On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:40:34 AM UTC-4, Oren wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:32:04 -0400, Stormin Mormon

wrote:



I've got a 3 gal pancake compressor that rides

with me in the van. Today I put on a tire that

I'd bought at garage sale, and got the compressor

out to air it up. The compressor normally goes

up to 100 PSI and shuts off, today it runs up

to 20 PSI.



So, I take the cover apart, and take the cylinder

head off. Put in some new 10w30 oil, to relubricate

the permanant lube bronze bushing. Well, we're up

to 60 PSI, and I can reinflate the tire.



After a couple phone calls to friends, I finally

find the problem which is.....



how many others had the same thing?



Neighbor had the same thing happen to his HF unit. He tinkered with it

awhile, but gave up and sold it in a yard sale.

That's what I was thinking too. HF and diagnose, fix, repair does not
compute. Buy for a cheap price, when it dies, kick it to the curb.

Kind of like the guy here with the leaf blower that he bought for $5
without it working. If it worked, I'd pay $10, maybe $20 if it looked
like it was in good shape and ran. But when you can buy new stuff
cheap, it isn't worth the time and money to try to fix some cheap
thing.