I have a friend that turned a VW bug engine in to a portable compressor. he
says it works great. it runs on two cylinders and the others are used to
compress air, he found the plans on the internet. If anyone is is
seriously interested, I'll try to contact him and get the link for the
plans.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of
> josiah.bartlett@exgate.tek.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:21 PM
> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [oletrucks] sand blaster
>
>
> Anyone made an air compressor out of a spare engine? That
> will give you all
> the air you need. You just split the intake and exhaust
> manifolds so that
> half of the cylinders run the engine and half of them pump
> air. You do every
> other cylinder in the firing order so that the engine runs
> evenly. It works
> best on heads without siamesed ports though. Usually the
> engines are either
> SBC's or old flathead 4's, the Willys/Continental 134 being popular.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Shier [mailto:daveshier@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:10 PM
> To: oletrucks@autox.team.net; bob_keeland@usgs.gov
> Cc: gnew@rmi.net; gnew@mindspring.com
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] sand blaster
>
>
> We am going through the same process and looking for air
> compressors and
> sand blasters. We just bought an old wrecking yard in
> Southerrn Colorado
> and are looking at similar equipment. We seem to b e
> accumulating some old
>
> trucks also and looking for advice on compressors and blasters.
> Sincerely,
> Dave Shier
> daveshier@hotmail.com
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> 1941 and 1959
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