Here is another shop tool that I didn't realize how nice it could be until I had one to use. Its an old discarded Air Compressor tank that I converted to a portable air tank. I have about $65 or $70 in the black one and $20 less in the red one. I picked up the red one off the street many years ago and I bought the black one in the scrap yard for $20. This is a simple project that is extremely handy. The red tank is 20 gallon and the black tank is 22 gallon. The 20 Gallon with 100 psi in it will take of lug nuts with a 1/2'' drive impact and only drop 5 psi per lug nut. This amazed me the first time I tried it. These were just run of the mill compressors at one time. I stripped all the compressor related junk off of them and started with a close nipple into a 4 way block. This was the hardest piece to find but Evil Bay had them. The Apollo ball valves are more Evil Bay fodder. 8 used for $35.00. $8 pressure gauges off Evil Bay. A couple of 90 degree fittings and some close nipples from Lowes and a 25' Goodyear hose from northern tool and you have an air tank.
I cant take credit for the idea. I went to a friends house many years ago and he had a 10 gallon compressor tank setup with the Freon bottle to air tank conversion kit. I thought now that would be just right with a 20 gallon tank. So I picked one up off the side of the road and bought the air tank conversion kit for it. It worked ok.... It was slow to fill with the valve stem type connection and you could not keep it from leaking. Well I found the Black tank in the scrap yard and decided it was time to do this right. So that is where the current plumbing configuration came from. You snap your air hose on the connector, turn the ball valve and it will fill out of my big compressor in about 30 seconds to 125 psi. Close the ball valve and disconnect the hose. Now you have air that will be there 6 months later. This configuration does not leak and I have built 3 tanks so far.
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There ya go. Scrounge up a tank and some pieces and make one for your shop. When you have a flat tire in the yard it is just the ticket. Now I have about 600 feet of air hose so I could air up the neighbors tires if I wanted but this is so much easier than dragging out a hose and then having to put up the hose after you have used it for 5 minutes.
[MENTION=47323]OND[/MENTION] You need one of these...
Woo Hoo... post number 1000.....
Doug