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Compressor buying / sizing / function
- Are compressors safe?
- How air compressors work.
- Compressor size.
- How to buy an air compressor?
- The best compressor for a small shop?
- Can air compressors be combined?
- The small air compressor for air tools?
- The new air compressor.
- Two compressors – one tank?
- What size of compressor pump do I need?
Compressor identification
Compressor fittings
Compressor plumbing / lines / fittings
- What kind of air hose?
- A larger air line?
- Connecting two air compressors.
- New line from compressor pump to tank.
Compressor pumps
Compressor repair / additional components
- Compressor parts.
- Compressor air filters.
- I broke the compressor intake filter!
- Compressor intake filter.
- Air gauges.
- Regulators.
- Tank auto drains.
- Make compressor gaskets.
- Is the compressor motor start capacitor working?
- How to check the motor start capacitor.
Valves on compressors
- Tank check valve.
- What is an unloading check valve?
- Pressure relief valves.
- Compressor unloader valves.
- The compressor cold start valve.
About Compressor tanks
Compressor pressure switches
- How a compressor pressure switch works.
- Compressor pressure switch.
- Replacing a compressor pressure switch.
- New pressure switch and still the compressor will not stop?
- Add pressure switch to HPC 240v MOB 15E continuous running compressor?
- Compressor keeps running until the pressure relief valve pops?
Air tool pages
More general compressor information pages found on this site include the following:
I recently inherited a 1972 model air compressor. The tank is labeled Standard Refrigeration Company. It looks like it was reworked at some point along the way but I may be wrong there. The copper line from the pump outlet running through the belt seems to be a give-away to some tinkering at some point. Also, the regulator valve (and maybe the entire regulator–who know) appears to have come from a gas cylinder based on the markings on the gauge which says to order gas below about 27 psi. Also the frame is bolted to a piece of plywood which is attached to the tank. Maybe this is a Frankenstein.
It seems to run OK. It just put-put-puts along and builds pressure. I have no idea if it is doing so at full efficiency. I ran it up to 100 psi and closed the main valve and it lost about 7 psi over 4 hours. Not sure how much of that was temperature related.
It has no pressure switch which I would like to add. I can’t find any port on the top of the piston to which a line to an unloader valve would have been installed. If it has made this far without an unloader valve, do I need to worry about one? If I need one, can I just add a check valve at the tank and install a “T” in the line coming from the pump outlet and run a line to an unloader valve. There are some components at the outlet of the pump which may be a check valve there.
There is a nipple at the base of the pump (noted in some pictures as “What is this?”) which looks like it was made for plastic or rubber tubing. I would be interested to know what this is for.
Any input on this compressor would be appreciated. It has some sentimental value to me and I could use a small compressor in my shop so I’d like to get it a little more functional and put it to use.
Thanks.
I have a Central Pneumatic 21 gal compressor model # 63635.
were can i find a Piston & a Connecting rod?
my connecting rod broke and it bent my piston in the process.
Alan, as I’m sure you have found out, though this compressor appears to be still available new from Harbor Freight, they do not supply the parts in question. That information is available on this page (if you follow this link), and if you click the “view available parts” link on that page, it will show the parts available from HF.
I’ll post this, but I have no confidence that you’ll find an after-market supplier since the compressor is still available new, and HF doesn’t carry these parts.
Suggestions? Go on the free sales sites and browse for a working used version, or, buy a new one, and use the old one for parts for when the new one, too, fails.
Model # 67847 Help looking for crankshaft and connecting rod.
Mike… nope. None, nowhere that I can find. So sorry.
Maybe a kind owner has a used on for sale, and maybe they’ll post here. Otherwise, if the tanks good, you may need to buy a different pump and motor entirely.
Anyone help Mike with 67847 crankshaft and connecting rod for the pump?
Been looking all day,,, Thanks for your help….
You are welcome. Wish we’d been a bit more help. Let us know if you get anywhere with this, if you would. Might help someone else.
will do