[Shop-talk] Mounting a compressor

[john niolon]

Eric... mine is a 80 gallon horizontal... original install was just sitting on a concrete slab on it’s metal feet... vibration and noise through the whole shop.  Later mounted it to two crossties (short one at each end) and it’s amazing how much noise and vibration it took away... It’s in a shed attached to the shop and out of site, so looks don’t matter.  I have to listen sometimes to tell if it’s running...   I’d mount to a couple of 6x6 or at least 4x4  Add some hockey pucks for more isolation if you want... it WILL make a huge difference

john

From: eric at megageek.com 
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 2:20 PM
To: shop-talk at Autox.Team.Net 
Subject: [Shop-talk] Mounting a compressor


I was just wonder how most people mount their vertical air compressors. 

I've always left mine on the pallet it was shipped on and that seem to work well.  

Today they delivered the new monster compressor and it's huge.  The pallet it's on is much larger then what would be needed. 

is it better to mount them on wood for free standing or is it better to bolt it down?  FWIW, I'm putting it on an asphalt floor (inside.)  But I can pour concrete if a pad is better. 

It just seems to me that having the wood helps absorbed vibrations. 

What's the 'correct' answer, and what is best practices? 

TIA!!! 

Sent from my Commodore 64 on a 2400 Baud Modem.
Eric P
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph Waldo Emerson 


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