joyce on tue 19 feb 08
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>>>Subject: RE: Air Compressor - in case you didn't know.
>>>Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:54:11 -0600
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>>>John Rogers wrote:
>>>"If one has the need for an engine powered air compressor rather than an
>>>electric powered air compressor, the engine from the old air cooled
>>>Volkswagen Beetle is capable of being converted into an air compressor.
>>>Some years ago, kits were available, and I believe they still are -
>>>though I haven't made a point to hunt them down recently - to replace
>>>two of the cylinders n the little flat four-banger with compressor
>>>cylinders, thus producing a combination two cylinder gasoline engine
>>>powered compressor. Add a compressed air storage tank and y are ready
>>>to go. Mounted on a stand, a cart or a small utility trailer, it is a
>>>handy tool with great portability, giving you compressed air in the
>>>shop, on the road, at the beach, in the mountains, whereever."
>>>
>>>John -
>>>You can do the same thing with a Chrysler Corp. slant-six. It has a
>>>twelve-port head and 120-degree crank-throws evenly distributed front to
>>>back, so you can isolate the front and rear halves to turn it into a
>>>3-cylinder compressor and a 3-cylinder engine. As in the case of the VW
>>>engine, you have to sleeve the compressor cylinders so that they are smaller
>>>than the engine cylinders, or else the engine won't have enough power to do
>>>the job.
>>>
>>>Back in the 1940s and 1950s the Schramm Company made compressors like this
>>>from Ford flathead V-8s and some kind of big straight 4-cylinder and
>>>6-cylinder engines, maybe Budas, with half the cylinders for power and the
>>>other half sleeved down and compressing air. They were popular because they
>>>were so compact (relatively speaking).
>>>
>>>By the way, the folks who listed that big compressor on eBay clearly don't
>>>know what they are talking about, because there is a huge electric motor
>>>clearly visible direct-coupled to the compressor, and there's no diesel
>>>engine at all. The big six-cylinder unit is all compressor.
>>>- Vince
>>>
>>>Vince Pitelka
>>>Appalachian Center for Craft
>>>Tennessee Tech University
>>>vpitelka@dtccom.net; wpitelka@tntech.edu
>>>http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka
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