[Homestead] air compressor troubleshooting

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Mon Jul 9 17:17:11 EDT 2007


On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Warren wrote:

>>
>> We just replaced my cobbled old air compressor with one from  
>> Sears. It's
>> been about two weeks, I guess, with me using it no more than a few  
>> hours
>>   a day to shoot a nail gun or to blow out the surface planer.  
>> Yesterday
>> it started giving me a fit. The motor will try to kick in the  
>> compressor
>> but usually fail before it does.
>>
>> The vacuum pump down in the barn will do the same, always has, but  
>> with
>> that I can give the belt a tug or two and get it going.


Any chance of insufficient voltage at the outlet it's plugged into?  
Heavy starting load taxes long extension cords or undersized or  
overlength services.



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