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Re: Bolting Compressor to the floor

To: "George Procyshyn" <geopro@cyberdrive.net>, <nogera@juno.com>,
Subject: Re: Bolting Compressor to the floor
From: "Jim V." <jvanho01@tir.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:52:49 -0500
That is exactly the same thing that I have done with my compressor of the
same size.

Jim V.

At 12:40 AM 3/16/99 -0500, George Procyshyn wrote:
>
>Bob
>I've got an upright 220v 6hp/60gal. compressor.  It came bolted to a wooden
>base. That allowed the mfg. to staple the cardboard box around it.  I took
>off the box, placed the compressor in the corner of the garage still bolted
>to it's shipping base.  No shims, no level, nothing, just wired a 220 plug
>to it and plugged it in.  It hasn't moved an inch in the last three years.
>George Procyshyn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nogera@juno.com <nogera@juno.com>
>To: shop-talk@autox.team.net <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
>Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 11:53 PM
>Subject: Bolting Compressor to the floor
>
>
>>
>>I'm getting ready to pour a  concrete slab behind the garage for a little
>>shed  to house  my compressor .  Anyone got some good ideas on bolting
>>the  compressor to the floor?  My first thought  was to imbed some studs
>>in the concrete when wet but that means 1. being spot on with the
>>placement and 2. lifting that 600 lbs(+) compressor to clear the studs.
>>Would making  a wood base which bolts to the compressor feet  and to the
>>floor work ?
>>Bob Nogueira
> 

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