Got The Old Compressor From My Work

no besides cutting it apart but like the idea of getting the kids making money early on in life lol pay for the college lol

If it is the right size you might can get better than scrap yard price by selling it on craigslist. A lot of people like to take tanks like that to make BBQ grills.

Just for the heck of it .... pour some motor oil into the air intake and see if that restores compression. It might be that the rings are worn but just as possible ... the metal plenum /reed thingies might be bad.

Depending on how old it is ... you might be able to get repair parts for the head.

If you don't already have compressed air in the shop it's a big step up.

I don't know how big yours is but I got a 60 gallon tank with compressor giving to me as well, sold it the next day for $40.

Please don't laugh too hard at me ....

When i was first putting my shop together i didn't have much money and i really wanted air.

I got one of those tankless Campbell Hausfeld air compressors from Wal Mart for about 90 bucks. Next i cleaned out two 100 # propane cylinders and tee'd them together with black iron. Add the two together and you have an air compressor up top and storage tanks below.

It took awhile to bring it all up to 120 psi but it did work.

A 60 gallon does take up a lot of space in the shop so i can see why you wouldn't want to mess with it. A pain to wire in to.

Seeing that the storage tank is still good it might be useful to somebody. Mount any old compressor up top and it would give em' something that would serve the purpose for not too many $$$.

You say the tank is old. That makes me nervous about anyone wanting to use it as a compressor again unless they pressure test it. No idea what that would cost but compressors these days are reasonable. I picked up a Puma 60 gallon 2 years ago for $480 plus tax or somewhere in there. Runs almost every day and keeps going. I had never heard of Puma before this but I figured for the price I'd give it a try. It's paid for itself.

I hard wired it myself. Was pretty easy.

Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper

You say the tank is old. That makes me nervous about anyone wanting to use it as a compressor again unless they pressure test it. No idea what that would cost but compressors these days are reasonable. I picked up a Puma 60 gallon 2 years ago for $480 plus tax or somewhere in there. Runs almost every day and keeps going. I had never heard of Puma before this but I figured for the price I'd give it a try. It's paid for itself.

I hard wired it myself. Was pretty easy.

It's a little off topic but you really don't have to worry too much about compressed air storage tanks. One should ALWAYS treat them with respect but they're pretty well made. Most shops aren't running over 120 psi working pressure. The tanks are engineered with a safety factor of two or three times that amount.

Propane tanks are designed with a working pressure of around 200 psi so the can be re-purposed as long as the don't have extensive rust on the bottom. Also ... reject any with dents in em'.

A water heater tank is designed for a working pressure of 100 psi so they are okay too as long as they're in reasonably good condition.

The big thing where storage tanks need to be sent out & tested is the oxygen & acetylene because they're working at much higher pressures. ( over 1000 psi. ) They drop em' in a tank full of water and pump em' up to very high pressure to test them. If they do rupture it just makes a big splash and nobody gets hurt.

Again ... always be respectful of the pressures you're working with but the rest is mostly common sense.