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!Need Help! with compressor part.

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Greg Fishback

06-18-2003 23:16:41




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I have acquired a vintage air compressor that runs so much better and quiter than my newer Craftsman, I decided to keep it. It has not been well card for, and I need to change the oil. There is no oil plug, only this glass cylinder mounted atop a home-made stem. There is only a valve on the top like a bicycle tire valve. It seals up but has a small air hole in the top. It's made by Jacuzzi and it's called a "super charger". I would greatly appreciate if someone can tell me what it is, how to use it. Logically thinking, it seems like it should mount lower to reflect teh oil level in the housing but that doesn't explain the pressure valve.

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Roger

06-19-2003 20:58:34




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 Re: !Need Help! with compressor part. in reply to Greg Fishback, 06-18-2003 23:16:41  
The glass cylinder looks like a later add on. What it's purpose is? No idea. Maybe a way to add oil? Looks like an old refrigerant pump to me, considering all the bolts. I'd pull the glass off, put in a pipe nipple and plug for future oil changes. I'd also unscrew the sight glass and give it a good cleaning too. Some types of these pumps (Brunners for one) had an oil fill hole right on top of the head.

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Greg Fishback

06-20-2003 08:09:56




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 Re: Re: !Need Help! with compressor part. in reply to Roger, 06-19-2003 20:58:34  
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I did almost exactly that. I used some pipe to extend the mechanics and give myself a fill tube. Although I re-
mounted the device. Any idea how much oil this thing should take? I dumped out almost 2/3 of a quart. Do old compressor pumps have oil pumps inside? Or do they bathe in oil. I added one quart and it still knocked a little bit after it ran for a while. I put in a second quart and it all seems fine. That seems like an awful lot of oil. Any input?

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Roger

06-26-2003 14:23:56




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 Re: Re: Re: !Need Help! with compressor part. in reply to Greg Fishback, 06-20-2003 08:09:56  
The sight glass (in the crankcase) should be half full or a bit higher, in most all of the pumps I have seen. I wouldn't worry about hurting it from too much oil. Most likely this is a splash lubricated pump, as I see no evidence of an oil pump. However, I have worked on some Westinghouse compressors that had a small plunger type oil pump running off the very center of the crankshaft, so that is not necessarily proof of anything. Maybe someone was using this glass cylinder as an automatic oil adder or something. I have worked on two old DeVilbiss compressors lately that had something similar, but they were purpose built and had a check valve type of arrangement so as not to over oil the pump. They were HVAC compressors that see very little maintenance.

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