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Re: Bolting Compressor to the floor

To: "Scott Whitehead" <swhiteh3@mediaone.net>, <nogera@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Bolting Compressor to the floor
From: "Steve Hammatt" <shammatt@sos.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:33:39 -0800
I used old hockey pucks between the floor and the
steel feet of the compressor.  Cheap isolation.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Whitehead <swhiteh3@mediaone.net>
To: nogera@juno.com <nogera@juno.com>
Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Bolting Compressor to the floor


>
>Pour the floor first, then drill holes with a masonry bit.
>Then bolt it down with masonry bolts.  Done.
>
>nogera@juno.com wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting ready to pour a  concrete slab behind the garage for a little
>> shed  to house  my compressor .  Anyone got some good ideas on bolting
>> the  compressor to the floor?  My first thought  was to imbed some studs
>> in the concrete when wet but that means 1. being spot on with the
>> placement and 2. lifting that 600 lbs(+) compressor to clear the studs.
>> Would making  a wood base which bolts to the compressor feet  and to the
>> floor work ?
>> Bob Nogueira
>


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