Biscuits Catylitic Converter Project

Originally Posted by freonjoe

Gus, I was wondering why you weren't using your plasma cutter to de-can the cats, forgot your air compressor was down.

Last winter I only had heat in the laboratory part of the shop, the compressor is in the unheated section. In minus weather the oil got thick as molasses making for longer starts, electric motors can not handle extra long starts.

On the Toshiba 5 hp motor as the capacitors blew replaced them. Then eventually the contacts on the start switch inside the motor burned off, this motor is repairable but the part is obsolete, to replace it I robbed the 5 hp motor from the hammer mill which went up in smoke in the first week, the start windings burned out.

I have a small compressor from a Dental Clinic that I used to keep the waste oil boiler operational which only requires a small volume of air at 14 psi.