Slapperbar
Retired Navy NDT Examiner
What? EEhhhhh?
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speak up sonny! 
chulisohombre
1/2 ton status
wow that sux man.what do they make those there fandangled things for that cover your head.hel mets oh yeah thats it.haha.i cant remember the amount of times i get under the truck and am too lazy to go back out and get the helmet.just close eyes and tach and hope for the best.
toner91
Registered Member
Well, hopefully the rest of us can "live and learn" from YOUR mistakes. Did I say that loud enough? Sorry, just got to get it in while I can. hope it heals good.
sweet fancy moses...........
Very nice. Lucky man!
chulisohombre
1/2 ton status
wont have to worry about air now.man thats nice lookin.
lak2004
1/2 ton status
how loud is it?
I'm making foot isolators for it now, I'll fire it up tomorrow.... i expect it to be pretty quite, as it's a 2 stage... the quality looks OUTSTANDING... 
then again, anything will be quite compared to the old screaming banshee...
then again, anything will be quite compared to the old screaming banshee...
well, being the impatient SOB that I am, I just went down and finished the feet and wired it up.....
SWEET! pretty damn quite... can barely hear it running outside the garage doors.... egggggggsellent!
SWEET! pretty damn quite... can barely hear it running outside the garage doors.... egggggggsellent!
Slapperbar
Retired Navy NDT Examiner
I knew you couldn't leave it alone.
lak2004
1/2 ton status
nice! way to get it done! i like the one at my shop because its on the other side of the wall and i can rarely hear with music on.
yeah, if i get some motivation at some point i may enclose that section under the stairs... wall out between the comp and furnace, then over to the angled stairwall with a door... insulated walls... you'll barely hear it in the garage at that point...
sunday is clean the dungeon day.. need to put up some new shelves too.. always motivating to work on the rig when the shop is clean and organized.... hopefully in the couple weeks I'll be ordering my headers...
sunday is clean the dungeon day.. need to put up some new shelves too.. always motivating to work on the rig when the shop is clean and organized.... hopefully in the couple weeks I'll be ordering my headers...
SWEET! pretty damn quite... can barely hear it running outside the garage doors.... egggggggsellent!
It'll be twice as loud in a week to 10 days.
Pics of foot isolators please....
I've been browsing the McMaster Carr catalog looking for some type of fluid type or soft rubber isolation foot that would work on mine.
From what I've heard, there are two things that can be done to really quiet down a compressor: Isolation feet and a better pre-muffler on the intake side. Apparently Quincy sells a more expensive intake muffler which gets rid of a lot of the whistling/suction noise but I haven't come across it yet.
I know that I get a lot of noise just from the vibration coupling into the concrete floor too, so I'm sure either countermeasure would help a lot.
ps. Hey you have your belt/disc sander in the place I do!
I've been browsing the McMaster Carr catalog looking for some type of fluid type or soft rubber isolation foot that would work on mine.
From what I've heard, there are two things that can be done to really quiet down a compressor: Isolation feet and a better pre-muffler on the intake side. Apparently Quincy sells a more expensive intake muffler which gets rid of a lot of the whistling/suction noise but I haven't come across it yet.
I know that I get a lot of noise just from the vibration coupling into the concrete floor too, so I'm sure either countermeasure would help a lot.
ps. Hey you have your belt/disc sander in the place I do!
all you need to do is hit up your local retread truck tire shop.
get 4 scrap squares of retread rubber. and slide under each foot.
and if you plum the inlet outside or to another room it will be real quiet. seen lots of guys do this and makes a big diffrence.
get 4 scrap squares of retread rubber. and slide under each foot.
and if you plum the inlet outside or to another room it will be real quiet. seen lots of guys do this and makes a big diffrence.
Cornfield creations
1/2 ton status
We just got an Atlas-Copco screw compressor for our shop. LOVE IT. It's soo quiet and hardly runs compared to the 20 yr old one we had that you could hear in the whole shop.
Cornfield creations
1/2 ton status
I like the v-twin look of the compressor. What is that, and S&S? lol
Didn't even know Brett read this thread....
Greg, as he mentioned, any HD rubber piece would work well enough... I'd imagine conveyor belt would be good too.... what I used was leftover hunks of my bedmat...
mounted on the full underside of 2 pieces of pressure-treated wood, then squares under each foot...
one thing i should note that Quincy recommends that i did not do is, they say to run studs, and double nut above the mounting flange, leaving the bottom nut slightly loose to the foot... I understand why they would want it that way, but the lags they had it mounted to the pallet with where so nice, i said screw it and used those....
doubt it'll make much difference if any... especially with 2 seperate layers of rubber, and the wood to dampen it...
one thing i did on my old unit was to put a hotwater heater blanket around the tank... that helps a bunch with noise too... tho i wont be doing that this time as the blue quincy is too sexy as is....
i had seen something on the Quincy site about the intake kit but didn't investigate it.. now having run it, a fair amount of the noise DOES come from the intake.... I may consider it, as i can't plumb the intake anywhere else... but i'm pretty certain if i enclose that area, i wont hear much ofd anything.. and honestly i'd prefer that, mainly for the reason the damn thing is so clean, i'd like to keep it that way... as is, the dungeon will have it covered in schtuff in no time...
one more.....
oh, and as seen in the first pic.... something i REALLY dig is the fact it doesn't have some stupid petcock buried under the bottom.... plumbed to that nice valve..... i wont be going with an automatic drain, i'm pretty good about that, and with that valve it'll be easy peezy....
the dungeon got a GOOD cleaning this weekend.. not everything, but it's VASTLY improved.. back to work next weekend! 
Greg, as he mentioned, any HD rubber piece would work well enough... I'd imagine conveyor belt would be good too.... what I used was leftover hunks of my bedmat...
mounted on the full underside of 2 pieces of pressure-treated wood, then squares under each foot...
one thing i should note that Quincy recommends that i did not do is, they say to run studs, and double nut above the mounting flange, leaving the bottom nut slightly loose to the foot... I understand why they would want it that way, but the lags they had it mounted to the pallet with where so nice, i said screw it and used those....
doubt it'll make much difference if any... especially with 2 seperate layers of rubber, and the wood to dampen it...
one thing i did on my old unit was to put a hotwater heater blanket around the tank... that helps a bunch with noise too... tho i wont be doing that this time as the blue quincy is too sexy as is....
i had seen something on the Quincy site about the intake kit but didn't investigate it.. now having run it, a fair amount of the noise DOES come from the intake.... I may consider it, as i can't plumb the intake anywhere else... but i'm pretty certain if i enclose that area, i wont hear much ofd anything.. and honestly i'd prefer that, mainly for the reason the damn thing is so clean, i'd like to keep it that way... as is, the dungeon will have it covered in schtuff in no time...
one more.....
oh, and as seen in the first pic.... something i REALLY dig is the fact it doesn't have some stupid petcock buried under the bottom.... plumbed to that nice valve..... i wont be going with an automatic drain, i'm pretty good about that, and with that valve it'll be easy peezy....
the dungeon got a GOOD cleaning this weekend.. not everything, but it's VASTLY improved.. back to work next weekend!
