Recent content by 95PGTTech

Compressor is all back together in its special little closet and all is working well. It is quite a bit quieter without that piece of missing piston ring and the giant score in the cylinder wall, LOL. During all of this I must have killed my wifi wall mount switch from popping the breaker over...

Good news. I cut an access hole so I could see mechanically what was going on with the switch. It appeared to be working correctly. I couldn't cut much bigger without getting into the areas on the backside that were needed to mount the switch and the capacitors tight. I then drilled some...

something like this? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KLB862G/?tag=atomicindus08-20 or https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XZ9KGKC/?tag=atomicindus08-20 guess it's time to go take a caliper to the shaft. guy on marketplace is selling the same model compressor for $80 because "runs slow". I'll get more...

I'm really striking out on this part, craftsman manual and exploded parts diagram don't give any individual motor parts it is serviced as a unit. I was a lurker on this forum but actually ended up posting here because I searched for a part number that came up with a different thread here of a...

Thanks to you guys I have my smoking gun...the contact portion from the centrifugal switch. I got the broken screw out and replaced it, mounted very solid. I believe it is old/worn and it is not making connection (complete circuit) as it should when motor off and first second of start up. All...

Awesome video. I guess that is the centrifugal contacts then. It makes sense now, when the motor is off and the switch is in the OUT position it would depress that switch on the cover and connect the cap to the motor. When the motor spins and the centrifugal switch spins in, it would...

Right, I retested on the bench and got ohms of 1.0, 2.3, and 3.3 which makes a lot more sense. All the testing things I could find said that the two lower should add up to the highest or pretty close. I think I was testing it with the thermal contact still installed so it was reading it as 0.3...

Some more “progress.” I’m not entirely sure it is a centrifugal switch (second pic) because there are absolutely no wires going to or from it and there is a plastic sleeve between it and the motor shaft so it can’t conduct through that. Internally the motor looks slightly worn but fine. No...

I don’t disagree, but the owners manual calls for a 15a circuit minimum, probably because this thing isn’t 2hp like a lot of them are using inflated sales numbers. Regardless, I have the motor off the unit on my workbench with no load on it.

Tested it on another 15a circuit in the garage (not dedicated like the compressors is) and a 20a dedicated welder circuit. Same results.

The motor and compressor are built together on these cheap units, but I have removed all the “air compressor” aspects of the equation - I am literally spinning an unloaded empty shaft and having the same start run for 2 count and die condition I had with the entire unit assembled. I removed all...

I don’t believe so I ordered a clamp on ammeter I love justifying tool purchases. I hope to “prove” the motor has aged and is overdrawing the circuit...or disprove that and have more ammo to suspect a short

craftsman 919.167320 2 hp 33 gallon, probably 10 years old or more 15a 110v dedicated circuit, been working fine on this for 2 years problem: motor starts up, runs for about a 2-3 count, then pops 15a breaker. this winter, the compressor started to not build air pressure (any) even when...