[TheForge] "Overclocking" your compressor

Wed May 15 08:09:01 2002

I had a friend that found out the hard way about those old rusty tanks.

He has four (4) breaks between the ankle and knee, the ankle had to be
rebuilt from the bone out, lots of skin grafts on the leg and ankle, a
mangled hand, a bad cut on the upper arm and a bad cut on his shoulder.  He
had a four (4) foot hole in his shop.

This was eight weeks ago and he has not started rehab yet.

DRAIN THOSE TANKS!

Bobby Hart
Hush Puppy Forge
Griffin, GA
OBG, AFC

-(  Mostly be careful on old tanks that have had
>condensation and rust occuring in them.........they ain't quite what they
>used to be.
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>Ralph
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:37 AM
>Subject: [TheForge] "Overclocking" your compressor
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>> Ive been playing with the pressure switch settings on my compressors, I
>was
>> wondering what a safeish setting would be,  have a 15 cfm and a 10 cfm
>> feeding my air hammer, Im not sure what the bigger one is rated at but the
>> small one has a reline on the guage of 120 psi, is 130 safe, 140 even?
>What
>> is getting stressed here? the electric motor or the pump? These both have
>a
>> single adjustment on the switch with about a 30 psi gap between on and off
>> so I mainly want to keep the pressure up when Im hammering hard out but
>> waiting till 90 psi or so before they cut in means the hammer slows
>> somewhat. Mabey I should just get that bigger cylinder for my hammer and
>90
>> psi would be plently.
>>
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