Mostly translation check, though I doubt there’s anything vital there
I’ve seen a few vids and I downloaded a manual (a word is worth a thousand video frames, sometimes more). Not for this model, but they seem a fairly standard design.
nobody really restores those compressor as they can be bought new for 3000nt. If the motor is busted it would cost more to get it running than to get a new one. Things like this ends up in a junkyard for a reason.
Good luck with that… motor is likely junk universal motor or something. Probably only thing wrong with it is missing brush. Perhaps the winding needs to be redone too, given that it probably sat in the rain for years.
By the way I am looking for some magnesium… do those things end up in the junkyard? What do they make out of magnesium?
Well, SAE is Society of Automotive Engineers. Sounds like motor oil to me. I have some SAE40 SJ/CD, or Ive got some hydraulic oil somewhere, though I’ll have to look that up’.
Not an immediate issue since its got oil, and it may never run anyway.
I took the head off and cleaned it up a bit. Reed valves look OK.
The motor rotated briefly but its sticky and noisy, I don’t have capacitance testing on my meter, a mistake, but the 50 microfarad start cap shows a rising resistance across the terminals, as expected, so Id guess brushes, bearings, or a sticky piston.
Yes but oils have different properties and using the wrong oil could lead to critical parts not getting lubricated. I think compressor oil is the right kind of oil, and they don’t have the SAE 30 or something, possibly because cars here don’t use them?
I was hoping it was induction motor honestly, those are easy to fix/replace.
You probably can get SAE30 somewhere, I’ve just never seen it.
I vaguely remember some recomendation not to use detergent oils (which nearly all motor oil except very old API grades like SA andf SB will be) because it keeps wear debris in suspension rather than letting it settle out in the sump. Might be something to do with that.
If you ask for non detergent oil they will point you to compressor oil because nobody uses non detergent oil in a car. But they have compressor oil as well as machine way oil (r32 and r60) at your local gas station.
Really old alloy wheels but I think these might be too exotic for what you’d find in a Taiwan scrapyard. Mostly sports cars from the 70s I think but could very easily be mistaken. It’s happened before
Usually zinc, but I think I have heard of aluminium and magnesium alloys being used also. IIRCmagnesium is the most active and can cause paint loss on steel hulls.
When I worked in a shipyard I remember “planking” some old ship anodes we’d taken off the hull of a P and O ferry, intending to collect them later.
Can’t remember collecting them but I doubt they’ll still be there and I’m pretty sure those were zinc
Casing made of magnesium IIRC. Contents thermite. Dunno about the British but the Americans mostly used oil-based incendiaries like napalm so probably no magnesium.
I found one of those stirrup pumps in a river once. Had probably been there for 50 years. Still worked.
