No new updates really but do have some tool updates. Around the corner from my work there's a habitat for humanity and they sell reclaimed home stuff cabinets, light fixtures, plumbing stuff, random tools. So we usually check it out weekly on lunch break see whats new. Well this was sitting there...
So check the price $250 bucks?!? Says untested so pop the rear cover off belts look good, rotates freely, oil is a little dirty, air filter is good, and the drain valve has a little rust. Ask the manager a few questions only reason they didn't test is the building doesn't have 220 but it came from a storage unit with a bunch of other tools and everything else worked that came out of there.
But its 80gal, 5 hp, 175 psi, two stage, 22 cfm, single phase, baldor motor.
So took the gamble threw $250 down. Called ciasons when i got back to the shop for more info on it. The compressor was built in 2004 cost $3100 bucks they are about a 2 hour drive from my house. And $75 to service it and go thru it. Checked ebay a new rebuilt motor is going for about $300. So that was a come up hands down.
Got it home on Saturday. Now just have to run some conduit, add another breaker to he panel, plumb the garage with copper line, add a ball valve water drain, buy a couple water traps and regulators, change the oil and I'm good to go.
This is to funny not to post for those not keeping score.
I've just now realized the jeep is more useful then my dodge. The jeep so far has pulled a trailer to San Deigo to get the frame, all around Ventura county to get a cab, down to Los angles to get the compressor, multiple trips to the metal yard, the welding shop with a argon bottle strapped to the cage. Its taken me all thru Mojave and some of the harder trails in California.
I bring a sand blast cabinet home and my truck decides it doesn't need rocker arms anymore.
