OT air compressor comes home

Finally pulled the trigger on a 60 gallon air compressor for my shop! Used Grandpas WD to lift her off the borrowed Dodge 3/4 ton.



I am going to bolt it to the concrete in the corner of my shop, but wanted to isolate it for noise suppression. Dad has worked (now retired) HVAC for the last 20 years, and has kept an account at our local Johnstone Supply. Had no idea what to ask for, but explained it to the counter help. I mentioned isolation damper, and he goes back to get some samples. Found some 1/2" thick by four inches square that will work great! Needed 3, cost $1.81 each-even better!!! I was VERY impressed by the counter help today!

Do not bolt it to the floor. It will sit just fine on those rubber pads.

I left it bolted to the pallet and set the pallet on a old rubber dairy barn pad. Worked real good and price was right.

Leave the compressor bolted to the pallet and that will be all you need plus if you ever want to move it you can slide a pallet jack under it and move the compressor if you need to. My compressor is has been on its shipping pallet since I brought new about 10 years ago, is not bolted to the floor, does not make a lot of noise or walk around the floor, and can still be moved if need be. Being on the pallet also makes it easier to get to the drain valve. By the way now is a good time to extend that drain out to where you can get to it with a stainless steel ball valve to make it real easy to drain the tank once a week. Use it and enjoy and return those rubber mounts as you already own the pallet. Armand

I gave away a nice industrial job made in Ohio a few years ago that had a hundred gallon tank, and two heads powered by a couple of 1 HP motors that were 208 three phase. The thing was huge and I offered it to several shops, for free but they didn't want it. I got it for free after jokingly asking if I could have it after seeing it on the 40th machine floor in a Chicago office high rise. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange bought it because someone got the idea that they could clean the trading floor faster with it than sweeping. So they bought the thing for Im sure major $$$, put it on a couple of dollies and gave it a shot one night. Not only did it blow the papers and stuff off of the floor into a pile as planned, it blew everything, and I mean everything off of the desks for the brokers as well. It was a disaster and they never used it again on anything, ever. They just freight elevatored it up to the 40th machine floor, took it off of the dollies that they used for something else and stuck it in some corner until I saw it and jokingly asked if I could have it. Then they kept asking me when I was going to pick it up and get it out of their hair. One Saturday I showed up at the loading dock to pick it up, but didn't remember it being as big as it was. It took eight of us to muscle it into the back of my pickup and it took up the whole bed. That thing was huge. When I got it home, it took about eight neighbor guys to help me get it off and slide it into the corner of my garage where it sat for years until I couldn't stand it taking up the space. Again, I offered it to garages and factories for free so long as they would pick it up, but no one wanted it, especially after they came over an saw how big it was. Finally, I jacked its ends up, put huge industrial rollers under its legs, rolled it down the drive to the street and put a sign on it that said "Free to a good home, but if you take it, do not bring it back". Pickup truck after pickup truck drove up to look at it, several guys telling me to hold it until they came back with help to lift it, and I told them all that the first guys to get it gone, owned it, I didn't care who it was, and I wasn't holding it for anyone. Guys in one pickup actually got into a fight with guys in another pickup. It HAD two heads with two motors wired for 208. It was too industrial everything for any home or garage, and maybe most barns.

Your 60 or so gallon compressor is much bigger than the 11 gallon one I have these days, but mine works ok for now. Much good luck with yours. Use it in great health.

Mark

Tell us about your compressor choice. Is it cast iron pump and how many H.P.? Who manufactured it?

Just leave it on the shipping pallet. Do not bolt it down to the floor. Bolting it down might cause some stress points which eventually could develop into a cracked tank.

We used a piece of hydraulic hose between the compressor and the air lines to cut down noise and vibration. Mine sets on an old cow mat.

It is a 60 gallon Kobalt-from Lowes. 240 volt, 15 amp. Made by Sanborn, which is owned by Coleman Powermate, I believe. The compressor is cast iron-even the head-I checked it with a small magnet! They consider it a 10,000 hour oiled compressor! I don't know about that-one can only hope! I kept checking Menards too, as they have the Sanborn on the floor. This one was $100 off for 5 days, so pulled the trigger!

hope you got a 2-stage,..

an old truck mudflap works good to set a compressor on.