I am mighty impressed with your efforts and solutions to reducing
vibration.
I guess I am just lucky: I was given a large old service station
vertical tank compressor with the compressor supposedly "shot". It
turned out that the only problem was some of the intake filter horsehair
material had been sucked in and was caught in the in reed valve on one
cylinder. I rebuilt the compressor and stuck the whole thing in a corner
near the service panel with no floor preparation nor fasteners. It has
been running there for about 5 years and hasn't move an inch. It might
help that the (antique) two stage compressor has opposed pistons on a
single connecting rod, so I guess it must be fairly well balanced.
Mike
Steve Hammatt wrote:
> you've done almost the exact same installation I've
> done with my 60 gal vertical compressor, except I
> skipped the upper shock bushing. Had it for 5 years
> and no problems. I did find (Grainger) and automatic
> water drain that works on a change in the pressure
> in the tank. Also, my flex hose is the SS braided hose.
> Good luck!
> Steve Hammatt
> Mount Vernon WA USA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian" <Shop-Talk@mcfetridge.org>
> Subject: Mounting a compressor
>
>
>
>>I'm installing a 60 gallon vertical Devilbiss compressor and would like to
>>limit vibrations as much as reasonably possible. Here's what I'm doing so
>>far:
>>-- 1/2 x 4.5" studs (red caps) sunk 2 inches into a concrete slab
>>-- stud passes through hocky puck with 1/2" hole sitting on the concrete.
>>-- stud then passes through compressor feet with through 1/2" elongated
>
> holes,
>
>>feet rest on hocky pucks.
>>-- stud then passes through a 1" OD rubber shock bushing
>>-- stud is capped with a washer and nylon lock not.
>>-- a flex hose is used to connect the compressor to copper pipe.
>>
>>Sound like a reasonable approach to reduce vibrations? Any other ideas?
>>Thanks in advance, Ian
>
> snip
>
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