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Bruce L. Bergman Bruce L. Bergman is offline
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Default The mother of all compressors

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:15:52 -0500, Ignoramus6286
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Rescued from Illinois Train Museum today.

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/MuseumPurchases/


Have we told you "You suck!" today yet?

Okay, now one very important question: How do you plan on powering
up either one of those beasties at a private residence?

The Quincy compressor, maybe - if it's a 5 HP and not a 10 HP. A
VFD will get you 3-Ph if you need it, but you still have to feed
enough watts to the input before they come out the output.

And that big hunk of Blue Iron will dump the grid for the whole
neighborhood if you turn it up all the way and get the rod stuck
instead of struck...

Start making friends at the local power utility, and see if you can
talk them into a 200A 480V service for the Toy Box. Umm, garage.

-- Bruce --