[TheForge] Refrigerator compressor/motors

[Jerry Smith]

         I used them for vacuum pumps, low pressure compressors, you just 
need to have a little oil in them. You can make a great stabilization 
chambers using Frig compressors.


Jerry

At 06:56 PM 11/3/2004, you wrote:
>I have access to quite a few refrigerator motor compressor units that 
>work, only they have been cut out of the refrigerators.  There are at 
>least 100 of them and they are mine for the taking.  What I'm wondering is:
>
>1.  Is there enough copper inside the sealed units to make it worth my 
>while to cut them open and strip the copper out before taking them to the 
>scrap yard?
>
>2.  Can these units be used successfully for low volume pressurized air 
>such as an air brush or filling a small portable pressure tank or 
>inflating car tires?
>
>3.  Any other thoughts on useful applications for these rather than scrap?
>
>4.  I know these have oil in the gas lines, it's clear and I assume it may 
>be mineral oil?  What needs to be done so that the oil stays down or 
>recycles in the compressor area and doesn't travel up line to point of use?
>
>Start brainstorming, guys.  Start thinking.
>
>Dave Brown
>Heritage Smithing
>Green Bay, WI
>
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