Nick Fisher
10-23-2011, 1:43 PM
I hope this is the right forum for this,
So I just bought a Curtis Air compressor for $150. It was made in 1990. A little old, but I figured that it would still work well with some TLC. I hooked it up to a 110v for a couple of seconds to make sure that it ran. It did, but we figured that it must be wired for 220v because it ran fairly slow. As you can see from the photos, it has two pumps. They are a ES-05. The motors are only 1/3 HP. When I looked these up online, they appeared to produce 1.9 ACFM(can some one check me on this?).
Does that mean that when the compressor is running, it will only produce 3.8 CFM max? I was hoping for a lot more from this compressor. I have to do some work to this thing before I can charge it up and test it with a stopwatch to get the actual CFM's. I don't want to put any more money into it if it will only be giving me 3.8 CFM's(I'll just sell it as is). Does any one have any thoughts on this? I don't want to go through the hassle of wiring my shop a new 220v(don't have one right now) if I don't have to. But would gladly do it if this air compressor produced more than just 3.8CFM. I also have to go buy some adapters, the out line looks to be 3/4in, and I don't have an adapter for that. Any thoughts of the capability of this machine before I spend any more money? Thanks all,
Nick
The photos are of the Air compressor, the motor label, the wiring box(how do I switch this to a 120v?), the tank label, and the drain valve on the side
I think the drain valve was broken off, and idea how to fix this? The only nipple extractor i can find is too large, hopefully one of those Grab-it bits will do the trick. I don't think I'll ever use it(there is another drain pipe lower down on the side), I just don't want it to leak air.
The photos were posted at photo bucket(I couldn't get the attachment thing to work, dead link when I clicked on the attachment button.
Thanks
Nick
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...compressor.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtisaircompressor.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...sTankLabel.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/CurtisTankLabel.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...motorlabel.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtismotorlabel.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...isairdrain.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtisairdrain.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...swiringbox.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtiswiringbox.jpg)
So I just bought a Curtis Air compressor for $150. It was made in 1990. A little old, but I figured that it would still work well with some TLC. I hooked it up to a 110v for a couple of seconds to make sure that it ran. It did, but we figured that it must be wired for 220v because it ran fairly slow. As you can see from the photos, it has two pumps. They are a ES-05. The motors are only 1/3 HP. When I looked these up online, they appeared to produce 1.9 ACFM(can some one check me on this?).
Does that mean that when the compressor is running, it will only produce 3.8 CFM max? I was hoping for a lot more from this compressor. I have to do some work to this thing before I can charge it up and test it with a stopwatch to get the actual CFM's. I don't want to put any more money into it if it will only be giving me 3.8 CFM's(I'll just sell it as is). Does any one have any thoughts on this? I don't want to go through the hassle of wiring my shop a new 220v(don't have one right now) if I don't have to. But would gladly do it if this air compressor produced more than just 3.8CFM. I also have to go buy some adapters, the out line looks to be 3/4in, and I don't have an adapter for that. Any thoughts of the capability of this machine before I spend any more money? Thanks all,
Nick
The photos are of the Air compressor, the motor label, the wiring box(how do I switch this to a 120v?), the tank label, and the drain valve on the side
I think the drain valve was broken off, and idea how to fix this? The only nipple extractor i can find is too large, hopefully one of those Grab-it bits will do the trick. I don't think I'll ever use it(there is another drain pipe lower down on the side), I just don't want it to leak air.
The photos were posted at photo bucket(I couldn't get the attachment thing to work, dead link when I clicked on the attachment button.
Thanks
Nick
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...compressor.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtisaircompressor.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...sTankLabel.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/CurtisTankLabel.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...motorlabel.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtismotorlabel.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...isairdrain.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtisairdrain.jpg)
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...swiringbox.jpg (http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m193/Lucky1406/Curtiswiringbox.jpg)