Compressor mounts for free!

[jayoldschool]

Here are a few shots of the mounts I fabbed up for my new compressor. Three hockey pucks, drilled for bolts, countersunk on the bottom for the heads and a washer, topped with a large washer, a locking washer, and a nut. Scrounged up everything for a total cost of zero

 

[CUSTOMMANCAVES.COM]

Do the neighborhood kids know where their hockey pucks disappeared to?

 

[jayoldschool]

lol, I live in Canada. Hockey pucks are more common than pennies in your change.

 

[ImportTuner]

Very nice; what did you use to make the counterbore holes?

 

[jayoldschool]

Forstner bit. Drilled the center hole first so everything was aligned.

 

[lilredex]

OK, so what's the rest of the story? How are you actually going to use them?

More pic? Please.

 

[MLK]

That's what I use.

They work great.

Mike

 

[srmofo]

OK, so what's the rest of the story? How are you actually going to use them?

More pic? Please.

You just bolt them to the feet of the compressor

 

[gatchel]

That will make it easy to move when you want to. Just open the door for a few days, hose down the floor and slide it on the soon to be ice in that wonderfully cold climate you live in.

 

[lilredex]

You just bolt them to the feet of the compressor

And they sit in a recess of some type to keep everything in place? When I first saw them I was thinking they were just vibration dampers on a "through" bolt down into the floor or other, and what good would that really be. If I did that with mine it would be on the floor in a minute. The front is bolted securely to the bracket on this one, and it does vibrate some.

 

[trbomax]

Somebody please enlighten me,because I dont see the point in trying to insulate a compressor from a concrete floor.Simply bolting thru rubber doesnt reduce harmonics,you would need an isolation sleeve in the center of it,or a rubber puck under and on top of the mounting foot.Would seem to me, it might shake worse if it could move.

 

[rcozzo]

I countersunk my bolts the same way using a spade bit. The best part is the smell of burning rubber while drilling them.

 

[Gary S]

I just left my compressor on the pallet it was shipped on. The pallet does a nice job of isolating it too. Hockey pucks would cost me money. We don't do much hockey here. We do a lot of rodeo, and saddles don't make good compressor mounts.

 

[89MustangGX]

Ok, the idea of hockey pucks sounded kind of cheesy to me at first, but after seeing it done, it looks like a nice cheaper alternative to industrial feet that I was going to purchase.

I'm going to look into this now -- thanks.

Adam

 

[tbob]

I just used old worn out hard rubber 3" caster wheels my business was going to throw out. Hole already cut with sleeve. Cut sleeve a little shorter & Bolted to floor, works great.

Terry

 

[murph64]

I cut up a couple of 4x4" pieces of an old tire and have that between the compressor and the floor.



Andy

 

[logical]

I've seen a lot of people use them on the forum but I always thought they were a little on the ard side to actually reduce the vibration transferred into the floor. I found some actual purpose built machine isolators cheap on Ebay and they are pretty soft and about 1.5 times the height of a puck. Picture a 2x size marshmellow. They are soft enough that I can jiggle the compressor an inch or so at the top (mine is a 60 gal. horizontal so that's quite a bit) easily but it has never walked and doesn't seem at all unstable.

All I have handy is this wide shot of the whole compressor.

 

[Professur]

Makes you wonder what those poor folks in the southern states do without hockey pucks.

 

[Notch1988]

LOL... being from Canada I used hockey pucks too. I used lag screws and two pucks per leg in the back. For the front I drilled two anchor bolts into my floor and slid hockey pucks over the anchor bolts and then bolted the compressor down.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

...oh, I'll just run over to my BOX of hockey pucks. Oh, thats right I live in Southern California. What's a hockey puck?

Seriously, it DOES look good. BUt it wouldn't be free here. I honestly doubt any of my local sporting goods stores stock hockey pucks.

 

[Demian]

...oh, I'll just run over to my BOX of hockey pucks. Oh, thats right I live in Southern California. What's a hockey puck?

Seriously, it DOES look good. BUt it wouldn't be free here. I honestly doubt any of my local sporting goods stores stock hockey pucks.

I think you'd be surprised how much hockey there actually is in SoCal.

On topic, I like the pucks and despite being in Southwest FL I have an abudant supply

 

[Falcon67]

Makes you wonder what those poor folks in the southern states do without hockey pucks.

They sell 'em here too, Mr. Smarty Pants.

Actually, the thing I did for my compressor was to cut three 3" squares from the horse pad that the washing machine sits on. No bolts, nothing. Just slid the pads under the feet. I have a catch loop to hold the compressor should it tip, but it hasn't moved not 1mm at all in over a year of use.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/equine...t-rubber-horse-stall-mat-4-ft-x-6-ft--2219003

 

[msmith]

I have an 80 gallon vertical tank Ingersoll Rand compressor. I used solid rubber pads that are about 3/8-inch thick with a u-shaped channel to pass the bolt through. I used 1/2-inch anchors into the concrete floor with the rubber pads between the feet and the concrete. It purrs like a kitten and is solid as a rock.

 

[FlameOut]

I ended up using left over body bushings. I had a bunch left over from my Chevelle restoration. And they already had the hole in them. I was about to go the hockey puck route when I remembered I had this stuff left over

 

[TooTall]

I'm in So. Cal. by the beach. I have a bag of about 2 dozen hockey pucks out in the garage. They make great jack pads. There's lots of hockey in So. Cal., even in Pasadena;
http://www.pasadenahockey.net/
One of my sons former team mates was just drafted by the Penguins in the first round of the NHL draft.

Kurt O.

 

[Jim Stabe]

...oh, I'll just run over to my BOX of hockey pucks. Oh, thats right I live in Southern California. What's a hockey puck?

Seriously, it DOES look good. BUt it wouldn't be free here. I honestly doubt any of my local sporting goods stores stock hockey pucks.

San Diego isn't the hockey capital of the western hemisphere either but I bought a dozen online for $1 apiece. I have mounted my 80 gal air compressor, my 3,000 lb milling machine and 1 1/2 hp buffer with them. They work great and the buffer doesn't scoot across the floor when I use it.

 

[dkroth]

lol, I live in Canada. Hockey pucks are more common than pennies in your change.

I live in the United States. Pennies are very uncommon in pocket change. I have never carried, nor have I ever met anyone who carries, pennies in their pockets here in the States.

Cents, on the other hand, are quite common.



C'mon. It's Friday!

 

[84scrambler]

I ended up using some scrap delrin that my buddy had at his work. The center was counter-bored and I was able to put it together for next to nothing. I attached a picture but unfortunately its not a close up but you can make it out in the bottom left hand corner to get an idea.

 

[PCO6]

I live in the United States. Pennies are very uncommon in pocket change. I have never carried, nor have I ever met anyone who carries, pennies in their pockets here in the States.

Cents, on the other hand, are quite common.



C'mon. It's Friday!

I didn't know that. It's fairly common around here ... or atleast it is when I am in line behind a woman that will search for what seems like a minute for 4 cents rather give a cashier a nickle and risk getting a penny back.

When a cashier asks me ... "Do you have the 2 cents?" ... I often say ... "I have no cents at all". Half of them don't get the joke and just carry on. A quarter of them do and you get a laugh or a smile. The rest act ticked off, which is often why I say it in the first place.

 

[boosteddsm92]

They sell 'em here too, Mr. Smarty Pants.

Actually, the thing I did for my compressor was to cut three 3" squares from the horse pad that the washing machine sits on. No bolts, nothing. Just slid the pads under the feet. I have a catch loop to hold the compressor should it tip, but it hasn't moved not 1mm at all in over a year of use.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/equine...t-rubber-horse-stall-mat-4-ft-x-6-ft--2219003

Thanks for the idea! Doesn't get any easier, and you have a large mat leftover for anti-fatigue or whatever you want to use it for! Just got my compressor wired up today, loving it. Next is some nice plumbing for it...