Recent content by MDchanic

Damn, that's the bee's knees, Don. Even with no body work at all. - Eric

Please feel free to point out the flaky rust... - Eric

Why thank you. That's what I say about my wife. But then she hits me for some reason. - Eric

Don did a fantastic job, but it's not my style. In general, my stuff looks well used, but works, or is in pieces, and "I'll get to it one day..." If it isn't working, or on some reasonable road to being fixed, I won't keep it. - Eric

Au contraire. The underside has surface rust, presumably because the previous owner only repainted the top. Unfortunately, I did not take this photo with the intention of capturing every detail of the bottom of the tank — I lay down on my back quickly to catch the water spray before it bled...

I've killed nuns before. I will kill them again. - Eric

There is no flaky rust at the seam or the rivets. Because, much like his wife, you can read his mind and know what he's thinking. Even if you're wrong. Cylinders clean with no scoring, rust, or ridges, pistons shiny, bearings shiny with no play or signs of wear. In case you were...

Thank you. - Eric

See, that is what I was interested in hearing about. I'm not about to ask Joe Blow down the street to weld it, but I would expect that qualified people do exist, if only because there is old equipment still in operation, and someone has to keep it going. Now, FireBird, I'm NOT asking you...

Which was pretty much what I had figured from the beginning, but, you know, figuring and finding out with some degree of confidence are two different things. Seems I can get a new tank made to my specifications for about a grand, so, who knows, maybe one day I'll do that. As for now, though...

True enough, Tommy, but I wasn't criticizing others for responding, just trying to limit unnecessary posts that we all have to wade through. We've all had the pleasure of reading threads consisting of post after post from people who have "heard" or "read" that something is this way or that way...

Well, yeah, but even cooler if I can flip the switch and it turns on. I did some checking, and it looks like I can have a fairly exact replacement tank custom made for about a grand. Considering I paid $200 for the compressor, paying five times more for the tank seems a bit steep, so for now...

Exactly. It was well built, has been properly maintained, and still works fine. My question was specifically about repairing a very old construction technique, which I thought could be fixable while more modern ones are not, but I can see that the universal response is that it is not, and also...

It would have helped. I have no way to sort out the experienced from the creative. You didn't waste my time. Your response was reasonable, though I'm probably not going to have a tank made (I'll probably just route the output to the air system and use the tank on the "big" compressor, if I...

I'm sorry. At the beginning of my first post I wrote: I have read other threads on this subject, and I knew that the peanut gallery would come out one by one, each to provide me with his infinitely valuable personal opinion, based on what he read on the internet, or what his buddy told him...