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From: Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>
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Subject: Re: I Quit
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:58:04 -0700
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On 7/11/2024 3:40 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:v6n6c2$2469n$1@dont-email.me...
> 
> I got the new 7.5HP motor installed on the IR compressor today.  The
> pulley hub for the larger motor shaft and the motor both arrived
> yesterday.  Wow!  Yeah I think it should have always had a 7.5HP motor
> on it.  After installation I vented the tank until the motor kicked on,
> and it filled fast.  Faster than the original motor with the same
> pulley.  The compressor must have been dragging down the 5HP motors a
> little bit all along.  I'm still bring the compressor from my dad's shop
> and setting the two of them up together so I can quickly swap
> compressors, but this is so much better I no longer feel the urge to
> hurry.
> Bob La Londe
> 
> ----------------------------------
> Congrats, another problem successfully solved.
> 
> My 80 gallon compressor is in a corner of my crowded shop and needs to 
> be muscled out to work on it. A wider wooden base that lets it slide 
> rather than tip helps a lot. I don't have a pallet jack or room to use 
> one, but if I did a small pallet might be a good base for it.
> 

The sad part is if they had used a 7.5HP motor to begin with and priced 
it accordingly it would have been an actual good deal, instead of a fake 
good deal.

-- 
Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff


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