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Need a fixer-upper air compressor? LINK

3/9/19, 5:02 PM #1

Henry Higginbotham
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Need a fixer-upper air compressor? *LINK*

Henry Higginbotham

I didn't even know you could make meth in an air compressor.

https://knoxville.craigslist.org/tls/d/knoxville-air-compressor-in-need-of-tank/6835108581.html

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3/10/19, 5:38 PM #2

Kneale Brownson
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Re: That's Rust, looks like.

Kneale Brownson

I replaced a tank on an otherwise functional portable air compressor before I learned to drain a compressor tank after each use if intermittently used (I have continuous drains on compressors in regular use). Tank developed a leak I stopped with a screw and rubber washer and then, within a month, became swiss cheese-like on the bottom.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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3/10/19, 10:48 PM #3

Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio

A friend had one explode like that. Shrapnel put him in the hospital for several days, and wiped out the whole side of his Corvette.

Dangerous stuff!

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3/11/19, 1:14 AM #4

Howard in Toronto
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Howard in Toronto

Wow. That'd be enough to scare fertilizer out me...

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