Air Compressor enclosures???

[vettebrett]

I want to see what everyone has used for an enclosure to protect their compressors from the elements. Lean too, seperate building, or just outside, anything outside where it is not as noisey as it would be in a garage.

 

[gary whipple]

 

[imported_banzaitoyota]

Right now, just a lean too; PLans are to enclose the new lean too.

 

[69lkmno]

Got this shed at Sears for $399.00 when it went on sale and plumbed it with Garage Pak 2 bay system.

 

[imported_banzaitoyota]

^nice solution for the surburban setting

 

[maa139]

I just have a teeny little compressor, and it's in the corner of the garage. It's loud, and I'm planning to build an enclosure right were it is, but honestly the noise doesn't bother me. Also, even though my garage is attached, you can't hear the compressor in the house when it's running. It's the little red thing in the back corner of the bump out...

Matt

 

[bmwpower]

All this talk of enclosures has got me thinking... What do you do in the winter? How about the summer?

In the winter, the compressor oil will be too cold, maybe even too cold to start.
In the summer, the compressor will likely run too hot in an enclosed area.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

I want to see what everyone has used for an enclosure to protect their compressors from the elements. Lean too, seperate building, or just outside, anything outside where it is not as noisey as it would be in a garage.

Depends on what type of compressor you have. Oilless ones are VERY noisy, generally turning at highter RPM, having aluminum pumps and being of lighter construction.

Oil filled aluminum pumps are somewhat quieter, but still generate a fair amount of noise.

Cast iron oil filled pumps are very quite in compairson to the above types, and generate most of their noise from the air intake filter. Silence the intake, duct air to it from outside or elsewhere, or whathave you and you will solve much of your noise problem.

Someone here a month or so ago posted a pic of their compressor which was bought with a sound proofing box build around the pump and motor (factory installed) and this is surely a workable solution as long as it gets enough air for cooling and the pump.

Charles

 

[z28toz06]

The biggest worry about outside vs inside besides sound is moisture. I think I'm going to put mine inside despite the noise. I will pipe the intake outside as that is where the most noise comes from. If its still loud I will box it in and sound proof it with foam or something.

 

[REFLEXX]

I want my air compressor to be SILENT. Here are my plans.

It's an 80 gallon, four piston CH unit. Cast Iron, but still makes more noise than I like. It will be running in the middle of the night and I don't want to PO the neighbors.

1. Small concrete pad with anchor bolts sticking up to attach the compressor.
2. The pad sitting on a 8" bed of sand.
3. A 4ft x 4ft x 6ft tall "bunker" built out of concrete block, then the blocks filled with sand.
4. the bunker door and roof is thick plywood. The door will have an insulated intake grill that picks up the air from 6" above the floor and expels it thru the roof.
5. I might add some muffin fans to force air in/out.
6. Compressor air intakes are PVC tubing, insulated with water pipe insulation fitted to a "box" that has a K&N filter. The box to be 6" x 6" x 12" plywood.
7. the bunker to be inside a lean-to shed next to my building.
8. worst case, I can build another plywood box that is 6" biggger than the concrete to add to dead airspace.
9. air piped into shop via a braided, high pressure hose (to absorb any vibrations).
10. Copper lines in the shop.

I'm talking SILENT! Nothing less.

 

[sberry]

My main one just sits behind this fiberglass blanket to the left, it actually works pretty good.

 

[bmwpower]

........Someone here a month or so ago posted a pic of their compressor which was bought with a sound proofing box build around the pump and motor (factory installed) and this is surely a workable solution as long as it gets enough air for cooling and the pump.

Charles

That was Roadster's IR compressor I believe. I priced those models out....they are pricey...like over $3000+ and the tank is smaller too since the box takes up so much space.

 

[bmwpower]

I want my air compressor to be SILENT. Here are my plans.

It's an 80 gallon, four piston CH unit. Cast Iron, but still makes more noise than I like. It will be running in the middle of the night and I don't want to PO the neighbors.

1. Small concrete pad with anchor bolts sticking up to attach the compressor.
2. The pad sitting on a 8" bed of sand.
3. A 4ft x 4ft x 6ft tall "bunker" built out of concrete block, then the blocks filled with sand.
4. the bunker door and roof is thick plywood. The door will have an insulated intake grill that picks up the air from 6" above the floor and expels it thru the roof.
5. I might add some muffin fans to force air in/out.
6. Compressor air intakes are PVC tubing, insulated with water pipe insulation fitted to a "box" that has a K&N filter. The box to be 6" x 6" x 12" plywood.
7. the bunker to be inside a lean-to shed next to my building.
8. worst case, I can build another plywood box that is 6" biggger than the concrete to add to dead airspace.
9. air piped into shop via a braided, high pressure hose (to absorb any vibrations).
10. Copper lines in the shop.

I'm talking SILENT! Nothing less.

Like this?

 

[REFLEXX]

Yes, Thanks BMW. That's where I'm headed.

 

[RockCrawlingRobK]

Dog House.

Its insulated with R-19 Commercial Roofing Board on the inside(ISO) and foamed and Tyvek on the outside.. Its super quit and I still haven't drywalled the inside.

Edit.. This is a old pic.. It has a 4x4 in the center going into the ground. Its also sided.

 

[bmwpower]

Dog House.

Its insulated with R-19 Commercial Roofing Board on the inside(ISO) and foamed and Tyvek on the outside.. Its super quit and I still haven't drywalled the inside.

Edit.. This is a old pic.. It has a 4x4 in the center going into the ground. Its also sided.

Not sure I follow what I'm looking at. Is that a vent?

 

[kartracer55]

Gary Whipple... Thats slick as hell! I like that alot. Is that an eaton I see?

 

[RockCrawlingRobK]

Not sure I follow what I'm looking at. Is that a vent?

Thats the compressor room that I built off of the garage..

 

[gary whipple]

Gary Whipple... Thats slick as hell! I like that alot. Is that an eaton I see?

Yes, Eaton 5 HP single stage.

Gary

 

[kartracer55]

Got the same one. Hell of a machine for the $$$

 

[XR7G428]

At work we put an upright inside one of those plastic port-a-johns. Works great. No maintenance, and some pretty funny looks when truck drivers mistake the compressor shed for an outhouse. Plus, anytime the compressor kicks on, people just have to ask what is going on in the port-a-john... We just tell them not to worry, old Eaton will be done in just a minute or so...

 

[REFLEXX]

Now that's just a crappy thing to do!!!!

 

[kpendlet]

Here's my compressor enclosure; 6x6 (wish I had made it bigger) off the back of my shop.

 

[sberry]

It isnt finished yet! ha

 

[kpendlet]

It isnt finished yet! ha

You're right. I guess I should have said it's where my compressor will live when finished.

 

[sberry]

If you do things like I do it could be changed before its over.