Those old compressors are great. My wife bought me one from a garage sale made by Packard in 1956. Brought it home and replaced the belt and it runs better than a new one. Love the oil ring inside the block of the Packard piston. I runs in a pool of oil up over the ring and keeps the rod bearing lubed.
@wulfdogcat In my opinion these old compressors are so superior to the noise makers they make today. However currently I do use a newer compressor and its loud and slow to recover, only good thing about it is the crankcase is oil filled and has a sight glass. I ended up not being able to use this compressor as a unit, I found the tank had been weakend by rust.
i can tell you quite a bit about motors. its a repulsion induction motor. inside the motor there is a governor weight that actually either shorts out the commutator once the motor reaches full speed or it moves the brushes away from the commutator. the mechanism needs some WD-40 because its sticking and responding too slowly. easy fix though. check out some of my repulshion induction motors to see how they work
The motor on mine is a B-Line. I actually ended up scrapping the air tank unfortunately after a few pin hole leaks appeared while bringing it up to full pressure. I surley know what you mean about quality. This machine was so silent and smooth, nothing compares today.
Yeah I worry about that one mine, but I can't see any rust on the outside, but I know it's probably on the inside. The modern ones have taps to drain them. Probably worth it to get a modern tank and put the old stuff on it. Have you ever heard of those feroweld rods by lincoln? They sure work good, course so do the nickel rods I love welding with them.
I think I have one like that it was left by my 97 year old tenement It sound like the brushes are worn down and maybe the stator is ground down a bit . Mine has 2 brushes copper winding and looks like yours a bit. You can set them
