Quincy QT-54!

[Goose17]

Well, it’s been years in the making, but today I had a big frigg’n Quincy air compressor delivered with the plan to get it into the loft. This beast weighs 500 pounds, but it’s the reason I put the lift where I did and also the reason I had my electrician run 220 to the corner of a future loft when I had the garage built.

The FedEx dude did a great job getting the compressor into my garage without messing up the floor.

Using a bunch of scrap wood from my loft project, I built a platform so that the top part would be level with the loft with the lift all the way up. Everything was screwed together and was actually quite stable.

I wasn’t sure if my teens sons and I could lift this monster up to the platform. We each grabbed a leg with one hand and stabilized the top heavy compressor with the other... it worked!

With the hardest part behind us, the lift worked like a champ to raise it up to the loft floor.

From there, we simply slid it onto the loft floor and then used a combination of sliding it on plastic and walking it back on its legs to the far corner.

All of the measurements worked! It fit like a glove.

Victory pose from my boys!

Now I have to connect the electric and get it plumbed with a drain, filter and dryer. I may have to buy some accessories too!

It was a big stress relief when we got the beast into the loft. I wasn’t sure if the 3 of us could handle it, but it was a total success!

 

[redwrench60]

Man that’s cool. That’s the compressor I want too. I’ve been eying my loft for a compressor also. Do you plan to Wall it in up there to contain the noise? What will you do for a condensation drain with it up there? Automatic drain valve maybe?

 

[Strouty]

I was so confused, I could not see anything but that really freaking cool floor!

I did look again and I can now see the compressor, it is cool too, but only because it is blue........

 

[Goose17]

Man that’s cool. That’s the compressor I want too. I’ve been eying my loft for a compressor also. Do you plan to Wall it in up there to contain the noise? What will you do for a condensation drain with it up there? Automatic drain valve maybe?

Yes, planning an auto drain out the side of the building.

I was so confused, I could not see anything but that really freaking cool floor!

I did look again and I can now see the compressor, it is cool too, but only because it is blue........

Funny, thank you.

 

[Riggerson]

Probably would have taken the pump and the motor off and moved those separately to avoid riding on a platform with such a top heavy load. Those clamps holding the platform to the lift legs also seem a little dicey. Glad it worked out well but someone could have easily lost their footing, etc. A little extra planning/disassembly could have minimized those risks.

 

[Goose17]

The clamps weren’t needed... just there to keep the wood from sliding. It was quite stable.

 

[71goldss]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I own that same compressor, and it’s far from quiet. I can almost guarantee that you’ll be adding plans to build an insulated enclosure around it. Congrats on the new compressor!