On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:47:02 -0800, Grant Erwin
wrote:

If you buy a POS Husky or Sears (or Campbell-Hausfeld, or Coleman, or
Tinkertoy for that matter) you will feel like your own nickname. And not
even any K-Y. These little consumer-grade air compressors are ALL loud,
run hot, vibrate, don't live up to their specs, and are short-lived. In
the last 3 months I've seen 2 dead Craftsman "5 hp" air compressors at
yard sales people were trying to give away. Both still shiny.

Forget ebay. Look in your local classifieds. I see old industrial compressors
*all* *the* *time* for $500 or less, real workhorses. I picked one up a few
years ago, an old Quincy 2-stage unit I paid $100 for, and I put a few bucks
into it and it's run perfectly ever since. It replaced a 1.5hp Sanborn
contractor's 2-wheel type, and the Quincy is MUCH quieter than the little
Sanborn was. I run it off of 240 single phase, by the way (that was what
the bucks were for, I swapped it from 440 3 phase to 240 single phase).

My advice is guaranteed. To be worth exactly what you paid for it. Referring
once again to your "peevee" nickname, opinions are like a**holes. Everybody
has one. You just read mine.

GWE

Proctologically Violated©® wrote:

Awl--

Can't afford Kellogg or Ing Rand, or anything fancy or 2-stage, so I'm
looking at Husky at Home Depot, or some of the Sears stuff. I know (think?)
I want a belt-driven oil compressor, as opposed to these direct-drive buzz
boxes (I got one--will drive you crazy--a $99 Alton from Sam's Club). I'm
thinking 26 gal vertical.

My main concern is noise. The Kellogg at my old shop was a great big
lub-dub workhorse, decades old, pretty quiet for it's size. And the noise
it did make was didn't penetrate your bones. But you can't really demo
Sears or HD compressors.

No problem going used on a good brand, but ebay is just becoming outta sight
and useless. Actually cheaper to buy Sears new, in many cases! But maybe
not better.

Any comments on various brands, noise, reliability? Any other issues
(besides cfm, etc.)? TIA.
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll


What Grant says. I use a two cylinder Speedair. I don't know who makes
the pumps for Dayton but they make good ones. Small, but plenty for my
shop. The first pump died after twenty years of almost daily use, It
failed because I didn't break in the new rings correctly. It was still
pumping when I replaced the rings, but a little oil was being used and
I don't like oil in my air.
ERS