My vintage air compressor.

[Moloko]

I figured I'd post up the pride of my shop, the 1950 Westinghouse Air-Brake air compressor I got over winter. I've been using it for a few months now, and other than it not being the fastest thing on Earth, it seems to work great! It's an 80 gallon tank, I have it set to 160psi, has a 1hp motor.

These pictures are after I cleaned/painted it when I brought it home. Before it was covered with a protective layer of grease and pastel 50's paint.

 

[930dreamer]

Very nice compressor.

 

[Ram]

Looking very nice. What paint did you use? And was it rattle can or mixed spray?

 

[Moloko]

That was just regular rust-o-leum hammered that I had laying around.