Removing air filter on a compressor

My old Kellogg-American had a similiar filter housing, I could remove it with a strap wrench. But this may not apply to yours.

I do not have such a wrench, buying one seems to be excessive for just one stupid task.

I think that I have enough clearance to weld a steel bar to the pipe and use that for leverage.

i

Looks like an oil filter wrench might work as well. But a strap wrench is a good investment also. You will use one more than you realize.

Ah, but once you have one, you'll find uses for it . For instance - I use mine to remove my lathe chucks. I reject the idea of putting the key in its socket and pulling. Keys & sockets shouldn't be used for that.

Bob

One thing to try is to use a auto timing belt wrapped around the can and use a mole wrench, vise grip in the US, to clamp the belt loop close to the can and lever using the wrench. Works well for most items I've tried it on unless really seized. A good reason to save old timing belts as the are tough and can be used to drag things about also.

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Or, on the oil filter wrench theme, as with an oil filter, if you don't have a wrench and aren't reusing the filter, just hammer a screwdriver through the filter and be done with it.

make one. An old automotive timing belt works great. Pull it tight around the item to be turned, clamp it with ends of teeth of vise-grip and twist in direction of the rounded top jaw. I save old belts for all kinds of jobs. Screwing it to a 2x4 also works well, just round off the top where it presses the object, but it's not adjustable.

I have successfully used a nylon tie-down strap and a piece of pipe.

A strap wrench is less likely to mar the workpiece, but nothing grabs like the chain on the Vise-Grip 20R. I've not seen a Chinese clone of this at HF but there may be one.

Enco has it for $25.73. 891-1320.

How about cutting one (wrench head) out of a bit of 1/4" plate and welding a handle to it?

It would take what....10 minutes?

Gunner

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One of the most useful tools around. My biggest ues for this tool is on a gear/pulley puller. Ever had the puller slide off under high force? Put this chain grip around the three legs and it can't pop off.

Karl

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Or use the expensive posi-lock pullers. I wonder when their patent expires...

A quick cheap way is to saw a recess approximately the diameter of the housing near one end of a 2X4, loop the center of a piece of rope or tiedown webbing over it and wind the rope around the air cleaner many times. The fitted recess helps keep the wood from denting the housing.

Jim Wilkins

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:42:05 -0800, the infamous Gunner Asch scrawled the following:

I had to grind some old wrenches for a flatter profile to get into tight spaces when I was wrenching. I also bent some and welded on extensions to make my own crowfoot wrenches. This might be what Ig needs here.

Doesn't that filter come out from a bolt on top? I could swear that I see a bolt head (or wingnut wing) on the end of that intake filter.

The housing looks like it takes a flat profile insert, very much like auto filters. Having the large cannister below it likely takes out some of the harmonics of the intake valve noise, too. I like it! The air intake produces half the overall noise from a compressor.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:40:39 -0500, the infamous "Karl Townsend" scrawled the following:

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Ah, good tip, Karl. That would be especially good when you can't get an impact on the puller head; where there are a lot of side forces at work.

I have two tips for pullers. First, I used to use pieces of cut innertube to hold the 3 or 4 jaw pullers in place. (Your chain-style pipe wrench would make things even more secure.)

Second, I found that using an impact wrench provided a much better force than a slow-moving wrench or ratchet movement. My frustration level was way lower when I utilized those two helpers.

I've cut them with my plasma CNC and then hand file to match. The large 3" made from 3/8" plate was a bit overkill, but nice to do.

I put in circles (holes) at the inside corners - so the bent tips and dirt would clear.

Mart> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:42:05 -0800, the infamous Gunner Asch

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I have indeed done this, in conjunction with a fairly decent slammerbammer of a 1/2" pneumatic impact wrench. Gotta love tools that don't take no for an answer.