Got air ?

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Water cooled, pressure lubed, direct drive, unloader equipped air compressor mounted on a 650D belt pulley gearbox.

AC comes from a Detroit Diesel. Adaptor is home made from an 8" to 6" weld type pipe reducer using a welder, lathe and Bridgeport.

I don't think you can buy anything like this at Home Depot.

There's some pretty good thinking gone into that one. What will that churn out for CFM's @ what pressure? Also what do you three gauges show? Where does the coupler come from, is that part of the original setup from the truck engine? I don't imagine that that slows that old 650 down much Sam

Now that is slick!

I'll be interested in seeing the answers to some of tractorsam's questions.

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The compressor is a Bendix-Westinghouse Tu-Flo 501. It has 272 CC displacement. Belt pulley no-load RPM is around 780. It would work better on the smaller tractors because the Cub and C turn twice as fast. I didn't calculate the CFM. B-W makes units with four times the displacement using cylinders arranged in a V-4. I don't know if they are available for direct mount. In fact, I have never seen one; only pictures.

I have a similar air brake compressor on my tandem axle International truck equipped with an aerial lift. At slightly over idle, it will run an air-powered airless spray rig shooting high viscosity coal-tar paint non-stop on large tank-farm tanks and sewage clarifiers. That takes some volume as the air motor diameter is 8".

Sometimes I would run the compressor governor at over 150 psi. I'll bet it goes higher even though the air brake compressors are single stage. Single stage refrigeration (Copelematic) compressors can easily achieve 300 psi.

Two gauges are for oil pressure. I want to make sure that I am not robbing too much oil from the D-350 engine. The third gauge is air pressure.

The drive is Detroit Diesel.

Apart from having the convenience of portable air on the tractor, I will be using the air pressure to control a hydraulic valve on a hydraulic gypsy-head winch. I am getting too much rope burn when the winch is idling.

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Wardner, I can appriciate what you have constructed there. I posess a BS Industrial Engineering degree and my current occupation is a multi-craft maintenance technician. I work with a lot of industrial equipment and just this week rebuilt two Blackmer gas compressors. They have air operated unloaders and are liquid cooled by chilled water.

I have thought about using a belt driven air brake compressor to install on my tractor or Kid 8x8. Also I want to install a Zena DC welder on the same piece of equipment (most likely the Kid 8x8). The reason I would like the belt drive is because some have electric clutches.

The direct drive is awsome, but not as awsome as your bellhousing adapter. A little machine shop work goes a long way As for the Copelematic compressors, I work for Copeland building Scroll compressors up to 6.5 tons. They are used in residential, commercial, and refrigeration applications. Some of the 410-A units run close to 400 psi high side and we "burst test" them at +550 psi.

Once again, WOW! Feel free to include more pics of the compressor and some of your other homebuilt goodies.

Charles

OK Charles, here's another picture. You can go to my Photobucket site for some more recent projects. They include front mounted Fast Hitch, dual Electralls, beginings of a W-9 High Crop, and I forget what else. Punch the link.

I am planning to install a Hydro-Creeper in the 650D. I will install a second countershaft in the transmission. It will be powered with a high displacement type H CharLynn geroter motor and probably shifted with an annular air cylinder. It will all fit if I modify the right side oil gallery. I have a parts I-9 to use as a prototype and test bed. I also want to install a front PTO on my F400; the one with the front FH.

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The picture shows the 650D with a pile driver that I built several months ago. You can read all about it in the "tools" section of this site. Search on "Wardner".
This tractor has a fast hitch and forklift mast.
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That is ultra fine. an example of why we do these things. Congratulations, it is exciting to see. A set of prints might encourae others! JimN