How do you mount/secure your vertical air compressor?

[cmuncy]

I've got a 80 gallon IR compressor that I still have sitting on teh original shipping pallet. I've thought about adding casters to it so at least I can move it aroudn the shop to clean behind and underneath, but it would appear that it might be a bit too top heavy without the outriggers like the shipping pallet provides.
Other than securing directly to the floor, anyone ever done something like this?

Thanks

 

[donais]

mine is just sitting on the floor to lazy to bolt it. i can also move it with a hand truck if needed...

 

[AlanB]

I made a baby pallet out of PT wood when the original small pallet got bad.

Always mean to mount it with iso dampeners, but like so many things around the house, once I start using it, it is hard to go back and do it "right"

 

[Bird]

I thought it was customary to just leave the compressor on the pallet (as the instructions with the 60 gallon compressor I had said to do), and put it where you want it. As for cleaning under and behind it, the blow gun and compressed air worked fine for me.

 

[schmism]

all the ones i see are still mounted on the org pallet sitting in a corner hard plumbed to the wall.

 

[MrJimi]

Just move it with your forks

 

[kennyd]

I bolted mine to the floor and put vibration isolator pads under the three feet. I think casters are a BAD idea.

 

[Blagadan]

I guess braked castors might be ok? I had a set of regular 4" casters fitted to my 50L compressor and the thing had a mind of its own. every time it fired up it would move around. I bolted the casters to a 2X4 and bolted the 2X4 to the frame of the compressor.
I took off the casters since, it sits on a set of regular anti vibration damper pads now.

 

[oliver28472]

What about lag bolting it to a couple PT 4x4's and a rubber mat under them?

 

[George2615]

I just bought a new compressor (recent post in another thread). On my old one of 25 plus years the tank bottom finally rusted through. It was attached to the original pallet (when they made good pallets). The new one was attached to a cheap pallet that was larger than the space I had to put it in so I took it off the pallet and lagged it onto the pallet from the old compressor. I don't move mine and its against a wall so it never moves.

I suppose you could mount 4 swivel casters with locking wheels to the bottom of the pallet to move it. Like I said before the new pallet was cheaply made and I wouldn't have mounted wheels to the bottom of that flimsy pallet. Just make sure your pallet is strong enough or make your own out of 2x4's.