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13th December 2013, 05:57 PM #16
I had a similar issue, burnt out. It was a great compressor when it ran. I miss it. That was back around 94. My replacement was a 10 cfm
Now I have an aluminium one not sure the size, may use the tank of the old one as an air reservoir. The new one has twin motors and 4 pumps. Nice and quiet. Does not go much above 110 psi where as the 1st one would go up to 140 psi from memory.
A friend of mine has one of those cheap $99 jobs hooked up to a 90kg gas cylinder as an air reservoir. With the reservoir it keeps up with the sand blaster he has. He only uses it in shortish periods
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13th December 2013, 09:37 PM #17SENIOR MEMBER
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McMillan 3 (and I think; a bit) hp.
"Claimed" 16cfm in a perfect world, the planets all align and no solar flares etc etc.
Probably around 13-14. Power it from a dedicated 15amp line; but it sucks some power and causes light flickering in the shed and house which is on another circuit.
Ken
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15th December 2013, 07:54 PM #19Banned
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Ingersols and Beavers
I have an Ingersol Rand which I bought sometime in the mid 90s, still have the compressor never had a problem with it, never changed the oil and never topped it up. Around the same time a friend gave me a couple of Arnold spray guns and a couple of touch up guns which I eventually threw away and replaced with a couple of Stars. I now have a set of gravity feed guns, nice finish and a high flow rate but very cumbersome, I’ll be going back to suction guns sometime in the future. Back in the early 70s, when compressors cost a motza, I bought a CIG Little Beaver, marvellous for spraying trailers and stuff like that, high flow rate but a heavy orange peel (very good for cobwebbing). I recycled it into a blower for a coke fired forge years later. Believe it or not I used it to spray show bikes, my elbows are paying for it now though. I won two trophies for my efforts - Best Paint for the one I painted with the Beaver around 1976 in Townsville and the other in Darwin in 99 for the one I painted with the Ingersol (Best Pre 83 Triumph).
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15th December 2013, 10:50 PM #21
My dad had a little Beaver from Gig and borrowed a nail gun to do the picket fence when they built the house about 1988. He accidentally shot that cat with that nail gun. The compressor didn't have a pressure blow off valve or something so the gun if sitting for a while would fire it self. Needless to say he never used the gun after that and not sure what happened to the compressor. Mum probably threw it at him for hurting her cat…. It did survive by the way.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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16th December 2013, 07:49 PM #22Banned
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Beavers ain't Beavers
Must have been a different Little Beaver to the two I had. Some vacuums from the 50s and 60s came with spray guns, not necessarily for paint, but they had no trigger and no controls. The Little Beaver I had worked on the same principle, blowing some air through the venturi, the remaining air diverted to the pot to assist the venturi action. The paint was atomised in the normal way. The hose was 1" in diameter similar to a pool pump hose. The gun had a trigger and paint volume control but nothing else. The pressure was such, a thumb over the end would stop the air flow.
Little Beaver Spray Gun commercial [1983] - YouTube
My first Beaver was a little different to this one, the gun was aluminium and the blower unit was cylindrical and made of metal but had no gun rest.
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16th December 2013, 08:42 PM #23
I remember the name little beaver, and the compressor was definitely CIG but looked nothing like that. So I have confused something.
It was one piece and silver with fins on the outside. Not a tank with the mechanics sitting on top.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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16th December 2013, 08:46 PM #24
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