[Shop-talk] Cooling of air compressor

[John T. Blair]

At 05:39 PM 10/23/2020, Robert Nogueirao wrote:

 >I've got a two stage 80 gallon Campbell Hausfeld compressor which 
is mounted in
 >a small shead atached to the back of the garage.....

 >Anyway when the compressor started up with the new nest inside the squirrel
 >cage blower the fan was blown to bits but nothing else was damaged. THE
 >PROBLEM:   Campbell Hausfeld no longer carries parts and a search 
online found
 >no blowers which look like the would work. So the question is is 
the cooling air
 >blowing over the cylinders important enough that I should shut the 
compressor
 >Down until blower can be found or will occasional use be okay.? Bob Nogueira

Bob,

I hope your shed is well ventelated.  I have a Craftsman 30gal horizontal 5hp
compressor that I've had since about 93.  It's on wheels so it can be 
rolled around.
When I first got it, it was sitting out in the middle of my garage 
and the only air
being forced across it was what the blades on the drive wheel 
had.  Then I built a
work bench and put the compressor under that with very little air 
flow around the
compressor.  So I took an old box fan and hung it from the bottom of my work
bench next to the compressor.  So when I turn on the compressor I turn on the
box fan and I think it gets a good bit of are moving by it.  Like 
yours mine isn't
seeing the work up it use to get, from sanding & paint cars, to 
running a blasting
cabinet, and a pressure blaster in the back yard.  But it's still 
going some 25+
years later.  So I think the box fan really helped.

John


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