kolky
Active member
My wife bought me an IR Garage Mate air compressor for Christmas. It's a nice compressor that is 2HP and puts out 5.2 CFM and is portable and quite.
When I started it up it ended up having a pin hole in one of the welds on the tank. Ingersoll-Rand's customer service is great and when I called them about it they told me to drill another hole in the tank to render it inoperable and they would ship me a an entire brand new compressor. This means that I have the brand new pump and motor off the old one to do with what I please.
What I was thinking was that I could get a used 30 gallon tank off craigslist cheap and then hook the spare motor and pump up to that. Then connect the two outputs with a "T" and run it to my hose reel to basically get double the CFM and air storage. I already have multiple circuits running to my garage so I don't think load will be an issue. Also the IR pumps are rated for 100% duty.
Does this sound like a reasonable idea? Do I need anything else like a check valve? I know that I should probably set them to kick on at slightly different pressures.
When I started it up it ended up having a pin hole in one of the welds on the tank. Ingersoll-Rand's customer service is great and when I called them about it they told me to drill another hole in the tank to render it inoperable and they would ship me a an entire brand new compressor. This means that I have the brand new pump and motor off the old one to do with what I please.
What I was thinking was that I could get a used 30 gallon tank off craigslist cheap and then hook the spare motor and pump up to that. Then connect the two outputs with a "T" and run it to my hose reel to basically get double the CFM and air storage. I already have multiple circuits running to my garage so I don't think load will be an issue. Also the IR pumps are rated for 100% duty.
Does this sound like a reasonable idea? Do I need anything else like a check valve? I know that I should probably set them to kick on at slightly different pressures.
