Category Archive: Air Compressor

Feb 17 2012

On Draining Air Compressors

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 …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://workshop.electronsmith.com/content/draining-air-compressors/

Nov 04 2011

Fixing My Air Compressor

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 …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://workshop.electronsmith.com/content/fixing-my-air-compressor/

Jun 15 2011

Bird Feeder

* 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 …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://workshop.electronsmith.com/content/bird-feeder/