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| Air Compressor Problems | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 28 2008, 08:33 AM (122 Views) | |
| cub61 | Mar 28 2008, 08:33 AM Post #1 |
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Hey how's it goin' guys????
:) Have any of you guys ever purchased a Campbell Hausfeld Oilless type 25 gallon air compressors??? If so, do you guys ever have as much problems with them as I do???? Reason I'm asking, is due the fact that I can't keep mine running. When I bought it brand new it only lasted me about year because the ring seal on the piston popped and in result it quit compressor air into the tank. Well I replaced the piston that had the broken seal with a new one, and I even replaced the old piston chamber as well. Then one day I was filling a tire up with air and suddenly I noticed the compressor started to sound funny. And a big pop noise came out of it, and agian it quit compressing air but the motor was still going. So I shut down the compressor's electric motor, I removed the top cover that covers the motor and to only find the bolt that holds the piston to a large steel wheel that makes the piston move back and forth, had sheared it's self off and broke a metal strap the holds the motor in place. Anyone here ever have problems like this with a campbell hausfeld compressor???? |
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| dyt4000 | Mar 28 2008, 09:30 AM Post #2 |
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Mine didn't live very long. It broke the little cooling fan and burned up I guess. I now have a nice oil lubed cast iron 2 cylinder. ;) |
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| cub61 | Mar 28 2008, 11:26 PM Post #3 |
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Hey how's it goin' dyt4000??????
:) Thanks for the response. I pretty much terminated the Campbell Hausfeld air compressor, and I went and bought me a 23 gallon single piston oil lube type air compressor. And it works pretty good for shop use. I've had it for about a year and a half now, and I have'nt had any problems with it. :Thumbsup |
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| R Bedell | Mar 28 2008, 11:33 PM Post #4 |
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Cub61: I am by no means an expert in the Air Compressor arena, but I have vast experience in the refrigeration compressor field. All these compressors have oil. From what I have noticed by professional shops with air compressors, they ALL have a compressor with a crankcase and oil. I have to be thinking there is a reason for this. In addition, these oil-less compressors probably have a market for the very limited or occasional use. If someone has better insight to this situation or observation, feel free to chime in. |
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| cub61 | Mar 29 2008, 12:09 AM Post #5 |
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Hey how's it goin' Roland???
:) You're absolutely right about the oil-less type air compressors. After what I went through, I really believe this type of air compressors were made for very limited or occasional use. Due to the fact the compressors electrical motor and along with the piston chamber would get extremely hot during long periods of use. While the oil lube type air compressor that I now have and use for long periods of time, runs at a cool temp compared to a oil-less type compressor. But one thing that I did notice while I was removing the old piston chamber on the oil-less compressor, there was an extremely amount of friction going on between the piston seal and the piston chamber but only on a certain spot. And what puzzles me, is that the piston seal popped right in the same place that all the friction was taking place. Now I'm thinking that if this was an oil-less type compressor, this probably never would have happened. What do you guys think??? |
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| Yosemite Sam | Mar 18 2009, 03:50 AM Post #6 |
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Back in the early 90's I bought a portable Devilbliss oil-less air compressor (two small tanks pick up and carry around type) from the local tool store (at the time they would get defective/warranty/return items from different companies, repair them and then sell them again)... Anyway, over the years my Brother and I have just run the dog $#!* out of this little compressor. We've roofed a couple hundred houses built dozens of garages room additions ect., plus I/we use it any time we need air where it isn't practical to use the stationary compressor in the shop. A few years ago my Brother bought a New Crapsman 30 gal upright oil-less compressor, for his garage, he only used it about a dozen times and the motor shot craps (just after the warranty was out) so it sat in the corner for a couple of years... About a year and a half ago I was using my little Devilbliss compressor and it started to make a funny noise, before I could get to it to shut it off, the connecting rod/piston had broken. The set screw in the "crank shaft" had come loose and wollered the hole and the armature shaft, then the rod broke ... I took the crank and the armature to a friends house and turned the armature shaft and then turned the hole in the crank and made a bushing to put it back together, then after some research on the net I found that the piston from my Brothers Crapsman compressor was the same used in mine (actually I only found two different piston/rods for oil-less compressors). So I took the piston/rod out of the Crapsman and put in my compressor put it all back together and have been running the Dog $#!* out of it again for over a year now. That is my only experience with the oil-less compressors. I feel pretty lucky with the one I have as it has been a really good unit. I’m sorry to hear that you guys haven’t had such good luck with yours. |
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