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so I searched online, and then I searched this forum, but I could not find anything on safety cages or similar, to negate the effects of a compresor exploding.
I have a 50 liter Aldi compressor with a really nice 3hp motor, but 50 liters is a bit too small to keep my plasma cutter running for a long cut.
So I bought a 200 liter tank from an Irish auction site. Now I dont know the history of this tank other than the motor died an the OG owner gave up on it and gave it to the guy I bought it from. So lets guess that it was used for three of four years or thereabouts.
I brought it home and cleaned out the inside, there was some sludge and lots of rusty water. I bought a bigger tap than was on it, for draining it in future.
Then I thought, I'll flip it upside down, so that the water can eat away at a fresh surface inside inside the tank.
I welded onto the platform the motor was on (not the tank itself, hell's no...)
And here we have it
What I'm going to do, is cut some MDF and bolt to to the brackets on the top, so that I gain some extra shelf space.
What Id like to do, is also close in one side of it, maybe with mdf too, so that if one day it goes pop, the material I used might contain the force of the explosion.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but in this case I know I'll feel better for it, so paranoid is fine by me. What I cant seem to find, is any information about what material might absorb the explosion best.
Seems to me that MDF would be a better absorbent that normal timber, in that it wont splinter.
Sheet steel might also be good, probably better. Its also costlier than MDF, but whatever suits best I'll go for.
cheers for reading
so I searched online, and then I searched this forum, but I could not find anything on safety cages or similar, to negate the effects of a compresor exploding.
I have a 50 liter Aldi compressor with a really nice 3hp motor, but 50 liters is a bit too small to keep my plasma cutter running for a long cut.
So I bought a 200 liter tank from an Irish auction site. Now I dont know the history of this tank other than the motor died an the OG owner gave up on it and gave it to the guy I bought it from. So lets guess that it was used for three of four years or thereabouts.
I brought it home and cleaned out the inside, there was some sludge and lots of rusty water. I bought a bigger tap than was on it, for draining it in future.
Then I thought, I'll flip it upside down, so that the water can eat away at a fresh surface inside inside the tank.
I welded onto the platform the motor was on (not the tank itself, hell's no...)
And here we have it
What I'm going to do, is cut some MDF and bolt to to the brackets on the top, so that I gain some extra shelf space.
What Id like to do, is also close in one side of it, maybe with mdf too, so that if one day it goes pop, the material I used might contain the force of the explosion.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but in this case I know I'll feel better for it, so paranoid is fine by me. What I cant seem to find, is any information about what material might absorb the explosion best.
Seems to me that MDF would be a better absorbent that normal timber, in that it wont splinter.
Sheet steel might also be good, probably better. Its also costlier than MDF, but whatever suits best I'll go for.
cheers for reading