Subject: Re: How much heat is safe for motor and compressor

From: [email-masked]
Date: 16 Dec 1996 18:31:43 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Leonard Wojcik <[email-masked]>
writes:

>Nobody seems to mention the heat generated when the air is compressed. 
>Depending on what kind of pressures you are generating, this can be
>substantial.  Typically if you are also drawing air from the storage
>tank, it will not heat much, but the piping into the storage tank will
>get very hot (too hot to touch +)
>
>

Very true but the original poster was concerned about the motor getting
too hot. No question about the comprtessor or the line to the tank. *Very*
hot, mine has blackened the copper pipe with heat scale.

Peter