compressor talk, About This Blog, shop non-update...

  For anyone just recently reading this, this is an old-fashioned text-oriented blog, originally put up to document my amateur science work, and which now concerns the conversion of my workshop / lab space, originally assembled for purposes of amateur science, into a practical workshop focused on making money as a business.  I'm a wordy old cuss, so slow readers beware.

more easily enumerated than done...

 This morning I took a hard look at what remains to be done to put both the air compressor, and more importantly, the blast cabinet it supplies, into operation, and jotted down these things on the shop white-board:

 It's an intimidating list in terms of cost of materials as well as labor.  There simply is no money for any of it right now.

 The circuit has been run and connected to the breaker panel, so the outlet at the compressor's location is now live.  A four to five foot piece of #10 SO cable "whip" is needed to connect the compressor to the wall box.

 Air drying components are required to make the air digestible by the blast cabinet.

parking area utility air hose reel

 In order to provide for an automatic drain, and possibly to vent said drain outside, the whole compressor needs to be elevated on a stand about 15" above the floor.  I only have a bit less than half of the steel required to make that stand, which obviously needs to be rather sturdy.

 Eventually, an acoustic cabinet will be made, when money permits, to completely enclose the compressor.  Said cabinet will be equipped with active ventilation and an overtemperature alarm, and eventually, a shut-down relay will be installed.  In theory.

 Once the compressor is in operation, there is a hose reel in the garage and a utility filling station, which also controls and displays the pressure going to said filling station and hose reel, waiting to be connected:

 The drop from the compressor area to the blast cabinet is already installed.

 

 At this point, until a source of income appears, none of these needful things can happen.  We're rather up against it financially right now, and I'm weighing various options so we can pay the basic bills.