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   On 7/11/2024 3:40 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:v6n6c2$2469n$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > I got the new 7.5HP motor installed on the IR compressor today.  The   
   > pulley hub for the larger motor shaft and the motor both arrived   
   > yesterday.  Wow!  Yeah I think it should have always had a 7.5HP motor   
   > on it.  After installation I vented the tank until the motor kicked on,   
   > and it filled fast.  Faster than the original motor with the same   
   > pulley.  The compressor must have been dragging down the 5HP motors a   
   > little bit all along.  I'm still bring the compressor from my dad's shop   
   > and setting the two of them up together so I can quickly swap   
   > compressors, but this is so much better I no longer feel the urge to   
   > hurry.   
   > Bob La Londe   
   >   
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   > Congrats, another problem successfully solved.   
   >   
   > My 80 gallon compressor is in a corner of my crowded shop and needs to   
   > be muscled out to work on it. A wider wooden base that lets it slide   
   > rather than tip helps a lot. I don't have a pallet jack or room to use   
   > one, but if I did a small pallet might be a good base for it.   
   >   
      
   The sad part is if they had used a 7.5HP motor to begin with and priced   
   it accordingly it would have been an actual good deal, instead of a fake   
   good deal.   
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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