Cool idea and realization. Works as well as air vent silencers. I made one for kitchen oven vent from pvc tubes + many drills + polyethylene film + stone wool insulation

Now what are the odds that the air filter had the same thread pitch as the connecting piece on the bucket?

Yeah it sounds like the Pistons going to go through the head.

Thank you this fix worked for me. I'll replace the relay but it's fixed for now!

If you want a quiet air compressor buy a quiet air compressor, like I did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnPdpKWZqtGpgJo I mean, spending all that time in trying to make an air compressor quiet is pointless waste of time and money.

I just adapted a larger silencer/filter, from an Ingersoll Rand air compressor. It's a 1 1/4" filter thread, adapted to my 1" Quincy QT-5 intake. They really help. Add a sub base with a sturdy but flexible rubber mat to the tank legs.

Where did you learn to do electronics like this?

cheap and effective👍, if one can get the compressor out of the building, had mine in a little dog house piped in, you could bearly hear it.

Instead of using hardware cloth for the central core, you could use a threaded pipe the same length as your bucket is tall, just drill holes the full length to open it up to the foam. Thread it into the flange on the inside bottom of the bucket and thread the top flange on screwing the lid down at the same time, making it all essentially one piece up the middle, so no plywood is required.

Just make sure the foam does not shed small particles as it degrades. That will ruin the pump since the air cleaner is not filtering the potential foam particles.

I cant stand the smell of the polishing compound so I use different grits of scotch brite after sanding

Great Demo

Great idea! I'll do that this weekend. About the sound recording thing, I seem to remember way back when that tape recorders and early video recorders had an "ALC" button that could turn the Automatic Level Control on and off. Maybe high end video equipment still has that, but most people are just using their phones today. You can really notice it in car reviews where the reviewer comments on how quiet the car is but you can still hear every little whoosh of the air and tires as if it were loud. I recorded a little video of a babbling brook and you can hear me breathing, being intentionally quiet, five feet behind the tripod.

Thats pretty cool. Wouldn't be easier to just run the air intake pipe outside?

impressive!

In place of foam, fill the bucket with rice. That way it dries the air as well.

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I'm kind of interested in the idea of sucking the air though the foam. Firstly try making the inside cage a little larger for greater surface area. Then center and attach to the bucket lid a smaller cage with soft materials to baffle and absorbed pressure waves. While air makes a turn and goes through the foam walls to holes along the bucket's sidewalls. The theory is sound travels through the air faster than the speed air speed getting sucked in. And the noise travels more strait into the absorbing mass in the center while air flow entering from the many different ports along the sidewalls might cause phase delays between the different peaks where sound exits through ports while the air gets filtered by an outer foam layer inside the bucket.

the best kind of video: get in--DO IT--get out. thank you thank you...

Use a glasspack muffler (for exhaust) and weld the bushings to it. That foam is going to degrade and the valves, cylinders and eventually the bottom end are gonna eat it..... Granted it is quieter but it will completely silence it eventually when the foam breaks down 👍

Good job.

What we do (an industrial compressor mech./millwright) is use high temp suction hose as a vibration isolator, to ABS or aluminum (internally coated) pipe through the exterior wall and mount the air filter outside. Some guys use black iron, but I prefer something that's not going to corrode and potentially jam up the valves. Where neighbors are concerned, we will mount a three-sided box that's open on the back and bottom lined with a sound absorbing foam and mount this over the air filter to dampen the noise. The first set-up alone will completely silence the compressor as the suction noise is moved outdoors. You may have to drain your tank of moisture more often, but our commercial customers will generally use a timer drain (or some other form of auto drain) to take care of the excess condensate.

Video is 5 years old and still saving lifes 😂❤

I silenced my compressor by putting it in my storage room that’s detached from my house and then ran the hose under the ground and 75ft away to my shop. I can’t hear it at all. I can port heads in peace.

A pillow and duct tape works as well.

Seeing this in 11/2024.. Years ago I got tired of hearing the compressor in my shop, it sat right nest to my tire machine and doing tire work was deafening. What I did was to make up a rubber hose extension from the head to the wall, going through the wall into a back store room where I adapted the air intake to a car muffler that was mounted on the wall on rubber mounts. the combination of the rubber hose and muffler made the compressor nearly silent other than mechanical noise from the pump.

Big Clive converted one to 240v worked. He's a specialist in that area.

Do you oil the foamy? I would be worried it will dry out and start sucking in foam dust. Great idea tho and yes so simple 😁 Cheers

Do you know what make and model of the gas valve shown in the video? I have one exaclty like that which is acting up.

Put compressor out side the shop. No noise in shop.

I have a 5 hp compressor on a large tank (older Ingersol-Rand compressor). A few years prior I purchased a closeout car muffler with a 2-1/4: inlet and outlet thinking I would be ready for future exhaust repairs but never used it. After I purchased the compressor and built a special shed for it, running it was a very noisy affair. I had the idea to get a couple sections of 2" PVC pipe with necessary elbows and fittings and a Fernco rubber coupler. Luck came my way when a guy I knew that did work on cars "improving" them of upgrading replacement parts had a modern car panel filter and housing sitting next to his trash cans so I grabbed it. This is where the Fernco coupler came into play adapting the PVC to the automotive filter. The filter inside was close to brand new, nothing came out when I cleaned it with compressed air and there was no dirt discoloration and I mounted it on the PVC pipe which protruded from a hole in my compressor shed. It is as quiet as your and also did not cost me much. I had paid ten dollars for the muffler, the pipe came from Home Depot and I had silicone. The amount of air that the compressor moves vs a car at 60 mph, my compressor is not taxing the mufflers air flow and there is nothing that can be injested into the system. I hung the muffler on the wall above the compressor with pipe straps (the metal band roll with holes spaced evenly) and a couple screws. No complaints from me or my neighbors even when I run it with the shed doors open.

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You can make more current... by increasing the voltage. (or by reducing resistance by adding more electrolyte.)

That's basically a glass pack muffler if you were to use fiber material

That was an awesome fix

The best is to put an intake pipe outside. Not only super quiet but reduces water in the air. Keep the pipe large to reduce resistriction in the intake and cause oil to be pulled passed the rings.

The bucket will melt 😮

This is a great idea. Thank you.

I love the sound of my Speedaire 25CFH 80 gal. Compressor , It's outside and doesn't bother me at all .

i just use a 30 gal compressor, but i'm thinkin hell yeah

Nice! Thanks for putting this up!

Hahahaha, a glass-pack for your compressor. Good job

Man, all them nuts, bolts, washers, wire, and mystery foam in the intake just might quiet your cmpressor for good.

Pigeon feed? Who feeds pigeons?

Nice to see the finger chopper 2.0 still being used, 2hp and removed fingers from stupid people. I thought they had all been OSHA'd out of existence.

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Very nice repair of that old vacuum motor! By the way, I can't believe I just now noticed your channel. Subscribed! Thank you for the comments on my videos in the past. I really appreciate it. Will be viewing more of yours as time allows.

Never got around Thanking you for the fix.. Thank you.. better late than nEVA

i would like to quiet down my oilless 27 gal coleman , after 20 years its so loud i dont even use it anymore

Thanks for this great video! I have an older gas valve for a wall furnace, without any external electrical connections - just the thermocouple and the gas pilot tube. I have replace both, and the pilot lights when I hold the knob down, but, even after almost 2 minutes of holding, when I let it go, the pilot goes out. I am pretty sure it's the solenoid that is attached to the thermocouple wire. Is it possible to fix this problem by replacing the solenoid? If so, would you do a video about this? And let me know where I might be able to get the replacement solenoid for this problem? Thank you in advance!