DeVilbiss Compressor

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Uploaded by on Sep 6, 2010

Picked this up today off of Craigslist. Nice little compressor. Has a B-Line motor, not sure what style. I would guess made around the 60s.

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  • Those old compressors are great. My wife bought me one from a garage sale made by Packard in 1956. Brought it home and replaced the belt and it runs better than a new one. Love the oil ring inside the block of the Packard piston. I runs in a pool of oil up over the ring and keeps the rod bearing lubed.

  • @wulfdogcat In my opinion these old compressors are so superior to the noise makers they make today. However currently I do use a newer compressor and its loud and slow to recover, only good thing about it is the crankcase is oil filled and has a sight glass. I ended up not being able to use this compressor as a unit, I found the tank had been weakend by rust.

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  • do a safe pressure test on the air receiver by completely filling the receiver with water and pumping it to 300 lbs. If it fails, all that will happen is that a slight amount of water will leak out . Don't ever test a receiver by filling it with air. It will explode like a bomb if it fails.

  • that motor is a old repulsion induction motor, the crown spring might be gummed up

    

  • Yeah I worry about that one mine, but I can't see any rust on the outside, but I know it's probably on the inside. The modern ones have taps to drain them. Probably worth it to get a modern tank and put the old stuff on it. Have you ever heard of those feroweld rods by lincoln? They sure work good, course so do the nickel rods I love welding with them.

  • she,s a oldie,looks ok tho???????

  • i can tell you quite a bit about motors. its a repulsion induction motor. inside the motor there is a governor weight that actually either shorts out the commutator once the motor reaches full speed or it moves the brushes away from the commutator. the mechanism needs some WD-40 because its sticking and responding too slowly. easy fix though. check out some of my repulshion induction motors to see how they work

  • cool, would not mind owning that.

  • how much was it?

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