While this damage could be spotted quickly once identified, none of it was obvious when looking the unit over casually. On closer examination, I found a shattered pipe nipple, a smashed pressure valve and a busted pressure gauge. As I was going through the start-up checks, I found air whooshing out of the fitting at the top of the tank. The compressor was still bolted to the pallet and the cardboard over the whole thing was abused but not ripped or punctured. This damage was not immediately obvious on delivery. In addition, at somepoint between the factory and my location, some forklift jockey tipped the thing over so it fell flat on its side. The arrangement of pressure valve, regulator and gauges is an inelegant, clunky tree of things screwed together with pipe nipples. Instruction manual does not explain some basic things, like how to drain the oil (although maintenance schedule is included), and the compressor pump came filled with oil over the top of the sight glass while the manual says to fill only to the line at half-way. The drain valve requires nimble finger access at the dead bottom center of the tank, annoying close to the floor. The "foot rest" is at the wrong height to hold the tank nicely vertical. The wheels on mine need 1/2" spacers on the axle to take up axial slop. There is a long line of complaints about the motors burning out early, but since there's nothing exotic about the motor it should be a fairly easy replacement if/when needed.Ĭonstruction is neither outrageously bad nor inspiringly good. The Q12126VP is definitely not one of Quincy's better quality compressors. This was the best upgrade I could find from an ear-shattering oilless Husky mobile. If my shop had the space, I would have gone with a larger non-mobile compressor. Just so you dont think im full of it I own 3 portable Emglos 1 hp to 3hp three Rol airs 1.5 hp and a 3hp with 2 stage pump a 8hp gas in the shop i have a 5hp sanborn (junk) a 5hp 2stage emglo plumped in to the sanborn 10hp IR and a 185 cfm gardner dever And the hart of it is it a cheap aluminum pump runing at aloud hot 1500rpm or a solid cast iron pump runing at a cool Quiet smoth 800rpm. Look for a name brand motor Baldor or Lesson 1725 rpm not a specialy cheap made motor that runs a goofy 3025 rpm or something like on IRs Look at the presure switch does it say Square D or china on it. When your looking at a compressor look at the compnents. And I think ther in that 800 price range. And all that was wrong was a bad valve spring 120 buck rebiud kit i think it will go anther 10,000Īnther compressor I have that I think would be great for you is a emglo 2 hp that you can switch from 120 19a to 220v 8a it has 2 cylinder pump and puts out 8 cfm. i just rebiult the pump on my 3 hp emglo last week its a v4 pump that puts out about 13 cfm I estamait that its got about 10,000 hours on it it just over seven years old and it runs all day every day. and iff its only puting out 4-5 cfm its probily a 1 hp 3 peak I Run alot off diferent compressors being a carpenter by day and jack of all buy night the best portable compressor I think are Emglo (Dewalt bought the Emglo name and make them in china or some were now ) the company is still going under the Jenny name these are buy far the quitest smothest simple and cheap to work on and they have real head unloaders bilt in for constant run. I agree with John stay away from IR like stated they been living off of a name. What do you guys suggest? One of these? Why? Have a different suggestion altogether? It is more expensive but as long as it's under about $800 tops it shouldn't matter to 'the boss' so that's not much of a concern of mine. Between these two machines and to my untrained eye the Quincy seems like it would be the better choice with it's larger tank and higher CFM rating. I understand that neither of these is of the 'good' lines from either IR or Quincy and are basically import machines though from what I understand the Quincy seems to be largely built in the USA (or at least assembled here). I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to air compressors but these both seem like they would fit the bill. Ingersoll Rand Garage Mate Model# P1.5IU-A9 Northern Tool) Given the specs I've been asked to work within I've come up with two possible choices: They want an mobile vertical one as there is already a spot on the truck for it. They need one that can provide 4.5CFM 90PSI) for for up to 10 minutes at a time with only maybe 2-3 cycles like this per hour at most. This is for our guys to use on the jobsite, specifically ones with 120v power only and a gas powered one is not an option. Hey guys, 'the boss' has tasked me with picking out a new air compressor and I could use some advice if you can give it.
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