Category Archive: Air Compressor

Feb 17 2012

On Draining Air Compressors

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February 17, 2012

I’ve probably told this story before, but where I used to work, we bought a humidity chamber for calibrating the humidity sensor on one of my products. Right in the operations manual it specified that the 5 gallon tank on the integral air compressor needed to be drained every X hours of use. To make …

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Nov 04 2011

Fixing My Air Compressor

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Air Compressor

by benjamen

November 4, 2011

A few weeks ago, I noticed that my air compressor wasn’t recovering as fast as it should. It’s a two-cylinder, single-stage model and one of the cylinders was actually blowing air out of the intake instead of sucking air in. Since it was still operational, I made a note to myself …

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Jun 15 2011

Bird Feeder

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Air Compressor, Bird house, Cedar, Finish Nailer, Miter Saw, Plexiglas, Table Saw

by benjamen

June 15, 2011

* I’m experimenting with different ways of presenting projects, so if the flickr slideshow doesn’t show up on the feed, you’ll have to click through to the website. Last year, I had to throw away one of our little plastic bird feeders; it just couldn’t stand the test of time and weather. I figured rather …

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