Truly amazing Ebay find for Gunner

You're too late see the "Re: Check out this Ebay auction posted" thread above

Lane

A true classic. Thanks Jim.

--RC

I'm looking for an old ECO (or similar type) air filling station for use in my barn.

It doesn't have to be pretty, or even "restorable" in any antique sense -- just in good enough shape to either work out of the box, or be reasonably repairable.

I've priced the "antique sales" on Ebay and elsewhere, and these things are selling for LOTs of moola; only to be used as playroom decorations. Damn, sad waste!

I'd like to put one back into service for my various farm vehicles and POVs.

Anyone got one?

LLoyd

Is that the old one where you set the output pressure in the windows with a hand crank, and then it would ding until the flow stopped?

You could just get yourself a good accurate pressure regulator with a big 4-1;/2" or 6" 2% pressure gauge to set it, and then just use a regular tire chuck till the hissing stops.

That's how I fill small wheelchair, bicycle and hand-truck tires all the time around the house - if you aren't super careful with a hand tire inflator/gauge on a 135-PSI+ line, you can blow out tiny tires easily.

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Someone in Australia was selling a clip with five empty 303 brass, with no primers. To stay clear of eBay's regulations, he jumped through every hoop which they had to certify that this was *not* ammunition (no powder, no bullets, no primers), and ended the listing with the e-mail exchanges he had with eBay to try to comply with their (rather extreme, and poorly documented) regulations.

End result -- his auction *still* gets cancelled. :-(

But last night, it was already up over $50.00 -- people bidding in support of his position, I think, since it is *way* beyond what those are actually worth.

Enjoy, DoN.

This is why I turn my compressor off when the tank pressure is only a little above the desired tire pressure. If I need a little more, I trip the unloader and restart the compressor. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

That account seems to be having issues at the moment; hmmmm.

In any case, I contacted the original seller of the brass, and he said that he was informed by eBay that his auction was removed because the item, "included information not relative to the item." Sounds like an eBay catchall for yanking auctions they don't like.

He relisted the auction, but that one got pulled fairly quickly as well; it looked like this while it was up:

The lesson here is to make sure you don't step on any toes over at the Almighty eBay if you want to sell anything.

Jon

Yeah.... but, see, that was the advantage of the ECO. It didn't _slowly_ approach the desired pressure, it pulsed the air in at fairly high pressure until just the last two or three "dings".

Have you ever tried filling a 38 x 22 tractor tire with the method you discuss above? With your pressure set, say, five pounds over what your target is, it could take fifteen or twenty minutes to get the last five PSI in.

LLoyd

Crap, I have a whole box of 303 brass somewhere in the basement. HOW much is it worth!? Is the stripper clip what's really the valuable piece?

-- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

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I think that the bids were bids in sympathy with his problems, not bids based on the perceived value of what was being offered.

Enjoy, DoN.

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) wrote back on 22 Feb 2005 15:49:28 -0500 in rec.crafts.metalworking :

Stripper clips are going for a buck a pop, last I saw them.

Could be that too.

OTOH, I've enough empty brass ...