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Title: Cool Old Ingersoll Engine Drive Compressor
Post by: gtermini on September 24, 2019, 02:17:41 PM

https://portland.craigslist.org/clk/tls/d/vancouver-ingersoll-rand-rail-road/6985325610.html

Half radial engine, half compressor.

Title: Re: Cool Old Ingersoll Engine Drive Compressor
Post by: torqueman2002 on September 24, 2019, 03:19:08 PM

That is cool.

I've heard the Ford industrial V4 was used with two cylinders as a compressor, but have never seen one, or the one you discovered.

Title: Re: Cool Old Ingersoll Engine Drive Compressor
Post by: jabberwoki on September 24, 2019, 07:16:34 PM

That would be cool if it worked.

Title: Re: Cool Old Ingersoll Engine Drive Compressor
Post by: J.A.F.E. on September 24, 2019, 08:51:50 PM

There is a relatively inexpensive kit available for air cooled VWs to convert them to a two cylinder engine running a 2 cylinder compressor. Model T engines were converted as well so the idea has been around a long time.

http://www.dunnrightinc.com/ (http://www.dunnrightinc.com/)

(http://www.dunnrightinc.com/images/dr3deluxe.gif)