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Posted by mshaffer on November 16, 2009, 11:45 am
Hi, I bought an old air compressor on ebay, to hopefully use when
excavating my koi pond. I don't know anything about these things. I've
worked on cars/engines a lot but this thing is so old I don't
recognize a lot of it. Does anyone know a forum or newsgroup where I
could talk to someone who knows about them?
Here are some pictures,
http://www.shafferm.com/compressor.html
Thanks,
Michael
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Posted by Existential Angst on November 16, 2009, 12:45 pm
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> Hi, I bought an old air compressor on ebay, to hopefully use when
> excavating my koi pond. I don't know anything about these things. I've
> worked on cars/engines a lot but this thing is so old I don't
> recognize a lot of it. Does anyone know a forum or newsgroup where I
> could talk to someone who knows about them?
> Here are some pictures,
> http://www.shafferm.com/compressor.html
Holy shit.....
rec.crafts.metalworking peeple know a lot about compressors, but I think
this may baffle them too!
Is this an air compressor or some kind of pump?
If it's an air compressor you wanted, why not buy a Husky or equiv. from HD,
with a long extension cord?
The Husky cast iron air compressor (26-30 gal) is a great compressor -- so
far.
How much did you pay? Shipping?
Ingersoll is a well-established company, they proly have a manual for it.
Hopefully an old-timer tech is still there. :)
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> Thanks,
> Michael
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Posted by Bob F on November 16, 2009, 1:31 pm
Existential Angst wrote:
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>> Hi, I bought an old air compressor on ebay, to hopefully use when
>> excavating my koi pond. I don't know anything about these things.
>> I've worked on cars/engines a lot but this thing is so old I don't
>> recognize a lot of it. Does anyone know a forum or newsgroup where I
>> could talk to someone who knows about them?
>> Here are some pictures,
>> http://www.shafferm.com/compressor.html
> Holy shit.....
> rec.crafts.metalworking peeple know a lot about compressors, but I
> think this may baffle them too!
> Is this an air compressor or some kind of pump?
> If it's an air compressor you wanted, why not buy a Husky or equiv.
> from HD, with a long extension cord?
> The Husky cast iron air compressor (26-30 gal) is a great compressor
> -- so far.
> How much did you pay? Shipping?
> Ingersoll is a well-established company, they proly have a manual for
> it. Hopefully an old-timer tech is still there. :)
I think this is few classes bigger machine than the Husky you propose. Probably
wants it to run a big air hammer.
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Posted by Larry W on November 16, 2009, 4:03 pm
Ingersoll-Rand is still in business. They very well may have service
literature available.
Looks like an a old Continental 4 cylinder flathead "Red Seal" engine,
very common on industrial equipment years ago. From what I can
see in your pictures, I'd guess the compressor to be a vane type.
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Better to be stuck up in a tree than tied to one.
Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar.org
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Posted by The Daring Dufas on November 17, 2009, 1:00 am
Larry W wrote:
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> Ingersoll-Rand is still in business. They very well may have service
> literature available.
>
> Looks like an a old Continental 4 cylinder flathead "Red Seal" engine,
> very common on industrial equipment years ago. From what I can
> see in your pictures, I'd guess the compressor to be a vane type.
Could it be a Waukesha engine? My dad had a small WWII army
surplus bulldozer that had a little four cylinder Waukesha
that looked a lot like the one in the pictures.
TDD
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> excavating my koi pond. I don't know anything about these things. I've
> worked on cars/engines a lot but this thing is so old I don't
> recognize a lot of it. Does anyone know a forum or newsgroup where I
> could talk to someone who knows about them?
> Here are some pictures,
> http://www.shafferm.com/compressor.html