Repaired my IR T30 air compressor which has been broken for a month.
We picked up the new Boldar L1430T motor last weekend, and I spent the week tripping over it - I literally left it in the middle of the floor as a constant reminder that I needed to install it. I kept ignoring it (because I dread anything to do with household wiring) until today when my oldest daughter asked when I was going to inflate the splash pool (Natasha put her up to it). So guess what I did for about the next six hours?
I am really grateful that I spend a lot of time in the gym, because that made it pretty effortless getting the 80lb motors down and up 5+ feet off the floor.
What I am not grateful for is the motor starter I decided to add. This ate up most of the job trying to figure out how to get the damn coils to fire - Square D does not include instructions (probably a liability issue). Much smashing of my head was done over finding the correct order of wires. Thankfully I was saved by a redneck on YouTube who literally went from post to post (paint by number simplicity). Then I added a simple toggle switch, and now have ON/OFF capability - no more pulling the plug out of the wall for this guy! (at least until I need to weld something that is).
Compressed air, oh how I missed you. Even if it cost me a day of not wrenching on a car and playing with my kids.
Sure am going to enjoy sitting in the pool on the deck.
