Ticking Time Bomb?

[kingchevy]

After seeing a couple of threads on exploded compressors, this thing looks pretty scary.
http://santamaria.craigslist.org/tls/4670995878.html

 

[olytdi]

Nawww, just pump her up tight and nuzzle your cheek lovingly on the tank with total trust and adoration....

It'll be fine!

 

[BDT/NWMN]

Please don't ask for a list of what's wrong..... writer's cramps are a reality..

 

[NUTTSGT]

Looks pretty scary to me.

On the other hand, I'd be tempted to go look at it, just to be nosy and see what other hacked up stuff is happpening at the seller's place.

 

[PCO6]

It looks perfectly safe to me ... without the motor.

 

[laser3kw]

kinda of has the industrial deco look / steam punky

I love the ample use of plumbing lead pipe parts - at least it isn't PVC!

 

[FORMUD]

at least it isn't PVC!

Oh boy!!! You used the "PVC" word in a thread that has the word "Air" in it....... This isn't going to end well.

 

[TheShrine]

I was sure the thread was about MaxJax!

 

[Lassen Forge]

All we need is a fuse on one end of it...

Actually, the compressor unit is probably OK. Just good enough to put 200 PSI in that home made tank (WTF??), and of course, no harm to either the Sched 40 pipe or that fine regulator...

I have a craftsman gas engine powered one, came out of dad's garage, when I was a widdle kid it was our shop go-to machine... now, it looks scarily like that... It's frozen up (which to me says a LOT about what the inside of the tank looks like)... Can't think of a safe way to re-use this thing. At least I *know* who built my tank (and I still don't trust it)...

I'd pump it up, put it on my ex-bosses porch as an early ex-mas gift... if it wasn't so dangerous to pressurize the tank.

 

[Norcal]

kinda of has the industrial deco look / steam punky

I love the ample use of plumbing lead pipe parts ...................................

Lead pipe? That's galvanized pipe.

 

[akacoke]

Normal operation

 

[jwhcars]

No guts no gory.........

 

[laser3kw]

Lead pipe? That's galvanized pipe.

(lead sounds scarier)

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

I'll bet if you spoke to the seller he'd laugh out loud at us saying it is as safe as could be. The only scary part of this thing is that for $50 some young kid that's JUST LIKE ALL OF US, but has little experience will buy it and take his life in his own hands without knowing it.

 

[Super Mech]

That's nothing! I had an uncle that must have built at least a half a dozen compressors out of stuff he had laying around and/or hauled out of the garbage.

He had one blow the end of a tank out but he was outside the garage when it happend!
He had one that used a beer keg for a tank. That one was set at a 100psi cut-off. He ran it like that for years.

 

[skyking]

Frankenstein-compressor.

 

[skyking]

That is what wives are for........"honey, I am going outside and when I yell , you turn on the compressor."

 

[Mooky]

Looks like a trashcan with wheels welded on. My API, ASME & National Board Certifications are expired, but I can still say it doesn't meet code.

 

[RossABQ]

I bought a setup just like that, for the same price, and threw away everything but the pump. I had a near-new tank from an oilless unit that had cratered, and put a new motor on it.

A friend of mine was all set to use old water heaters for supplementary air tanks (so he could use a small pump to spray paint a truck). I begged him not to do it.

 

[GarageLogic]

Check this one out:

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/tls/4571202631.html

Says it is from WW2 and the frame is the air tank. Doesn't seem like it would make much of a tank. But looks very cool, love the gauge.

Also sounds like it was in use but needs a belt. Would someone really use this for day-to-day work?

 

[KRB52]

Put a new electric motor on it, run it out into the middle of a field and power it up with a 100' extension cord and wait and see what happens.