A silly little compressor

[dgjessing]

The original idea was to make a little tiny wind powered air compressor mounted on top of the garage which would fill a big air tank at a leisurely pace to run little compressed air engines... That seemed a bit ambitious for a first attempt, so I did this instead:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjtLGcrBHPg[/ame]

 

[SAM in LA]

Dave,

Pretty cool.

Regards,

SAM

 

[rake60]

I wouldn't call that silly.
Nice work! Thm:

Rick

 

[bentprop]

A wobbler running a wobbler.Who'da thunk it? :big:
Really neat.

 

[arnoldb]

;D To paraphrase the younger generations... COOL :bow:

Regards, Arnold

 

[hobby]

Nice idea, works real well.

I never built a wobbler before, but I like the idea of a wobbler being used as an compressor,
I've been wanting to make a small compressor of sorts, but didn't know how to make the one way valves,
but your showing that a wobbler, will actually allow a way for the air into the tank to not return back out, so the air is in a sense going through a one way valve.

I need to look into this more, thanks for sharing your video.

Good workmanship as well on both the compressor and the engine.

 

[dgjessing]

Thanks, everybody! There are identical ball valves in both the piston and the cylinder head. The intake is through a hole in the side of the connecting rod. The ball valves depend on gravity to close, which was probably a mistake (should have put in springs).