Making An Upright Air Commpressor From An Old LPG Gas Bottle.

[wm460]

I have been toying with the idea of making an upright air commpressor.
I have a old air commpressor that has a buggered capacitor that they threw out at work, and of course this hoarder took it home.
The trouble and strife keeps whinging about it sitting in the carport, dont know why it doesnt bother me.

 

[wm460]

Bugger now I can’t upload photos from my phone.

Any one help me .


Heres a link kind of whay I was thinking about.

Making an auxiliary air tank from an old LPG gas bottle. - YouTube




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[21William]

This one looks smart …

 

[Garno]

Would it not be easier to just replace the buggered capacitor on the old one?

 

[Bill Mooney]

I enjoyed the video Mark.

 

[wm460]

Would it not be easier to just replace the buggered capacitor on the old one?

That is what I plan to do.

I want to build something like what William posted, using the old air commpressor from work, it is Aussie made belt drive.
I have a 45 kg gas cylinder, I picked up for this reason years ago.
Also I have an air commpressor switch regulator from a chinese commpressor that the motor failed a couple of month after the warranty run out.
I think I have every thing I need except the cdopper pipe and fittings.


If only i could find out how to post pictures.

 

[wm460]

This is the old air compressor that the trouble and strife keeps whinging about.i-
Its an old Aussie made one that no one in the maintenance ever looked after, when the capacitor blew I rescued it.
the plan is to take the motor and pump off and mount it on an upside down LPG cylinder then plumb it up like in the video.

 

[wm460]

I salvage this from the chinese air compressor that replace the aussie one.





Any thought on how the build avoiding any pitfall?

 

[Penpal]

Resurrecting old stuff is fraughtmwish you well.

 

[21William]

As far as I’m aware, in the UK at least, Gas cylinders remain the property of the company that supplies, fills and services them. They only rent the cylinders to you. It may be different where you are.

 

[Curly]

Like I asked on another forum. What will your insurance company say about using an uncertified air compressor?

Pete

 

[wm460]

As far as I’m aware, in the UK at least, Gas cylinders remain the property of the company that supplies, fills and services them. They only rent the cylinders to you. It may be different where you are.

Same here, this one is out of date, probably because where I live they get sent to land fill, instead of transporting the 2500 km back to civilization.

The blokes at the dump salvage the brass fillings for beer money, I asked them to find me one in really good condition.

 

[wm460]

Like I asked on another forum. What will your insurance company say about using an uncertified air compressor?

Pete

There would be a massive different between what the gas mob put in the cylinder and what a 2.5 hp compressor can pump in to it?

 

[21William]

Slightly off topic but I read an article many years ago about the theft of beer kegs in the USA. It is, or was a real problem as the metal they’re made from has a good scrap value. Breweries were keen to point out that they never throw old kegs away and they don’t sell them to the public either. Beer kegs are sent to specific companies for recycling. Any empty, used abused or “creatively” recycled beer kegs are regarded as stolen property unless the owner has a receipt which is highly unlikely.

This has been discussed about Gas bottles in the UK but I’ve not seen a specific resolution to the topic. I guess many gas bottles have the owners name physically pressed into the metal for a reason? :wink: I don’t think used gas bottles would be dumped in land fill over here for obvious reasons.

 

[Curly]

I'm not really all that concerned about whether the tank can take the pressure even though it is expired. It is just that insurance companies, at least here, will use any possible excuse to not pay out if they can find any kind of reason even if it is unrelated to the reason for a claim. So if you are hot knifing a muffler off your car, you set your shorts ablaze in the process, in an effort to keep from getting burnt meatballs you rip them off and toss them into the corner, they set fire to a bunch of boxes piled up near the compressor and the garage and house burn to the ground. The insurance adjuster comes for a look, sees the tank and reports it and some white shirt with his necktie cinched to tight denies the claim leaving you homeless, short less and hairless because you tried to buckshee a compressor. Maybe I am all wrong and overly cautious but don't trust insurance companies one bit.

Pete