On 5/22/2011 10:26 AM, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
> I always wondered how long my 40-year-old Craftsman air compressor
> tank would last, and how destructively catastrophic would the failure
> be? Turns out to be 40 years, and not very.
So... just how did it fail? I worry about mine, and it sounds similar.
1971 (5 years younger than me) vintage 2hp 40-ish gallon that dad
bought back in the day. I drain the water occasionally but leave it
pressurized full time. It lives in the basement / garage and I worry it
may explode up through the floor some day.
-Wayne
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