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  1. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    I totally appreciate your response and concern, but everything is now up and running perfectly again. And I did take the contactor (pressure switch) and filed those contacts to like new again, but I replaced the entire unit, since that is how you buy them, anyways. 30 years was a long time for...
  2. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    Just for a little more update. This 29 year old compressor sits in my shop and there is absolutely zero rust or corrosion on it anywhere. With the exception of the large faded Campbell Hausfeld decal on the side of the tank, you would probably never be able to tell how old it is. It looks maybe...
  3. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    Okay everyone, I first need to thank each and everyone that offered ideas, suggestions and things to check. And I did everyone of those ideas as well. However, I am here to say I got it fixed and the stupidity of me was the fault all along. I noticed every time I tried to make it work, it...
  4. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    The plug isn't warm, but I haven't felt the cord itself. I will do that as well as the voltage and current tests at the motor... Thanks for the idea.
  5. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    Okay, let me take each suggestion as you wrote them. First, thanks very much for the reply and suggestions. I honestly appreciate everyone that comes up with any idea. It is a twin cylinder quality cast iron setup but single stage. Not double stage. When I start from an empty tank it only...
  6. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    Amazingly when I installed all new gaskets and reed plate, the cylinders still had faint crosshatch on them. I thought that was interesting after near 30 years of work. Also, thanks for the suggestions and response. I do appreciate it.
  7. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    Actually I did think about that. And after seeing the serious pitting, I bought a new one and installed. But I also took the old one and took it apart to file those contacts back to like new. I guess I could use it for a backup...if ever. So the contactors, cut out/in and unloader valve are ll...
  8. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    I will check it, but pretty sure it is okay since I moved the air compressor around to three different circuits all by itself. But I will put a volt meter on it for sure... I keep thinking piston ring problems, but I would think if either ring blow by or rings worn out it would continue running...
  9. gm280

    Need Air Compressor Help

    Okay, I am hoping that someone in iboat land has an answer or has come across this situation. Here goes... I have a 1995 4.5HP (yeah right) 115 volt 20 gallon Campbell Hausfeld air compressor. And until about two months ago it worked perfect and did everything I asked of it. Then one day it...
  10. gm280

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    This one hit home... I actually had that happen to me. I totally rebuilt a SB 350 and was very proud of how it turned out with hop up cam, headers, pistons, ported and polished heads and the usual. It was really fun to drive. Well one of my co-workers poured a quart of oil under my truck in the...
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    Heck, I have a hard time just saying quantum mechanics...let alone understand it!
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    And it all seemed like I merely closed my eyes and opened them up and was told it was all finished...
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    I know it is hard to believe, but the hard part is what you are going through now. The actually procedure (that sounds better for some reason) is a snap. Both my wife and I had it done last year and we are golden for a long time now...
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    No truer words have been spoken...
  15. gm280

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    redneck joe, I can check, but I think the age pretty much rules that out... But I will check anyway, never know... Thumbs Up!
  16. gm280

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    Ha thanks jbcurt00:, I am looking that way as well. If I can find one that the bolt pattern works, It could be the way to go. I could also build an adapter plate too... Thumbs Up!
  17. gm280

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    Ha dingbat, thanks. I'll check into them. I was actually looking at replace motors that would bolt up to the winch as well... Thumbs Up!
  18. gm280

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    I guess this is the place to post this question since it is the Random Forum... I recently was given a 10,000 pull Harbor Freight Winch, Road Shock! Well it was in pretty bad shape. So I disassembled it and started cleaning and straightening everything out. Started looking pretty good. Than I...
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    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    That picture brings back memories of when I was a kid living in Pennsylvania. (had to spell it out just to see if I still knew how). ANd shortly after that fluffy white stuff came gray crap that coated ever moving thing on the roads the exact same color... Can't say I miss it...but nice to...
  20. gm280

    Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

    You really need to be carful around there. Somebody, or something, turned them to stone. Didn't see any snake-headed people did you? As for the claustrophobic situations, I don't have them. I crawled through "worm tubes" (tunnels) in caves where I had to use my feet to move forward because you...
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