ok, so you guys are showing that you have no CLUE as to what I'm up against with the wifey...

"WHAT??? you got another one of them things??" (she doesnt' know I blew this up)

"WHAT??? you are going to have this laying around also??"


You guys have some good ideas, but I'm not sure that she who must be obeyed, will see it that way.

Me? I see a full sized industrial backhoe
Her? She sees a giant, ugly, smelly monstrosity

Me? I see an old classic 490cc 2 stroke dirtbike (fully restored)
Her? She sees an old clunker of a dirtbike, tracking mud into garage

Me? I see a rollaway tool chest full of goodies
Her? She sees another monstrosity, highly disorganized, full of oily (well, maybe a bit) and ugly tools that never get used


Start to see my point?

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[DiskDoctr]

Re: Bird wasn\'t joking!!

Richard,

I'd check Ebay for compressor (no tank or motor). I've seen them on there lots of times.

Can even watch for one with a blown motor, then you're golden /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-JC

 

[bgott]

Re: Bird wasn\'t joking!!

" I would have equated it with taking your heads off your engine, and using the battery to crank the pistons over (with no heads on top)."

I watched an idiot playing with someone else's job in a shop I used to work for blow a block to pieces doing that. It was a 4100 Cadillac that had been rebuilt at another shop that had the cam bearings come out of the bores. On those engines that means, for all practical purposes, that the block is shot. The 4100 is an aluminum block with steel cylinders that are held in by the heads. The engine had come in for head gaskets leaking to the outside of the block, that's why the heads were off, and they found the bearing problem when they pulled the intake. The customer was due in to see the bearing problem which, besides the screwed up block edges, were going to dictate another engine. Another tech, the idiot, decides that he can work the cam bearings back into their bores. That was stupid move #1, how are you going to show the customer the problem if you pry them back in with a screwdriver? He can't get them back in so he goes to bump it. Unbeknown to anybody in the shop, this was a car from yankeeland that had a remote starter installed. These spin the engine for 30 seconds if they don't see a tach signal from the distributor or computer, however this particular one worked. The starter started spinning and he didn't have a way to stop it. In the 30 seconds it spun it spit three or four cylinders and the pistons blew parts of the block all over the shop. I thought it was funny as hell, I was nowhere around it so I couldn't be blamed. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif They managed to cover the mess up with rags so the customer could just see the pre- auto-start problems and sold the motor job, they sure dodged the bullet on that one!