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I Think This Is A Compressor
I think this is an old compressor of some type can anyone confirm.
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Looks like a pressure or vacuum vessel for fluids. It has a sight glass. Is that gauge pressure or vacuum? Is there anything being driven by that cross-shaft across the top? The thing running in the bearings with grease cups - what is the left end connected to?
Originally Posted by
johndief
I think this is an old compressor of some type can anyone confirm.
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Originally Posted by
Poodle Head Mikey
Looks like a pressure or vacuum vessel for fluids. It has a sight glass. Is that gauge pressure or vacuum? Is there anything being driven by that cross-shaft across the top? The thing running in the bearings with grease cups - what is the left end connected to?
It is not running or hooked up to anything. It is in a compressor room of and old general store in a small town. Everything in this compressor room has been abandoned. it has bastian blessing on the tag or puffer hubbard i can't
remember which, both of them made ice cream freezers long ago that's what makes me think it is a compressor. But I don't know what else they made.
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Can you get some more pics? Shots of the top and all around the sides?
What is under that base? Can this thing you pictured have been just-a-part of something else? The top of some other vessel or machine? All those bolts sure makes it look more like a pressure flange than it does a simple mount base.
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Originally Posted by
johndief
It is not running or hooked up to anything. It is in a compressor room of and old general store in a small town. Everything in this compressor room has been abandoned. it has bastian blessing on the tag or puffer hubbard i can't
remember which, both of them made ice cream freezers long ago that's what makes me think it is a compressor. But I don't know what else they made.
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When faced with the choice between changing one's mind, and proving that there is no need to do so, most tend to get busy on the proof.
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Originally Posted by
Poodle Head Mikey
Can you get some more pics? Shots of the top and all around the sides?
What is under that base? Can this thing you pictured have been just-a-part of something else? The top of some other vessel or machine? All those bolts sure makes it look more like a pressure flange than it does a simple mount base.
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Next time I am there I will get more pictures.
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That there belongs in a Museum !
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Was there ever a steam boiler in the place?
Could that have been a vacuum pump.
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Ever work on one that was setup well and working right? Steam drive vacuum pumps. A few ounces of steam pressure. Everything silky smooth and pleasant in the mechanical room and silent even heat everywhere throughout the building.
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Originally Posted by
RLJN
Was there ever a steam boiler in the place?
Could that have been a vacuum pump.
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It looks like a still. Is this in Kentucky?
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Definitely some kind of belt driven pump. Old. There was a flower shop in an ancient bldg around here that had a belt driven compressor, both long since gone. Worked on it twice. It's been a long time ago...think it used R-12.
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Looks like part of a dry cleaning equipment. Worked on a couple of things that looked very much like that.
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Soda fountain carbonator. Very interesting. I wonder how it actually worked. Maybe it used dry ice?
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Thanks. How did you figure out it was a carbonator? I asked the business owner if I could buy it from him and he agreed.
hopefully at some point I will have it here at the shop to play with.
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Originally Posted by
dschiffer
Soda fountain carbonator. Very interesting. I wonder how it actually worked. Maybe it used dry ice?
Makes sense, Bastian Blessing, made dipping cabinets. I worked on a few of them at Friendly's back in the day.
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What the chances that the flower shop was and old A&W or Dog N Sud Drive Inn at one time? It's an old carbonator that you would find in an old Root Beer stand.
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I ran into a carbonator once at a house. Hard to tell by looking at it.
Also hard to tell how it worked.
If you can get a deal on it do it. I once was given a hot water percolator. Looked like a diving bell.
Coal was fed in the bottom and hot water raised in a thermo siphon to a holding tank.
When I built a house I used the part of the idea to have constant hot water without a pump.
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Originally Posted by
hvacker
. . . I once was given a hot water percolator. Looked like a diving bell. Coal was fed in the bottom and hot water raised in a thermo siphon to a holding tank . . .
Did it look like this:
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