Is it junk? No, it's certainly workable,
Tbone it’s no way workable, not even with $2000 dollars worth of spares and 20 hours of free time.
Take a good hard look,
1. It’s an Ex Navy surplus junker, with the original tubular frame and petrol (gas) engine removed
2. The base plate is not an original Rix neither is the Balder motor despite the OP
3. The 2nd stage relief valve is missing and replaced with a plumbers bung, probably because the 3 stage valve was leaking back and blanking the valve with a two dollar bung is the cheapest fix.
4. The 2nd stage heads were discontinued 30 years ago hence the original comment
No longer available spares you have to replace the whole head assembly
5 Ditto for the 3rd stage
6. The 1st stage head you can see the grinding marks where the replacement pulley was pushed so far onto the crankshaft it tore out a chunk of the first stage head. Even managed to groove the outside radius the pulley
7. Which is interesting and shows possible play in the main bearings causing the crankshaft play, Replacement bearings every 15 years so now needs a full and a full strip down
8. Look close the cooling coils are copper, not been done by Rix since the 80’s Copper will be work hardened by now so replace them while you are at it. 15 year expected life
All that from one photograph……..
And theres more………….
15 year is the change out life on the separators and that Bauer Filter, Any bets thats dated early 90’s
You want me to list all the parts needed to make this pile of junk work and your approaching $5000
Also add for the con rod bearings as I can’t imagine it was ever re greased in 30 years let alone every 30 hours and while on that subject how about replacing the main swash bearing and thrust rider bearings while we are at it.
There is a point with ex navy surplus compressors where they are beyond economical repair
despite what relivence others may think of the value of muscle cars. junk is junk and the truth is the truth.
This is a fair and honest assessment for what you can evaluate by a single photo for the benefit of any possible buyer on our compressor forum section.
Now my comment on this part
When New this setup was well over 10k i think i paid 7500 or 8500 for just the compressor because i insisted on having the baldor motor on it, wich is not a cheap motor by any stretch
Now it reads to me he bought it new, yet the pump is a Rix pump built for the Navy and that Baldor is not in the Rix inventory, so either the OP is another Navy or there is another Rix Industies that supplies crappy baseplates that we dont yet know about. And 30 year ago it was $3000 new not $10,000
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