Compressor stand build with pics. Finally completed(a while ago) and posted

[rdn2blazer]

I finally got my compressor running after three years of living in our house. I want to raise it up so I can more easily access the drain. So I decided to build a 24" riser. It's really a simple design. A 30" square, which is slightly bigger then the compressor tank diameter for stability. I'm welding up four legs at the corners which will have adjustable leveling feet, but will also have adjustable height ancor brackets so I can mount it to the concrete with concrete ancors and bolts.

The square frame will be at the top. I'll weld flat plate coming off the square top, sticking inboard into square frame, where the feet of the compressor are. I'll drill 1/2 holes that match the compressor feet hole pattern. I bought rubber vibration dampeners that have 1/2-13 studs sticking out both ends. They will bolt to the frame, and the other end will go up through the compressor leg holes and get a washer & nut on the top.

 

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You may have seen my band saw refurbish, this is what I was cutting in these pictures. I used my blanchard ground gang drill table that I drilled a series of 1/2-13 holes in for jig & fixture work just like this. It worked great. Everything is square and dead flat. I used a .004 shim to check everything. Nothing allowed that .004 shim to go in. So it's as square and flat as possible. I LOVE precision. It's my sickness.









Now mind you, I have not welded in three years or more. When I went to fab this up, I didn't practice welding on anything, I just went at it, and as you can see, I'm rusty as hell!!! It took just a few welds as the 3rd welding pic shows, I finally got my groove back a little. Or I got lucky . I'm making this crappy welded side the bottom, I did much better on the second side of the frame. But since I grooved the welded joints for good pepetration, I've decided to grind the welds smooth before paint so it looks clean.

 

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Here, you can see the measurement from corner to corner. It's dead square.

 

[Highpsi]

Looking good! That's a great idea to get that thing spaced up there to access that ^%$& drain fitting on bottom. Always drives me nuts when I try to drain mine too that I can never get to that thing!

Nice fab work! Man... If I tried that I'm sure I'd end up with a disaster with those perfectly calculated cuts and such.

 

[rdn2blazer]

In looking through some old threads I realized I never posted up about completing this. Here ya go. Not going to narrate. Don't remember much of it. I built this after my brain tumor and cancer issue though. Another thorough cancer ass kicking imo When and if I can get back to work, this kind of activity is tharapy for me and keeps me and my mind active for tecnical work. Although this was a log time ago and it took me weeks to complete. Probably the reason for never posting about it. It just took too long. I should be doing this kind of activity now but have way too much on my plate now to be playing. Not to mention not feeling well much lately at all. But regardless of ilness, Soon very soon I will be a fabbin.....God willing. More pictures to come...

 

[rdn2blazer]

Pics...Just gonna keep posting till I have no more. Cressent wrenches were for fine tuning so all the platform were square as possible to the frame.

 

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More...Gussets. And here I'm setting up to use a tap block to hand tap a straight hole in the jack cleats.

 

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More tapping and pics...If anybody remembers my tips and tricks thread I explain how a fourway faucet tool works awesome as a tap driver both manually and in a drill to power tap. I pulled that thread back up in the tool forum if anybody wants to take a revisit to it.

 

[rdn2blazer]

more...Don't get any better square tapped hole manually then that. And finally all scotch brited ready to rattle can

 

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more....And painted with the rubber damping isolators. Only problem is I could not find isolators with long enough threads to protrude through the compressor leg holes enough. These grab maybe three threads, and remember thats not complete full threads. Thats minimum engagement at thread start point and three rotations.

Thats how we all count but fact is it's not COMPLETE FULL thread engagement. So my solution will be to dimple down the compressor holes. Honestly it's got two nuts hand threaded on and it ain't movin anywhere. It would take a good quake to even bring it down with all the stuff around it.

 

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More...Jack Cleats. This airline kit is awesome. Recommend for sure. She's up on the riser. Of course this is from a while ago and it's fully plumbed and lines ran and I have itmes stored under the compressor. I've ran a downtube drain line nice and clean but I don't have pictures of how it is now. And very soon it will be moving. You can see the air dryer to the right.

 

[rdn2blazer]

Air Dryer. Another highly recommended item in a shop. Mandatory for a cnc mill. Threw together the shelf with free 45 degree brackets I've had for years and my passed mother's cutting board my brother made her in high school. It's use in the kitchen days are over. Had seen better days, But for a cool odd shelf in the garage. It was just what the doctor ordered. It reminds me of my mom and brother, and that the brackets were free.

Anything free always makes you feel good too. My boss where I worked at, at the time was going to scrap them anyways so I asked if I could have them, he said sure take up. Means I don't have to deal with scraping them. I tossed them into my truck and home they came. I've tried to use these a thousand times but for some reason or another they just were never quite right. This worked perfecly.