Small compressor

[Fretters]

Picked this wee beastie up at a boot sale on Saturday.

In your money, it cost me just shy of $5. Just need to dig out a working 110V transformer to give it a whirl, but knowing how stout the build quality on these things is, it would likely have to have been seriously abused to not be working.

 

[Outlawmws]

Very cool Compressor Fret!

Somewhere there is a bench top compressor thread, that would be an unusual addition.

 

[StillTooManyHobbies]

Very cool find! It appears to be specifically made to be a compressor, not just a motor with a compressor added on to it. I love the end casting with the mount for the top handle and the cast cooling fins. Use it and enjoy it! I hope you get a chance to give it a gentle restoration with some cleaning and paint.

 

[Fretters]

I'll add it to that thread if I can find it Outlaw. Was chuffed with this little find. It made the boot sale, (it was one we'd not been to before, and I honestly didn't think much of it), bearable.

It will be getting a tart up eventually if it's working, STMH. It'd bug the life out of me seeing it in that condition permanently. As you surmised, this was how they came from factory, so it's not a patched together affair. I think the model is a 2X1.

I've dug out a 110V toroidal, so hopefully I'll be knocking a transformer unit up to test and run it from within the next few days. Dropped the oil out of it today and it was like black sludge.