This teardown was a lot of fun. The more we tore it down the worse it got. I was not expecting to see that much carnage inside. Maybe just a spun bearing, not complete anarchy. Eric thank you for having me I had a blast hanging out with you for a few days. I'm sure there will be more in the future. To everyone else. Thank you for watching have a great day.

"They're not allowed to touch my new compressor". Sounds like they never touched the old one either...

I think the electric motor that drove this to destruction deserves an award!

The little end of that rod broke on the bottom side and was so hot it folded back over and "welded" itself back. That's lovely carnage, Thanks my guys.

As someone who’s been in the compressor industry all my life, seeing this kind of neglect always brings me joy. That compressor was knocking for months before it went boom

Eric FINALLY got to say “why did you do that?” Instead of the normal “why did I do that?”

2 stage compressor, Big cylinder pushes air to little one through that heavy radiator cooler. 2 intakes and one exhaust. Each bank connects to output. You probably can buy all the broken parts, but faster and easier to just buy a new pump. Little tube is an unloader to reduce start up resistance.

I used to work at a truck repair company. We had 2 different compressors. The large compressor was in as well fenced area in the parking lot. One day while at work, I was walking across the parking lot and there was suddenly an explosion like a stick of dynamite, and a big cloud of black smoke was rising up from the compressor. The crankcase was blown to pieces. Someone had gotten into the compressor yard and removed the oil drain plug. Evidently, running with no oil, the residual oil got so hot that it started producing flammable vapors which then ignited explosively.

When I was chief engineer in a machine shop, I concluded that there were only two reasons why equipment failed: Either we ignored the warning sounds and did not work on it. Or we worked on it and did not understand what we were doing. Lubrication, actually lack of it, kills rotating equipment.

Marketplace ad: "Ran when parked" 🤣

I believe the lubricity is NO. That doesn't have a "weight" it has a "grit". Thanks for the mid-week entertainment! Enjoy your holiday!

12:43 That is indeed how one makes anti-seize. Way anti-seize works is you must make seize negative paste. You take a low level degraded seize neutral oil, then run it in a moving device. The machine then draws seize out of the paste. Now you have a device that has a positive seize charge, and a negative seize paste.

The reason the carnage is so much worse than what you're used to is that an engine has to supply the energy for its own destruction; at a certain level of destruction it stops. The compressor is powered by an external motor though which can keep beating it to shrapnel long after it's way too ruined to do anything useful.

Kudos to Anthony for sharing this with us. It looks like the filters were serviced, but no one knew how to change the oil.

All it was missing was a water pump

I just watched an old How It’s Made episode where they refurbished commercial refrigeration compressors and they “honed” the cylinder bore with a scouring pad on a die grinder and “decked” the block with a fibre disk on a sander. I’ve seen third world machine shop videos with more sophisticated processes.

You need to send this unit back to the manufacturer for warranty replacement. It's obviously a defective unit.

Oh yeah!! Malice in the compression palace!!

"Disconnecting Rod" ALWAYS gets me 🤣🤣🤣

The valves in compressors are passively operated flap valves , a form of check valve , the intake opens under negative pressure in the cylinder and closes under positive pressure in the cylinder , the exhaust valve does the reverse. What you see is normal. The two different size pistons are because it is a 2 stage compressor , the 1st low pressure stage feeds into the 2nd high pressure stage.

That oil flavor should be called "Diaper Nightmare".

My compressor did that. The oil had stained the little oil level window so it always looked full and I always check. Then one day there was a puddle of oil on the floor that I thought leaked out of my chain saw bar oil compartment cause it always leaked. "Then one day my neighbor told me "my compressor was making a hell of a racket last night" The compression palace was malice'd.

Thank you BeardedFordTech for the teardown of your destroyed compressor. The carnage was epic and I enjoyed seeing it. Very impressive good sir.

All I can say is the electric motor driving this compressor is a beast to be able to power through that. It turned the crankshaft into a camshaft

There were a few oil changes missed, like 10 consecutively.

It looks like what happened was that they saw the perma-stain line on the sight glass and said "Oh, it has enough oil", even once it didn't anymore.

It is nice to have friends on the channel from time to time 🙂

33:03 *Time for the tool.* Eric's wrists: *NO GOD PLEASE NO!*

Eric!! You forgot to remove the spark plugs!!! Oh, wait...

Eric and Anthony...thank you for taking my mind off--other issues. I had to stop this great video not once, but TWICE to wipe a lovely red wine nose snort off my keyboard from laughing when you guys dropped lines that 1. caught me off guard and 2. were just so DA*M funny it took me minutes to recover. What a great "verbal" and "mechanical" bunch of fireworks to kick off the July 4th Holiday weekend. May you and your families both relax and enjoy the festivities! 🤣👍🍷💻

"We're crowning!". I spit a mouthful of coffee...

"Playing with the hole here....." Fingers going in to gooey places... I think I accidentally went on the wrong website..... Yeeeesh.

That once was probably a good air compressor, high quality. My boss kept one in his shop that was old when I got there and had only oil added to it. They don't deal with destructive combustion; no carbon. AN air compressor can last a very long time.We used that used air compressor for thirty years. It was really loose, sounded like it had no problem rotating.

There used to be a day when all we had were "regular" tools. The ratchet was a wonderful tool!

Nice... something different. Thanks Eric❤😂😎👍 (and yes, it is still...an engine....lol)

Great video, in my shop we maintain our own equipment. Had the same air compressor for over 20 years no problems. Little side note when you knocked out that wrist pin and hit that snack pack box, I got a kick out of that. That mystery pipe going to the back of the air compressor behind the crankshaft, that is the unloader. When the compressor turns off it bleeds the supply line to the air tank, so the compressor starts with no load. There tank has over hundred psi, so if the air tank supply pipe is not bled off, the compressor will not start, either burn up the motor through the circuit breaker.

I've dealt with a lot of recip compressors over the years. Most were much larger than this but, if someone should have measured the normal running current of the motor driving the compressor and correctly sized the thermal overloads based on the running current. That might (MIGHT) have prevented complete destruction by shutting itself down.

That “fluid” looks like Taco Bell the morning after

That was awesome! About 32:15, when he’s using the air hammer to get the wrist pin out of the first piston. You can see something ignite in the piston! Just a quick flash! Great videos! Love the variety! Keep it up! Thank you!

Guest teardown are next level! Now you need to get some racers in to do teardown of their stuff. Drag racing, NASCAR, open wheel. Good stuff!

Use the parts for an oil company advertisement “pay me now or pay me more later” as in big $$$$$ 😂🤣

The weird looking valve is a reed valve. It has a flat piece of metal that allows air in but not out. Large piston is low pressure small is high pressure. Air comes in the normal looking valves goes into the reed valve to the high pressure side to tank.

Testament to the air compressor's quality to survive that long.... Lucky that poor thing didn't burst into flames with as hot as it was to do that.

That was AMAZING!!!! EPIC CARNAGE!!! I wish this channel was in existence in 2012. I had lost power due to Hurricane Sandy. I borrowed a generator from my brother-in-law's business. After two days, it died, and sounded bad while in it's death throes. I opened the oil plug and the dreaded metallic paste/liquid came out. I'm assuming bad stuff happened. I gave it back and they probably reamed out the guys responsible for maintenance. I imagine that what I was seeing was disintegrated bearings. Would have made for an interesting teardown. I'll keep you in mind for the next engine I blow up. Oh, and thanks Anthony! This video was good for many loudly vocal chuckles.

Thanks and Eric and Anthony, that was fun to watch!

My grandpa was a refrigeration compressor repairman. All his stuff he worked on were operated by check valves - opened by either vacuum or compression. This is why the intake and exhaust valves look different from each other, some open one way, the others open the other way. Large chamber pulls from outside and compresses to the small one, that then compresses further into the tank. Super easy to work on, and the only spinning parts were the crankshaft and rotating assembly.

Oh man! I can't believe how slowly that thing was beaten to death! Yet it still worked "enough" with all that damage, because that didn't happen in a day!

Undoubtedly, the best teardown video ever! You guys have to do more together. It's just the best entertainment I've seen on KZfaq

That “small wrench” was manufactured in my city! Diamond tool in Duluth, MN 2:41 😊

Wait... No water pump? 😂😂😂

That big electrical thingy hanging off the side of the crankcase is a Low Oil Level Switch. It's a float switch designed to shut off the motor when the crankcase oil level falls dangerously low. It's purpose is to prevent such situations. It's obviously either defective or it was never wired in to the control circuit. Not an uncommon situation. This brings back fond memories. Air compressors and refrigeration compressors are very similar to ICE engines. I worked on such devices for 40+ years. This was one of your most entertaining videos to date. Thanks...

😢 That's the best teardown video ever! You have found your foil. You must do more together! Such fun

This was GREAT! It'd be SO much fun to do a teardown with you. The banter and antics are great! BTW that "fluid" looked like dog diarrhea after they eat chocolate.

"Just turned it on to air up bike tires for the boy scouts and it shut off." I bet that thing sounded like a trapped bear in that room, records were broken on this channel. Fantastic content like always.

that "oil" eek. Glad I wasn't eating when you two showed it.

We need more collaborations like this! Great stuff!

The crank ground itself into a cam!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂

You have inspired me to check the oil in my compressor

A guest! Nice. Little change from car engines is nice from time to time, like the car salvages / projects. Keep the good work! Cheers from Germany.

Excellent video!! FYI That is a pump. Well, it *WAS* a pump! A compressor is the pump, tank, and other parts. This information came from my brother-in-law who works on these. I was wanting to upgrade the pump on my single stage compressor to a two stage. I started sending him links to cheap two stage pumps. This got his thought process flowing. He started building me a Quincy 5 HP pump. He asked if I had a tank. Well, he scrounged up a dented tank for me. Long story shorter, he gave me a complete 5 HP Quincy two stage compressor! Remember, this all started by me sending links to compressors, er I mean pumps.

Very nice! Eric, Love that you went outside the box for this video!

I can see the Facebook Marketplace ad now; "For sale: Air compressor head. Low hours, well cared for. May need minor maintenance. No lowballs, I know what I got."

Malice in compression palace!

I had to laugh at the brake cleaner segment! Ha! Great job!👍. My wife gasps whenever I use brake cleaner, so I had to show her. Sadly, but predictably, she wasn’t amused. She just doesn’t get how guys get a laugh. On a serious note, that stuff is something to be careful with. One day you might do a tear down of an engine from a vehicle being towed that was left in gear - that might have similar damage as this motor driven compressor. Thank you for a great video!

viscosity of mud 😂

Massive thanks to Anthony for turning a huge negative for himself into a positive for all of us, it sucks the compressor blew up due to someone else's negligence but it makes for an interesting video. I've honestly never seen a compressor this bad, usually it's just the roller bearings on the crank or broken rings before someone figures out there's enough damage to switch it off asap.

Great teardown. Do more like it. Nice guest too!

yeah, putting that in your parts washer would require a replacement of the machine. I would say that you could use a power washer outside of your shop. but I am sure the EPA would track down all of the metal fragments back to your location, and fine you $50,000.00!

That oil just looked as me taking a shit 🤣

Brother, we had a compressor in our shop we changed to Amsoil compressor oil. Our friend had the same compressor he ran his CNC machines with. It ran 18 ro 20 hours a day. His would overheat and shut down. We sold him ours and he hooked it up to his CNC machines. It never once shut down because of overheating. He ran that compressor for 6 more years before he retired and sold it all. I believe in Amsoil compressor oil

That rod was hammer-welded back together!

Those big pistons said happy Independence Day!

Wow, that's the worst carnage I've seen short of racing stuff going boom. Thank you for the content

Wow! Tear down crossovers! Love it.

It doesn't smell as bad as rear end fluid. Eric, be careful holding his rod. You guys crack me up. That was different but fun. thanks for sharing.

I'll go out and check my compressor oil NOW!

Oh, a Harley Davidson engine...!

That was cool. That's the thing about having an electric motor that doesn't care spinning it after things start to go bad......it just keeps shredding and shredding and shredding. I'm surprised you don't have snap ring pliers. Anyway, lots of fun. Glad you did this.

Wow those little pistons looks very much like the pistons out of my Puch 250 2 stroke motorcycle it had 2 small pistons one behind the other and both pistons were connected to the same con rod with one throw of the crank. They shared a common combustion chamber in the head. This was fun guys I will check out the other channel. All the best from Australia. Look forward to you 2 doing another video.

For that wrist pin to break out and then the end to be forge welded back together that got HOT! 🔥

"Can you imagine servicing these?" Maybe that's the problem here, the tech imagined that they serviced it

little education for folks interested. this is a 2 stage air compressor. big cylinder is the low side. smaller is the high side. that big chunk is a heatsink and junction between the two. it cools the air a little after the first compression stage so its a little easier to compress in the 2nd stage. First stage brings the air from atmosphere to something in the middle say 100psi. then the 2nd stage takes that 100psi to the final 175psi. you can always tell which one is the first stage because thats the one that sucks in fresh air. its the one with the air filter attached. The tube you take off at 5:04 is the decompression valve. It vents the pressure out of the cylinders after the compressor hits its shutoff. This makes it easier for the motor to start again since it does't have to pump against the high pressure from previous run. prevent dead stalling the motor at 0 rpm. Theres supposed to be a clutch mechanism in all that DIY antisieze. when the pump stops. the valve opens and vents the pressure. it stay open during initial start up so the motor can build rpm. then it closes and the compressor builds pressure. valves are one way valves. thats why 2 are intakes and the outlet is flipped. this failure is purely because they never changed the oil or inspected it. They just replaced the air filters.. these things are splash lubricated. if the oil can't splash around freely. things wear out and then the compressor doesn't compress.. then it works harder and longer. hotter til it cooks itself and implodes. just like car engine.. CHANGE OIL REGULARLY. Those valves were way dirty too. so it could have not been sealing well. pump works harder, longer and again cooks itself to implosion

Finally the pudding snack pack box makes itself useful instead of just sitting on the shelf in the background week after week doing nothing but making us wonder whats going on with it & why is it sitting there on that shelf for the many months its been there!?😂🤣🤔

"Malace in the Compression Palace" had me laughing

Ok, that was comedy gold ! Great collab, i hope there'll be more.

I've got the same basic compressor in my shop. The 4 cylinders are closer in size to each other. It's about 70 years old and was rebuilt ~40 years ago by a previous owner. Sad to see such a good piece succumb to lack of maintenance.

That was a fun video! Nice change. You should do more of them!

I always wondered what would happen if i forgot to oil the compressor at work. This was a fun video to watch!

The large pistons are low pressure, the small ones are high, so the air should go from inlet, to low, to high, to outlet The valves are spring loaded (no pushrods), the ones with the holes are exhaust/outlet

Epic teardown. This was awesome!

This reminds me of my 40 year career in the grocery business. The compressors that ran all the coolers and freezers would constantly go down. Maintenance would put a bandade on them just to keep them 😂 running? 😂😂😂 Until one maintenance worker decided to take a inspection cover off. IT WAS GRENADED! It won't have been cheaper on the company just to keep the Maintenance up on them.

i noticed the lifting lugs on top of the case might have survived. thanks, this one is for the books.

That was some amazing pistons and crank. I cannot believe all the little pieces of metal and bearing material in that thing. Even the bearings destructed. Amazing is all I can say. Thanks for showing me just how bad a compressor can get.

That brake cleaner outbreak at 35:40 looks like it would likely be even approved by @RainmanRaysRepairs or something. So much spray...so much clean! Too bad you guys couldn't (yet?) get to use RRay's "Dramatic Brake Clean Reveal" sound! ( #brakecleanmafia ? ) Anyway, wow, even brake cleaner was having trouble budging THAT 'metal-cheese porridge'. Did the maintenance company EVER change the oil?! Or even LOOK at the oil? What oil does it normally take? Hydraulic oil, regular motor oil or what? I can't even decide what it might have been due to the concentrated glitter-slime. I see oil feed holes in the rods...is there a cheese-pump in there somewhere? I mean, 'an oil pump'? It looks like something wanted to ATTEMPT to pump that cheese, at least ideally or something. This whole teardown made me laugh several times during watching it, for anything that's worth. :D

Thanks Anthony!!!

I laughed and laughed! What a fun different bonus video. I always look forward to the next one. Your punny and silly humor set your channel apart and above. Thanks!

I love this channel so much. At this point i would watch you tear down a tv remote and still love it

Im dying of laughter from this

I really like how the first piston has a MIX of stamping on the right side, which means it rotated between one swat and another of the piston against the top of the 'melon'..? Jug? Whatever. Was that compressor ever serviced at ALL? I would look into suing them to refund fees paid for "services not rendered"...that thing is AMAZING in all the wrong ways. That crankshaft was SO dry-looking. Though with how loose all that stuff is, I think that room it was in is a bit TOO sound-isolated. That thing must have been sounding like running a suit of armor in a tumble-dryer. That compressor's pistons must have been being PUNCHED back up with each stroke to round off that rod like that. Just...yeah, 'wow', that thing is amazing.

Malice in the compression palace 😂. Awesome