What to do with a busted compressor.

Gear it down to run a spit?

Other than that, no idea. Stick it in a box under the work bench, it may come in handy one day

A couple of suggestions

Gear it down to run a jockey wheel on the trailer. Beats the s*** out of pushing your trailer, or holing you bumper everytime you hitch up a trailer.

Buy one of those cheap "monkey bikes" and power it up a bit. (~400w vs 200w) hehehehehehe

Hi mudrat:

Might not be too hard to fix.
Try this link.

Jack

Have you considered throwing it out and buying a quality one that will last you.

Buy another and then you'll have some spare parts.

The fan motor died on a very old car fridge [Sheen] and I used the motor out of one of those cheap plastic box type compressors to replace it, I tell you what all it needed was a pair of wings and it would have flown! Finnished up buying a computer fan from Dick Smith.
Regards Ken.

Thanks for the ideas, some are definite possibilities.

also thought I might be able to rig up an electric trolling motor for a canoe, the options seem to be vast.

Be assured that now the free compressor is gone I will now be looking at a more robust solution, blue-tounge, big red, et. al. Ideally an engine driven and tank setup would be nice but there is SFA space in the enginebay around the belt in a 3.0L nissan, (mind when the 3.0L gives upi the ghost and the 4.2 or 6.5L comes into play the options are staggering)

Also thought that a whipper snipper motor could be modified to run as a compressor and use the motor to drive it, or if anyone has an old compressor with a burnt out motor perhaps we could try and do some collective recycling?