[fastfredracing]

So today, after almost 20 years of faithful service, My old quincy emglo air compressor let the smoke out of itself. Sort of my fault, the unloader valve has been on the fritz for the last 2-3 years. I have to mess with it every 6 months or so. It started acting up late last week again, and I just did not have time to mess with it, and kept running it that way all week. It unloads the air pressure in the feed line so that the compressor can start under a no load condition. Tonight , there was a spark and smoke show coming out the compressor motor. I heard it humming when it tried to kick on, and I just did not get to it in time.
I ran down to tractor supply and bought a new IR compressor for the main shop. but I plan on rebuilding the old emglo, and use it in my upstairs garages , where I only do light duty work , and some sandblasting and painting. It will be replacing a 6 hp 60 gallon compressor that gets pretty overworked for sandblasting duties. I currently have both compressors inside the building, but I am growing tired of listening to that constant noise . I would like to to frame in a little room for my main shops compressor, but I would like to free up some space upstairs and move that compressor outside.
Bad idea? I was thinking of framing up a little compressor enclosure. Just two walls against the block building, a roof, and the whole front would be an access door on hinges.
Anybody run like this? Any other ideas? I also thought about buying a little shed, and putting the compressor in there, and I could also move some lawn mowers and junk out into it.