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Sullair 85 Compressor

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Looking at buying a little Sullair 85 compressor. This is the one with the VW Beetle engine in it. The seller can't tell me much about it since he's never actually used himself. Says it doesn't run. I'm not as worried about the engine as I am about the rotary compressor. I hear these things need the head unit rebuilt after so many hours of use. As old as this compressor is I figure the rotary compressor will probably need gone through as well as the engine. What am I looking at as far as parts availability and cost in dealing with this thing. Just wanted to use it as a sandblaster.
 
The model 85 means 85 cfm and it will work for sandblasting if you use a 3/16 nozzle a bigger nozzle will take more CFM than your compressor can furnish.
 
I've worked on rotary screw compressors for years. Most of them were running 8 or more hours a day tied to a rock drill. These were used only for flushing the hole. One, in particular, is a 250 CFM Sullair, and it has been running for close to 10 years without issue.

The same customer has several older, high CFM machines, and they ran for a long time running air powered drills. In other words, those compressors both ran the drill, as well as flushed the drill hole. They also ran the air motors, etc on the old Ait-Trac drills they were attached to when moving them around. Once again, those compressors ran for years, at nearly full CFM output, with nothing more than routine maintenance.

In other words, as long as the compressor isn't locked up, or you don't see any other major issues, it ought to last you a long time under no more use than the average person would put on it -vs- running it in a production environment.

If the price is right, and you think you can get the engine running, it sounds to me like it would be a decent machine for occasional use.
 
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