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Grant Erwin wrote:
Alex wrote:

I am shopping for a 60 gal 5 HP or bigger air compressor. Can anyone
comment on Husky compressors sold at Home Depot? Any other brand?

Husky will work fine for inflating tires or running a small nail gun. It
will be a loud, vibrating single stage imported air compressor, probably
impossible to get parts for. However, it is much cheaper than what most
guys on this NG
recommend, which is to buy a Quincy or Ingersoll Rand.

I suggest looking in your area at used industrial compressors.

Grant

Thanks for the info.
What about Campbell-Hausfeld is also no good?

I believe C-H is Husky.

And, I beg to differ with Grant.
I have a 26 gal vertical Husky, bought "damaged" at HD for half-price, with
a compressor head virtually identical to those found on SpeedAire. In fact,
that's why I bought it, because I heard a fellow's SpeedAire, and marveled
at how quiet it was. Recognized the head on the HD Husky.

It is a cast iron head, oil, belt drive, with a 115/230V motor, heavy
flywheel--all good things.
And tech support that actually had a clue about re-wiring the motor. There
is a 1-800 number right on the tank, which works!

My only complaint is that altho the regulator has a set-able pressure
spring, there is no differential spring--even tho it looks like it has one,
as there are two springs. But they both do the same thing.
Bummer.

I took off the fan belt shroud to get more of a fan effect from the flywheel
spokes, and re-plumbed the whole thing, with extra make-up tanks to get
around 60 gal or so, and multiple quick disconnects, etc.
I also wired in a separate relay for the motor, so that the pressure
regulator just switches relay coil current, and not full motor load. Should
last much longer that way.

My friend, however, has a big-assed 80+ gal Husky two-stage, which burnt out
in about a year, and was noisey.
Also, the fellow with the quiet SpeedAire also has a larger two-stage
SpeedAire, which is much more noisey than his small single stage, and with
head problems he had to fix.
Go figger.

The consensus here is to avoid Sears compressors at all costs.
Avoid aluminum heads (they say), direct drive, and oil-less.
Altho I have an Alton 10 gal aluminum direct drive *with* oil! Sam's club,
$99. Noisey pita, tho, but it works. Use it mostly as a makeup tank.

The compressor is for shop air, and a Fadal cnc milling machine, which uses
a lot of air.
And yeah, I'm the envy of my neighbors when it comes to filling tires.
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