Back at work, kids and wife at their respective places as well. Good to be back in action.
I had very small chunks of time this weekend, but was able to do a couple of interruptible labor-related things as opposed to sit-down-and-think.
One was to start prepping the JLR CAN bus firewall build I earlier bought the boards and parts for:
The other was an unexpected Facebook Marketplace scramble. A 60 gallon single-piston/single-stage compressor went up for sale at $200 in a neighboring area. Would I like double-stage with three pistons? Sure, but this is vastly better than nothing in the garage and will finally allow me to put my blast cabinet and tools back to work. Glad this came out of family money as we have an irrigation system which needs yearly blowout.
However...what
wasn't mentioned:
Apparently they had snapped the threaded quick-connect at some point...which pretty much means the unit is temporarily unusable and that it's been open to the elements for some unknown time, possibly the three years since it's last been used. That might be good or bad with the low humidity here and/or moisture that was in there. The tank's pretty old and has probably seen a lot of use.
The quick-connect remains are cemented in there and the metal is weirdly soft, so it's no wonder it snapped so easily. A friend suggested hacksawing down to the threads and imploding it, which is a decent idea, but it'll dump metal residue and chunks into the tank. Would at least be better with a vacuum hose held nearby and the drain unscrewed for airflow.
Alternatively, I can just buy a new hex cap, but I only have one wrench that comes close to that diameter and the cap doesn't budge, presumably torqued pretty tightly. I'm broke and am more likely to hacksaw with the hope that air filters will catch anything particulate.
