![]() Doing its thing! The FX compressor fills a big scuba tank or an individual airgun � it's your choice. |
![]() The compressor stands 23.5 inches tall and weighs 63 lbs. when filled with its cooling water. You can see the one handle attached at the lower left side, but the unit is ungainly to pick up no matter where or how you grab it. It's best to put it where you intend to use it and leave it there. |
![]() Remove the rear grill, and the entire mechanism is exposed. The large pulley at the top rotates, which causes the eccentrically mounted pump tube to expand and contract. Because it does this relatively fast, compared to the speed of the manual pump from which it is derived, water-cooling has been provided. Note the brass fixture on the right side. The brass screw head at the bottom of this fixture is the air bleed screw, which pokes through the grill when it is installed. ALWAYS bleed with this screw - not the screw-on a fill device you may attach to the compressor. This is important because it purges the water filtered out during compression. | ![]() Here you see the coiled copper tubing that brings the warm water in front of the cooling fan of the electric motor. Air is drawn over this coil, removing heat. |
![]() This is the business end. The brass fill port has a brass DIN adapter screwed into it. Note the large rubber boot to the right of the gauge. These are the electronics that were located inside the back of the first model of this compressor. They were tucked behind the brass fixture on the right wall. If you wanted to adjust the pressure shutoff point, you had to partially disassemble it. Now, everything you need to access is located right here, where it's easy to get to. |