DIY air compressor to paint your planes

[Paul Taylor]

You got to give this guy a E for effort.



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[Steve Helmick]

Uh.....just "Wow!"    Steve

[Jim Svitko]

I suppose whatever it takes to get the job done.

I spent a year in Thailand while in the Air Force.  This was the mid-70s.  Back then, gasoline cost something like 80 cents a gallon there.  That was probably more than what most of them made in a day.

I saw all sorts of home made devices and work-arounds because people had no money.  Buying something new was almost out of the question or even getting something fixed.  The things I saw on motor vehicles would have you shaking your head.  Instead of an air filter, I once saw what looked like panty hose tied to the carburetor.  I don't know if he ever ran it because I would have expected it to melt.  Instead of a shift lever on a motorcycle, I saw a pair of vise grips clamped to the shaft.  It scared me to think what they did for a brake job yet I rode around quite a bit in the small pickups that were used as taxis.

  

[david beazley]

I wonder how you say "Git 'er done!" in his native tongue!

[Larry Renger]

No breathing spray mask? Where is OSHA when you need them? 

[Wayne Collier]

That's ingenious. Two thumbs up!

Nothing that elaborate, but when I was a kid dad pulled the compressor out of an old refrigerator to use as a vacuum pump.  A hose on the output line powered a badger air brush and kept bicycle tires full of air.

[Astropuppy]

thats crazy.

[Phil Krankowski]

That is awesome!  It appears to be a fan motor, connected to the wheel end of a hand-crank grinder.  The grinder handle is driving a bicycle pump to a wheel which is an air tank.  The sprayer is piped in by puncturing the rubber of the wheel.  Ingenious! 

I would not want it, but I am glad to see someone came up with it.

Phil