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The owner of the shop I work at told me I cold have one of the old air compressors they had in the loft. The plant manager and I pulled one down and tossed it on my trailer on lunch today!

It does have a 5hp 3 phase motor on it so, I am planning on swapping it for a 220v single phase and see what it will do!

I am very excited to get it home tonight!

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Now how are you going to sleep at night with all of that guilt. :D

Better just bring it to me.
 
I think you are going to need a serious bad *** motor to spin that bad boy. Nice score.
 
Maybe easier to set-up a rotary phase convertor . How many HP is the 3ph on it now ?
 
I got an 80 gallon compressor from an abandoned trailer house a friend of mine was renting out. I got it for 50 bucks. She originally thought it was a hot water heater. I had to replace about 60 dollars worth of parts. So $110.00 all in for an 80 gal tank not as good as free but still not bad.
 
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Maybe easier to set-up a rotary phase convertor . How many HP is the 3ph on it now ?
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Changing motors might sound easy, but a 5 HP will not be cheap.

As stated check into a roto phase if there isn't anything wrong with the one there.

Boss must have been in a good mood this morning, great compressor, and older IR
 
It has a 3 phase 5hp motor on it right now. I havr no idea the condition of the motor or the compressor :-/

I had thought about using a phase converter but, I was under the impression that a "compressor duty" phase converter was very very expensive?

My plan is to compare the cost of a good rotary phase converter to the cost of a new 220v single phase motor.

The owner of the shop said that I was more than welcome to order anything I needed through the shop so, I MAY have access to some good prices for the parts?

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Congrats! Air is good. Compressed air awesome!
 
I bought a IR T-30 out of Dodge dealership that was destroyed by tornado and it had 5 hp 3 phase. I bought a new 5 hp single phase for around $400. When I started it up I watched to see when it would shut off. It went past 135 psi, 150 psi,175 psi then I started getting nervous. I moved back and kept watching as pressure kept building. When it started toward 200 psi i was running to the breaker and it turned off at 195 psi. It was still climbing without even straining. I backed pressure off to 150 psi. The shop foreman told me it was running the whole shop at dealership.
 
That looks like a 452 Compressor pump. If you put a 220 motor on it, it will need to be 7HP at the VERY least. More like 10. But if you stick with 3PH, that motor will do fine. Nice score.
 
I believe it is a 242-5D?

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Weak440 said:
The owner of the shop I work at told me I cold have one of the old air compressors they had in the loft. The plant manager and I pulled one down and tossed it on my trailer on lunch today!

It does have a 5hp 3 phase motor on it so, I am planning on swapping it for a 220v single phase and see what it will do!

I am very excited to get it home tonight!

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why don't you look into a thing called a PHASE GENARATOR then no need to change the motor
 
I assumed this would be a thread about someone "borrowing" tools from work like my father did back in the 80s and 90s when he worked for Hysters lol. Slightly disappointing! Nice score though :) And legal at that.
 
"It does have a 5hp 3 phase motor on it so, I am planning on swapping it for a 220v single phase and see what it will do!"

Just put a 5.2 Magnum on it!
 
Weak440 said:
The owner of the shop I work at told me I cold have one of the old air compressors they had in the loft. The plant manager and I pulled one down and tossed it on my trailer on lunch today!

It does have a 5hp 3 phase motor on it so, I am planning on swapping it for a 220v single phase and see what it will do!

I am very excited to get it home tonight!

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Hey think your boss will let me have one of the "other" compressors up there? lol Nice score!
 
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