- Oil lube pump for longer life
- Thermal overload protection for safety
- Compact, lightweight, and mobile
- 25 foot coil hose
- Heavy-duty rubber tires
The box looked suspicious, so I opened it in presence of the FedEx guy. The SINGLE tape holding the top in place, came off almost by itself..!
Allthough the corners of the box were torn, the styrofoam ends were "intact" and there was clearly no damage caused by the shipper..
Then I lifted it out of the box > NICE and LIGHT!! < BUT: Components fell out of the ripped, flimsy plastic foil cover. Wheels, handle and some individually packed, small parts were there BUT NO accessories as advertised (coiled hose etc.) At the initial inspection, found the main metal pipe (covered with heat sink fins) hanging LOOSE and obviously having BROKEN OFF the connection at the compression cylinder. It looked like the welding/solder connection had broken. This obviously would have rendered the compressor useless and NON functioning. No further inspection was performed, just repacked the unit carefully (evem added extra bubble wrap packaging (which should have been there in the FIRST place!!) And initiated Amazon's RETURN process, which so far was flawless and convenient as usual. I requested a refund (had no other choice from the instructions..!..?), but would NOT have asked for a replacement anyway, since I lost "faith" in this product!! Summary: I guess, "you get what you pay for", the price of ~$150.incl. "Free Super Saver" shipping, was toooo good to be true. The System looked NICE and COMPACT, was surprisingly LIGHT weight and had impressive specs. But it actually gave me the impression, it was a RETURN from someone else ALLREADY (missing components / "lousy" repacking. It's a shame, that these manufacturers built, what seemed to be, an actually nice unit and save money on the PACKAGING ! IF the unit would have been complete and NOT defective, it MIGHT have been a NICE Compressor ... I'll NEVER find out ... P.K.HBought it as a sample display last day when attending a trade show at Vegas. Sales manager was incredibly nice and cut me a good deal on this unit. It came with a lot of accessories that are really handy; although missing one nozzle but for the deal i got i couldn't have asked for more.
Comes with tires and handle that's easy to take it home. I have been using it occasionally for small household projects and been pretty happy about it.
Only concern is if anything happens to it, i don't have a receipt so i have to pay both labor and parts.
Will update my review if I am problems with it in the future.It would be a good little air compressor if it wasn't broke on arrival. I went for that super saver shipping and that may be my biggest mistake. The top of the box was open when I recieved it. My coiled hose was missing. One of the female connectors was broken off with part of the threading still on the connector. The plastic cover over the switch was also broke off. The way its made you have to have that in place to operate the machine. Most people would have returned it I guess but I lost all faith in this transaction and set it out by the dumpster. A 179.00 loss and a lesson learned.
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