I have a 4 cfm / 0.75 hp Clarke compressor that I bought decades ago - it was my first compressor when I was a callow youth.
Nowadays it rarely gets used - dragged out at Christmas as it's small enough to bring in the house to blow up balloons.
I've a job tomorrow fixing a lamp post involving chemical anchors and I thought its ideal for blowing the drilling dust out of the holes and easily fits in a wheel barrow to get to the concrete base. So this evening I thought I'd load up the barrow with all the tools so when the gang are here to lift the post into place everything would be ready - luckily I tried the compressor.
Plugged it in, starts to run ok, then flames from near the start capacitor. OK easy fix blown capacitor. NO, the caps wires have perished and are burning away merrily
Amazingly it's wired in rubber coated cable (I probably bought it in 1976 so well after TRS had ceased being used). Quick re-wiring job and it's good to go, but quite dramatic at the time.
Andrew
Nowadays it rarely gets used - dragged out at Christmas as it's small enough to bring in the house to blow up balloons.
I've a job tomorrow fixing a lamp post involving chemical anchors and I thought its ideal for blowing the drilling dust out of the holes and easily fits in a wheel barrow to get to the concrete base. So this evening I thought I'd load up the barrow with all the tools so when the gang are here to lift the post into place everything would be ready - luckily I tried the compressor.
Plugged it in, starts to run ok, then flames from near the start capacitor. OK easy fix blown capacitor. NO, the caps wires have perished and are burning away merrily
Amazingly it's wired in rubber coated cable (I probably bought it in 1976 so well after TRS had ceased being used). Quick re-wiring job and it's good to go, but quite dramatic at the time.
Andrew
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