ransley wrote:
....
... I wonder what broke on the PC compressor, and was the
defective part fixed with the same cheap chinese part. Things are not
like they used to be. Now if there is an issue with the compressor is
there a PC shop nearby, do they offer and honor any warranty?

There may have been nothing really wrong with it -- a lot of
reconditioned tools are the old or obsolete models, some are stock from
failed distributorships, etc., there are the returns from the "buy, do
the weekend project, return didn't satisfy/work" crowd and then there
are the actual defective or early-death returns. It's not necessarily
possible to know which any given unit is other than sometimes one can
figure out the discontinued.

As for the repair/refurbishment, it certainly will have the same pieces
parts as the original unless there has been a general engineering change
for the model. You'd certainly not expect a warranty repair on your
Toyota to have a Honda part, would you? For manufacturers, "parts is
parts" -- whoever/wherever the suppliers are, they're interchangeable
and vendors may and often do change while the specifications are the
constant. What the quality level is is dependent mostly on the target
price range of the end product.

The location of local service is dependent wholly on where one is and
size of town/city and doesn't really make any difference other than the
point raised previously -- if they're OEM-sponsored remanufactured, they
generally have the same warranty/service conditions as the originals--if
not, they'll say. It's the non-OEM-sponsored liquidation outlets that
are questionable as to whether there will be any support/warranty that
I'd caution against.

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