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Dog said:
I worked at Taylor Diving for 15 years, Lol - this ain't no dive compressor. Kidding..been using Seco Lube but shipping for 1 stinking quart is just stupid. Several post have been good with I Rand oil so now on my list when Seco 500 used up.
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To be fair I used hydraulic oil in my hengs, this dive compressor clone that does 10 liters a min (allegedly) is the first time I put good oil in one. It was a corner to be turned for me, putting 15 quarts of premo synthetic automatic trans fluid into a built trans is something I would've never done on a project truck either. Here I am 180 degrees different than I was when I started pcp when the marauder came out. 😁. I started so cheap I was hand pumping on principle alone.

For the deep lurkers, the tuxing dive compressor clones are pretty good. Do not buy 115v. Buy the gasoline one if you don't have a 220 outlet. The data plate was optimistically low at best and didn't list locked rotor amps. I found them circumventing joe Brancatos markup on the carrette compressors and went even bigger. Lots of scba cubic feet to fill kills small compressors. OR AT LEAST I Do. If you fill scbas weekly, take care of your compressors.
 
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6gun said:
For the deep lurkers, the tuxing dive compressor clones are pretty good. Do not buy 115v. Buy the gasoline one if you don't have a 220 outlet. The data plate was optimistically low at best and didn't list locked rotor amps. I found them circumventing joe Brancatos markup on the carrette compressors and went even bigger. Lots of scba cubic feet to fill kills small compressors. OR AT LEAST I Do. If you fill scbas weekly, take care of your compressors.
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Yep, Joe is expensive and I read some really nasty remarks on line. However he stand behind his work and re-adjusted a regulator, no extra charge on my mistake..including shipping. He even took back a Tato silencer because it fails on a Gauntlet .25.

There are pictures of a failed Tuxing media filter housing that was deemed SEAM (!) welded that may still be posted on the amazon reviews...I posted that link moons ago.

Cheers
 
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Dog said:
Yep, Joe is expensive and I read some really nasty remarks on line. However he stand behind his work and re-adjusted a regulator, no extra charge on my mistake..including shipping. He even took back a Tato silencer because it fails on a Gauntlet .25.

There are pictures of a failed Tuxing media filter housing that was deemed SEAM (!) welded that may still be posted on the amazon reviews...I posted that link moons ago.

Cheers
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He does stand behind what he sells and is quite helpful. The negative is that he sells a lot of chinese stuff getting re branded and sold as something better than it is. I did work for another hpa supplier local to jb and that was their issue with him. Chinesium, that's it.
 
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Ricklin said:
Unless you have access to a high end materials lab, not to mention the guys to run the gear...
Separating pure Chinesium garbage from the quality products is IMPOSSIBLE.
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Totally agree. I'm now of the buy once cry once mentality and try to just buy firefighter or mine safety or dive components if possible. Lucky me doing this guy's kitchen I was given a box of insanely nice salt water rated equipment made in the usa.
 
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6gun said:
Totally agree. I'm now of the buy once cry once mentality and try to just buy firefighter or mine safety or dive components if possible. Lucky me doing this guy's kitchen I was given a box of insanely nice salt water rated equipment made in the usa.
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Sweet! I've told the story before it bears repeating. A friend had a business idea, have a Chinese manufacturer make "clone" jet ski pump impellers and offer a quality product for much lower cost. He received and tested first article sample impellers from his Chinese supplier, they were superb and outperformed the OEM impellers. He ordered up a container of impellers. Yes he paid a ton of tooling costs as well. Selling the new impellers proved a very rocky road, they were failing within months. Early on he ceased selling them and took a huge loss. That loss was even bigger when he tried to sell what impellers he had left as scrap. Scrap dealers just said, we don't know what it is, but it does not test as any stainless alloy we know of. No soup for you! Bad goes all the way to the bone with low quality Chinese products, the raw material itself is suspect.
Of course my friend had no legal recourse whatsoever.
 
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Ricklin said:
Sweet! I've told the story before it bears repeating. A friend had a business idea, have a Chinese manufacturer make "clone" jet ski pump impellers and offer a quality product for much lower cost. He received and tested first article sample impellers from his Chinese supplier, they were superb and outperformed the OEM impellers. He ordered up a container of impellers. Yes he paid a ton of tooling costs as well. Selling the new impellers proved a very rocky road, they were failing within months. Early on he ceased selling them and took a huge loss. That loss was even bigger when he tried to sell what impellers he had left as scrap. Scrap dealers just said, we don't know what it is, but it does not test as any stainless alloy we know of. No soup for you! Bad goes all the way to the bone with low quality Chinese products, the raw material itself is suspect.
Of course my friend had no legal recourse whatsoever.
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An important lesson I hope lurkers find! There is a ton of energy in the air we use. We never know if the bolts holding the Yong hengs together, the cases, the brass knockoff fosters or the stainless line is rated for or the material strengths or quality. Take the risk you're comfortable with and don't be mad if it let's loose 😁. That's what I do. 30 yr old cylinders and all haha
 
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Age has close to zero bearing on product longevity. In many cases older vintage products are more desirable and valuable than the brand new stuff. And then there are polymers, plastics of course.
Damn few new semi auto shotguns I would trade for my 40 YO Winchester SX1 for instance. The HK VP7 was the first polymer pistol, so far so good, will the next half century be as kind? I've yet to see a Polymer material that does not change with time. Time will tell.
 
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