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Shop build. HEAT!

my buddy is using normal un-used shop space with his big items .

shelf above work area will have the air compressor up there with a drain out the bottom with a hose to a bucket . and other big storage up there also .
 
I think your compressor idea sounds good... But I have a feeling it will prove to be a bad one.
Even with vibration dampers the vibrations that do get through, from a multi hundred pound divice having on it, will essentially turn your wall into a giant speaker...
It should be mounted on the floor with nothing solid connecting the compressor to the wall next to it.
That's one of the reasons you put a flex line between a compressor and the hard mounted lines on a wall.
Keeping things off the floor is awesome if feasible, but not a good idea for some things.
 
shady said:
I think your compressor idea sounds good... But I have a feeling it will prove to be a bad one.
Even with vibration dampers the vibrations that do get through, from a multi hundred pound divice having on it, will essentially turn your wall into a giant speaker...
It should be mounted on the floor with nothing solid connecting the compressor to the wall next to it.
That's one of the reasons you put a flex line between a compressor and the hard mounted lines on a wall.
Keeping things off the floor is awesome if feasible, but not a good idea for some things.
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I know your just a city slicker, but farmers have been putting their compressors in their lofts, or high on shelfs for 40 plus years with no ill affects.
I literally couldn't count how many setups I have seen like this. Including my uncles shop. It's been elevated on a rickety plywood shelf for YEARS. It's fine.

And @ktmoutfront, my old man built an exhaust for his out of some tube and pipe with some insulation (think glasspack) and drilled a hole to the outside to exhaust it. Just like a car. No reason to spend money on all that material to build an outhouse.
Still some noise, but still low enough you can talk and not have to turn it off.


Just google compressor exhaust.....
 
Far from a city slicker. Grew up on farms.. farmers don't care about how I our chit is becauseost of em have lost a 1/3 of thier hearing lol. In a closed insulated shop, it will create more noise that mounted on the floor in an enclosure by far.
 
click my man cave link below then air compressor build .

i found lots of good info on other sites and used them for my 2 units i built . and there QUIET . . it blows peoples minds when they here them run compared to others they have heard .
 
sweetk30 said:
click my man cave link below then air compressor build .

i found lots of good info on other sites and used them for my 2 units i built . and there QUIET . . it blows peoples minds when they here them run compared to others they have heard .
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waste of time, whatever you did..... shady will have a better answer...
 
beags86 said:
waste of time, whatever you did..... shady will have a better answer...
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You said it could be mounted on a wall, not that it would be quieter... I never said it couldn't be mounted to a wall. Totally good idea for space.
I pointed out that it's not the quietest solution is all. Your confusing what was brought up.

It's simple physics. You take a large solid mass, that vibrates alot, and mount it to something less dense and solid, it will vibrate that too. Meaning the large wood wall. If the wall vibrates even a little it will resonate... Creating sound. If you build a proper enclosure it will quiet down a lot yes... But mounted to the wall versus the concrete floor, with a flex hose and proper enclosure again. The wall mount will be louder.

Thats All I was trying to to point out.
If Eric is willing to put up with the extra sound it's his choice. I just wanted to make sure he realized that it would do that.
A pancake or 10 gallon compressor wouldn't be a big deal... That's NOT what he has though.
 
I don't think it will resonate too much Rick. But yes I'd be willing to put up with it. It's fairly quite already, low rpm type of compressor.

I do have a couple of ideas for further isolating it from the wall but since I don't use a ton of air and when I do I typically am making a bit of racket anyway. The noise is not the big concern. It's the space
 
Your shop is looking amazing Eric. Looks so good all painted up. I need to come up there and check it out one of these days when I have a life outside of work again.
 
jekquistk5 said:
Get some covers on those outlets
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Yah need to do that. I screwed up it seems every opening on those outlets. So kind of been waiting to see if I can fix that easy. I can't so I need to put the covers back on and deal with em one at a time
 
LNielson said:
Your shop is looking amazing Eric. Looks so good all painted up. I need to come up there and check it out one of these days when I have a life outside of work again.
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Anytime sir, anytime. But we should plan it out and you should bring the wife and we can do dinner too
 
blazinzuk said:
Yah need to do that. I screwed up it seems every opening on those outlets. So kind of been waiting to see if I can fix that easy. I can't so I need to put the covers back on and deal with em one at a time
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Minimal expanding foam sprayed around them to seal. Then buy the oversized covers.
 
they make oversize covers .

and if there not big like you need make a fancy yet simple trim ring out of something and then put a cover over that for a bit of extra bling that people will think you did on purpose .
 
sweetk30 said:
they make oversize covers .

and if there not big like you need make a fancy yet simple trim ring out of something and then put a cover over that for a bit of extra bling that people will think you did on purpose .
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So there's a couple I really screwed up. I bought some jumbo covers well a couple but still doesn't make everything uniform. Plus I gotta space the outlets out a bit. So yah. That's my plan except I gotta space all of them out so that adds a bit. I have some 1/8 hardboard I was gonna cut stuff out of but I don't have a jigsaw. Blah blah blah excuse excuse excuse.

So I'll put the normal covers on right now, get the hardboard cut, get it painted then buy spacers. Then fix em all.
 
So if any of you guys are on garage journal, go read my thread over there.

Pretty sure if I build the sir compressor shelf I'm going to kill nuns, orphans AND puppies.

Also I'm kind of being a dick over there. I understand doing it right but the safety mavens over there drive me a bit nuts.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=405926
 
I don’t think some of those guys really get the “built not bought” mindset that we have here.

Screw it, shit’ll hold get it done.
 
Smokinthehippies said:
I don’t think some of those guys really get the “built not bought” mindset that we have here.

Screw it, shit’ll hold get it done.
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blazinzuk said:
So if any of you guys are on garage journal, go read my thread over there.

Pretty sure if I build the sir compressor shelf I'm going to kill nuns, orphans AND puppies.

Also I'm kind of being a dick over there. I understand doing it right but the safety mavens over there drive me a bit nuts.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=405926
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I posted a picture of my wood garage walls I had been working on and I'm pretty sure everyone thought my garage was going to burn down, starting the worse known to man wild fire, that would end up burning down north America and then the world, ceasing human population all together.

Here's a little sample, of my pending World Doom.

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