Age 50 Check-Up of F200

November 2011, the rotary compressor n. 9411 returned to Pneumofore after 50 years of operation. His present working site is at Pontfor, one of the large metal forge plants in the Canavese area, near Turin and the HQ of our Company. In a fast evolving IT oriented world, heavy metal industry keeps its prestigious position at the bottom of any mechanical manufacturing. With nominal 250 kW (adsorbed 220 kW) for 2.080 m³/h capacity of 7 bar compressed air, this water cooled, rotary vane compressor worked about 300.000 hours. The unit has been cleaned, getting ready to work some decade more. No way our customer considers replacing it with a modern machine, being the criteria of reliability and durability of his pneumatic system first on his priority list. In fact, compressed air drives all the heavy hammers in his forge. On the right the tolerance check on the bearing with 340 mm diameter.