Bristol marque old compressor

[MoreWellie]

There's something strangely satisfying about an old slow revving compressor

Fair point, mine wouldn't build pressure so I took the pump apart and fixed it with some sticky back plastic and a fairy liquid bottle

or maybe it was a piece of gasket material......

 

[mtt.tr]

I would look for an Ingersol Rand type 30 style of compressor.

 

[Seadog]

Agreed Mat. I restored one last year, a 1969 model.

Ingersoll Rand compressor resurrection

I picked this up on FB Marketplace for a song last year. It had been advertised over s period of months for £40 and then I happened to see that it was down to £20, and local. Too good an opportunity to miss. As you can see, it's 3-phase hence why no-one was interested. The first job was to...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

 

[GRW]

I would look for an Ingersol Rand type 30 style of compressor.

Ok - I'm guessing because it's a good compressor and had good parts availability or something like that, which makes an IR Type 30 superior to the Bristol one?

 

[GraemeVW]

Agreed Mat. I restored one last year, a 1969 model.

Ingersoll Rand compressor resurrection

I picked this up on FB Marketplace for a song last year. It had been advertised over s period of months for £40 and then I happened to see that it was down to £20, and local. Too good an opportunity to miss. As you can see, it's 3-phase hence why no-one was interested. The first job was to...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

That was a good read. This link is why it now has a new reply

 

[roblane65]

I've got a similar IR to seadog albeit the type A single pot pump , nd a good machine it is to , another came up on faceache last week with the twin pot pump foe £45 but I missed it ! would have paid that just for pump.