I once bought a kit of materials (foil-faced foam, sound-deadening
rubber) at a marine store. It was to quiet the compartment around a
marine diesel. It was one of the cheapest modifications I ever made on
my boat, if that says something about the relative price of the kit...
- Bill Rabel
Wet Spot Garage
Anacortes, WA
> For various reasons I'm moving the shop. Moving sucks. But one thing
> I can do is sort of enclose the air compressor in an alcove of its own,
> and hopefully cut down on the noise. If I could move it outside to a
> little shed of its own that would be sweet, but such is not the case.
>
> Right now there is just a sheet of plywood between the compressor and
> one of the work benches. What would be a good material to put on the
> compressor side of the plywood to help cut down on noise - standard
> fiberglass mat insulation, or rigid foam board or open cell foam sheets
> or ???
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