"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message
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I was driving through the neighborhood this past weekend, and there it was
by
the curb, with a "Free to Good Home" sign: an air compressor. The
gentleman
was still in his garage, said it worked fine, and that he had upgraded to
a
bigger unit.

So I threw (well, it was a little heavy to throw but...) this "Air Ace
TD2525"
into the back of my Element, and now it sits in my garage. It's somewhat
bigger than my existing compressor, so perhaps it's an upgrade.

The problem is that I have no documentation, and to my surprise there are
very
few hits, and no relevant ones, on Google. One guy complained that it
uses
oil very rapidly. I'm not even sure how much of what oil to add, or even
where to add it.

Is anyone perhaps familiar with this obviously Chinese product, enough to
give
some basic "how to get started" verbiage?

Is it oil-less, perhaps?? Proly not, if it's belt-drive, altho even some
direct-drive units use oil.
If oil, you should be able to find a a drain plug at the base of the
compressor head, proly a 1/4-3/8 pipe thread, with a square, hex or allen
head? No dip stick?

If there is no dip stick and no fill, and only a drain plug, you can make a
fill with a short nipple, an elbow, and mebbe another short (vertical)
nipple, which then serves to establish the oil level in the compressor head.
What this level should be is a bit of a question, but it proly isn't much
higher than 1" from the base.

There was a discussion on rcm as to what the diff between motor oil and
compressor was. The only thing I notice is that compressor oil is clear,
and proly doesn't have to withstand as high a temp as motor oil, which
suggests motor oil would be OK.... another good Q for rcm.
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EA



Art