That free air compressir my little buddy Jesse found and gave me turned out to need about fifty cents worth of parts to fix.
Other than the sixteen freaking dollars for one quart of Air Compressor Oil I bough off of Amazon.
Turns out it is a SEARS compressor expressly made for spraying paint.
Here’s what it looked like new.
The stickers are even still on it and the paint is in great shape!
Mine even has a large pressure regulator sticking out the discharge side of the tank, along with two quick disconnect fittings plumbed in before it and it also has 20 feet of hose with another quick disconnect that actually fits my air tools.
It would work but when it got up to about 40 psi it would start making all kinds of racket.
Enough that I shut it off..
I went to adjust the belt after I changed the 2 ounces of oil I found in it today and found this,
The set screw and the shear key were both missing off the drive pulley.
After I dug around in my extensive collection of stuff a few minutes I came up with both.
Total cost there, mostly zero except the set screw was in a kit I bought from Harbor Freight a few years ago. I had a used key in a small plastic storage box with removable drawers,.along with a whole bunch of others. I didn’t even have to cut it.
After I put it together I plugged it in again and it pumped up to 100 psi and shut off.
I went and checked it a few minutes ago and it has held pressure all day.
I gotta love lazy and stupid people who throw perfectly good equipment out on the sidewalk instead of taking two minutes to figure out what’s wrong with it.
I’ll take those kinds of deals all day.
“lazy and stupid people who throw perfectly good equipment out.” They gave you a free gift. Careful, Karma can be a bitch!
Karma is how I got it in the first place.
I have a son who resembles that! (discarding what could be fixed)
Hopefully as he ages he will grow to appreciate taking care of tools, hardware & equipment.
He has 3 sons and 2 grandsons already, so I can spoil them with tools and equipment.
Amen. I curbside picked a very nice little Rollair compressor (nice and quiet, compared to modern shit you find at home Depot and Harbor Freight) that needed very little work to get up and running perfectly again. It needed a power cord, and some of the aluminum distribution tubing replaced (all dented up in one spot), plus a new start capacitor on the motor and new oil, and a new filter/dryer.
I’ve used the hell out of that little compressor, and it works great. I even piped it up to a good 50G water heater I pulled out on a replacement job, and modified that for use as an air storage tank (with proper pressure relief valve).