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Posted by Lloyd E. Sponenburgh on May 14, 2008, 3:04 pm
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:06:35 -0700 (PDT), stryped
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>>I have a Craftsman 30 gallon 5 horsepower 110 volt air compressor. It
>>puts out 6 cfm at 90.
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> Break there. You have a "5 SEARS Horsepower" compressor. "Peak HP"
> is not the same thing as actual HP - it's what the motor will put out
> when so overloaded it's almost stalled, and right before it burns up.
Yeah... A friend gave me a fairly new Huskey 5HP (110v) job because "It
runs slow".
I peeled off the covers to discover a interestingly built pump (which I
saved for other things) and a motor no larger than my fist. This thing
was wound with only a few dozen turns of about #16 wire, had less metal
in it than a good syncronous clock motor, and had one lobe of the
armature completely shorted.
He had about ten total hours of USE on the compressor... probably 30-40
minutes of run-time.
These things are more junky than cheap vacuum cleaners.
Now... the 26-gallon tank on wheels with a "space saving" stand-up
feature made a dandy portable air tank. I actually have a large enough
porta-air now to get my tractor limping back out of the pasture if I get
a flat. <G>
LLoyd
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