Recent content by Zeke60

Has anyone seen a fastener like this before? I was trying to remove the casters from a dolly cart to give it some R&R and encountered this fastener which seems to have no normal means of removal. The head look like a carriage bolt head, and the shaft is threaded, but the nut looks more like...

OK, thanks for your replies. My latest results are that I disconnected the 1/4" copper line at both ends and plugged both connection points with brass plugs. I ran the compressor until it reached 40 psi tank pressure and let it sit for 1 hour. There was no sound of air leakage as before and no...

OK, I understand your point, thanks. Am I correct in thinking that the only real way to test that, on this compressor in its current configuration, is to try plugging both of the connection points of the copper tube as I described, then run the compressor a bit to build some pressure, stop it...

Thanks for your help. Here are some photos. What I am thinking of doing is removing the copper line between the tee below the pressure switch and the inlet tube,and then inserting brass plugs into the two connection points to prevent the leakage back through the compressor. The pressure switch...

Thanks for your reply. There is a fitting in the top of the tank, at the "output" end, to which a tee is connected, the straight-thru tee connection is to the pressure switch and the right angle tee connection is for the 1/4" line that passes to the other end of tank ("input" end), and connects...

I have an old Kellogg American compressor, model 321, I believe. There is one feature of this compressor that I do not understand and don't see in the online photos of other similar compressors. There is a tee connected between the tank and the pressure switch, and a 1/4" copper line is...