What a score ..... Look what I picked up today ...
Ang has been "reminding' me all week the vouchers we received for the transfer station were about to expire ...... So I loaded up the small amount of rubbish I could find (no all the metal stuff isn't rubbish ... that can go to scrap metal at some point).
Look what was beside the car as I loaded up .... It obviously hadn't been wheeled over to the scrap metal bin (or more likely out to there expensive "tip shop" yet .....
I asked the guy unloading beside me if he was chucking it out ... 'It was just left here, I was going to throw it on, but my wife would kill me if I took it home"...... "SSSSsssshhhh, my wife will hear you, she's sitting in the car just there :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: "
Hmmmm, started to wheel it over to my trailer .... damn it's really heavy, so I dropped the tailgate and pulled it up the ramp... Ang spotted me loading it " That's bigger than what we dropped off :nownow: :roflmao: "
What a bloody ripper .... direct drive, proper oil lubricated compressor ... I bet it's made in america not china.
I plugged it in thinking "I bet the safety switch just pops straight out

". I'll be damned if it didn't fire up, blow heaps of dust everywhere (it's obviously been sitting in a shed for many years un-used) .... The quickly and quietly (for a direct drive compressor.... The chinesse ones I've heard rattle like bloody crazy ... by fathers rattles about twice as loud as it nears cuttoff pressure). then cycle off

.... WTF ??? Why has this been chucked out ?? It has been knocked over breaking the intake filter, a fin off the compressor at some point.... Other than that it seems to work perfectly

... So I bleed off some air until it cycled back on ................... AAAaaahh, there's the problem it struggles to start or won't start under full load (pressure). So it'll probably just need a start/run cap
I'll use this to run the air fed mask and parallel it with my compressor for the sand blaster to try and get more airflow.
Look how little it is compared to a normal compressor, I'll be able to fill it up and wheel it around the yard to fill car & trailer tyres etc.. (the other ones to bloody hard to move around).
Just need to find an intake filter and start capacitor no doubt ... I'll even shout it an oil change
seeya,
Shane L.