It's almost funny, I just bought a Quincy Compressor from Northern Tool last Monday. They just called me while I was writing this, to let me know that it's in. Mine is small 20 something gallon and at least 30 years old.
Now the funny part...I've been researching piping and filters and came across this thread yesterday. Maybe I should show this to my wife and then act like I want to buy a new compressor this week. Naw......I probably have too much life insurance for her to agree to that.
http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=48232
Stay from those old compressor---
if you don't know their history. The pics will tell more than I can type since I only (fortunately) have the use of my dominant right hand. Our son was given an old craftsman 3 hp 220 v. we got him a brad nailer for christmas, so he bought an air hose to try it out. i was hunkered down beside it watching the gauges. when it hit 130 psi i pulled out on the pressure relief to make sure it worked and it did. when it hit 150 psi i was about to lose my nerve and shut it down. then the tank blew, luckily for me, out the bottom. i feel quite fortunate to have survived this.the injuries were: bad laceration on the back of the left hand,all four bones broken where the fingers attach to the hand. left knee took a severe impact from tank spliitting and broke the tibia and femur.amazingly i never lost consciousness and felt a bad pain in the front of my neck. ran my right hand over that area after seeing my left hand and was actually relieved to see no blood in that area. apparently it blew my left hand into my throat.
the docs pinned the four bones together in my hand, put a plate about 8" long on my tibia and ran 4 screws into my femur.the ol timex took a liiken and is still tickin, just broke the band pin when it hit my neck.
the truly amazing part is my wife,son and his girlfriend and an older friend were in the garage when this happened, nothing happened to them outside of some ringing ears, not a scratch.
the fridge next to the compressor was a liitle worse for wear as evidenced in the pics. the little tv behind the compressor had the cabinet half torn off, but the picture tube was still intact.the 16' garage door got one roller knocked out of the track and about 12 sheetrock screws got the mud knocked off them.
all in all, i feel lucky i survived it. i guess we all have angels watching over us. i'll let the pics tell the rest.
mike
These pics were not the same accident, but were posted later in the same thread.
I was looking on Craig's List for a used one, but kinda glad now I bought new in light of the above info.