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Good thing no one was seriously injured. Lot of energy stored in that tank when it went.
My dad has an old Sears compressor used for painting though he only used it to pressurize the chemical tanks on a Sickles E-4 film processor. I used it for air nailers back in the day. Very quiet compressor, maybe a 1/2 HP motor, then I started hearing a "hiss" after it hit pressure. Tank had rotted through at the bottom. You guessed it, compressor had never been drained in 20+ years. I tried MIG'ing the thin spots to plug them, but kept burning through. I patched the holes with JB weld and welded a piece of 16-gauge stock well past the thin spots, has held up to very limited (tire pumping) use sense. But I think we'll retire it and use a $40 import after seeing these photos.
Bruce
My dad has an old Sears compressor used for painting though he only used it to pressurize the chemical tanks on a Sickles E-4 film processor. I used it for air nailers back in the day. Very quiet compressor, maybe a 1/2 HP motor, then I started hearing a "hiss" after it hit pressure. Tank had rotted through at the bottom. You guessed it, compressor had never been drained in 20+ years. I tried MIG'ing the thin spots to plug them, but kept burning through. I patched the holes with JB weld and welded a piece of 16-gauge stock well past the thin spots, has held up to very limited (tire pumping) use sense. But I think we'll retire it and use a $40 import after seeing these photos.
Bruce