info on Ingersoll rand compressor

[coppersteel]

looking for any information i can get on a Ingersoll rand NE-1 air compressor. if anyone has info or places to look it up I would appreciate it. I'm trying to save this one from being scraped. If you knows how much something like this would weigh please let me know ill need to get a good trailer to hull it away. its 9 foot long and 3.5 feet wide from the outside if the fly wheels.

 

[Jim Christie]

There are several old threads on old compressors on this forum if you try the forum search some are about Ingersoll Rand and others have posts about Ingersoll Rand in them .
I can't save the search link or couldn't in the old forum format but this is one of them .

Steam Powered Ingersoll Rand Imperial Air Compressor

I purchased the old Henry Vogt Machine company in Louisville, KY and it has a great old Ingersoll Rand Imperial Type X Air Compressor. It was in operation at the plant until the late 90s and appears to be complete and still ready to run. I am planning to tear down the building it is located...

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You might also try sending a private message to Rick Rowlands who has posted in this linked thread or perhaps connecting with him through the Youngstown Steel Heritage Museum

Tod Engine

Another thread I posted I.R. links in

steam powered generator ?

Hi All i have recently taken over the old Westinghouse factory in Hamilton ontario . i managed to save the original steam powered generator from the boiler house and now have it mounted on a pedestal in the courtyard of our headquarters . we would like to put a commemorative plaque on it to...

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Good luck with your efforts to save the compressor.
You don't give a location under your user name so perhaps if you were to give a general location where you or the compressor are there may be some members of this forum that could help you if you aren't too far away .
Jim

 

[hendeyman]

coppersteel:

Please post the bore and stroke of your NE-1, this will determine the weight. The NE-1 with poppet style valves was replaced
by the ER-1 with Rogler style valves. I used to own and operate a NE-1 more than fifty years ago and I should still have all the
information about this type compressor in my files. If you go back further in time , you can even find this style with Hurricane
valves and tailrod inlets, all good I-R compressors. Somewhere in the archives, I posted information about the NE-1 compressors, but I can't tell you where to find it.

Hendeyman

 

[coppersteel]

coppersteel:

Please post the bore and stroke of your NE-1, this will determine the weight. The NE-1 with poppet style valves was replaced
by the ER-1 with Rogler style valves. I used to own and operate a NE-1 more than fifty years ago and I should still have all the
information about this type compressor in my files. If you go back further in time , you can even find this style with Hurricane
valves and tailrod inlets, all good I-R compressors. Somewhere in the archives, I posted information about the NE-1 compressors, but I can't tell you where to find it.

Hendeyman

Only info I got is the comp cycle is 12, the stroke is 11" disch press is 100. Thank you for trying to help.

 

[Tom A]

Wow! I had no idea such a thing existed.
Was there a remote storage tank for compressors like this?

 

[coppersteel]

Wow! I had no idea such a thing existed.
Was there a remote storage tank for compressors like this?

Yeah but strangely it wasn't that big only about the size of a 55 gal drum.

 

[wheels17]

Please update your location, as this will allow more relevant answers. One nice old engine museum is the Coolspring Power Museum in Coolspring, PA. They focus on gas field equipment, but I think they have a number of air compressors as well. They might be able to link you to another museum that might be more relevant.

They have a big Snow gas compressor that they run that is amazing.

 

[coppersteel]

Please update your location, as this will allow more relevant answers. One nice old engine museum is the Coolspring Power Museum in Coolspring, PA. They focus on gas field equipment, but I think they have a number of air compressors as well. They might be able to link you to another museum that might be more relevant.

They have a big Snow gas compressor that they run that is amazing.

I'll see if I can get in contact with them, im located in battlecreek Michigan so I'm a ways from them.

 

[Jim Christie]

I tried some searches on the Hathi Trust site and found this catalogue with some information on the NE-1

Ingersoll-Rand products. [Catalogue

There are 25 matching terms related to the NE-1 .
I only looked at a couple of them and there is a fair amount about them here

Ingersoll-Rand products. [Catalogue

If you are in Michigan perhaps the Henry Ford Museum would have one or some more information in their archives.
Other Ingersoll Rand publications here

Catalog Search Results

Jim

 

[dkmc]

My guess is it weighs 6500 lbs