Quincy Compressor Help

Awl--

A local factory building is being demolished, and I got a shot at 4 Quincy compressor heads/motors--no tanks.

The heads are plumbed straight to some kind of gas port on huge boilers. If it was oil, I'd know it was an atomization compressor, but in gas, I dunno.

The numbers are as follows: Model 216-103, Size 2.5x3, S/N: 6027804.

The size sorta looks like the piston diam/travel. It's not a huge head at all, weighs mebbe 50-75 lbs. Two pistons, identical size and adjacent to each other (no vee or anything), typical oil resevoir w/ dip stick, air filter, etc. Looks like a smallish single phase motor (1 hp, mebbe) is driving these, but the compressor heads have a hefty 1 1/4" shaft w/ a gonzo flywheel/pulley on it, w/ 2 belts.

Any idears if these heads would have sufficient cfm for a compressor tank, or is this type of head for a totally different application? Can't glean much info from presure gauges, etc. I will sort of have to bust my ass to get these out, so I would like to know in advance what the story is.

Too late now to call Quincy, will call tomorrow. Just might not be able to sleep tonite!

-- Mr. P.V.'d formerly Droll Troll

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Proctologically Violated©®
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Just say yes and get them. If they turn out to be wrong for your application, test them a little and sell then and buy what you need from the proceeds.

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Ignoramus8099

They will deliver 4.7 to 10.7 CFM at 100 PSI. See :

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Jon

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Jon Elson

As someone else recommended, get them and then you can upgrade. My Gardner Denver 2x2.5 gives me 2 CFM @ 90 PSI with a 1/2 HP motor turning at ~600 RPM. Nothing to stop you from running these in parallel with progressively lower start pressures. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Gerald Miller

There's also what seems to be a fairly pristine 25 hp GE motor. Howz DAT for an idler?? Only problem is, I'd proly wind up trading my gonads for it, from a lifting POV--this thing is up about 5 stories, on rickety stairs. goodgawd....

Thanks, all, for the info. Looks like the wife is going to be pissed at me again!! The cfm easily equals what I have now, on my over-hyped HD Husky (a C-H, I bleeve). But, so far, the Husky has been fine, and is super-quiet (cast iron) compared even to pricier stuff

The Husky has the same head as a lot of SpeedAires, btw, which is why I bought it--saw a fellow's smallish single stage horz'l Speedy, which was actually quieter than his much larger two-stage Speedy, and then recognized the same head on the HD compressor! Then got it as a demo (which not all HDs will do).

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Proctologically Violated©®

I would not take the motor if it was unsafe to take it down -- I am not sure what the risk is, but when things go out of control with heavy stuff, the damage can be tremendous.

A 25 HP motor will likely weigh 300 lbs.

Mine will be soon pissed at me again as well.

You can always simply sell the Quincy heads. Especially if you test them!

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Ignoramus1440

Yeah, hauling that 25 hp w/o rigging is out of the question. My 10 hp Baldor hadda be over 200#, and this is easily twice the physical size.

Fortunately, l'Wife is starting to get a kick out of big-assed motors. I fired up the 5 hp Dayton blower/hurricane generator, blew the leaves out of the driveway to the middle of the street--from *inside* the shop!!! I think I got a convert.... :)

Yeah, I'll pick up those Q's t>> There's also what seems to be a fairly pristine 25 hp GE motor. Howz DAT

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Proctologically Violated©®

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Mike Berger

Um, weren't you the guy with the 200 A service? If you fire up a 25 Hp motor, the lights in your entire neighborhood are going to go out! At least, everybody on your transformer.

Jon

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Jon Elson

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