The front wall of our late 70’s bungalow is partially set in to create a narrow porch. The roof is standard trusses all the way across so there is a beam and posts under the truss ends where the wall is not there to support them. The bottoms of the posts are nailed to the concrete walkway with...
I want to build a manure application bar with an integrated compressor for cleaning out the drag hoses by pushing a foam plug from the field back to the storage pit. What's a simple, compact and inexpensive way to generate 300 cfm at 50 psi powered by a 1000 rpm tractor pto shaft?
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My wife and I make a bit of maple syrup every spring in a traditional wood fired evaporator. I am intrigued by the vapour compression distillation process and am trying to figure out how I could build a small setup. The biggest stumbling block is what to use for a compressor. The only idea I...
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My boss got a good deal on some hydraulic parts so I am building a power unit to use on whatever application he dreams up. It consists of a 40 hp Deutz engine with a gearbox on the back that has two outputs. One output drives a gear pump which is simple enough. The other output is...
I am trying to figure out a way to make a constant speed vacuum pump variable speed. The pump in question is used on a dairy farm and is sized for maximum vacuum requirements. Because maximum capacity is rarely required, the pump is often sucking air through the regulator, wasting a lot of...
