Good compressor, but keeps arriving damaged. Don't buy yet.,
April 28, 2012 Engineer dude - See all my reviews
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OK, so this seems to be an outstanding compressor, with one major, major flaw: the packaging is amazingly inadequate, and it has arrived --twice now!--damaged. Do not buy this compressor unless you want to send it back, until they redesign the package. The problem is that there is virtually no padding of any kind in the heavy box it ships in! It is free to bang around during transit, and when it is dropped (even a short distance, I imagine) things break.
The first one arrived on time, but there were several holes in the box where a part had worn through, or punched through when banged around. I mean completely through, and this is heavy cardboard 2 layers thick! So the air filter was broken, one of the cooling fins on the compressor was broken off, the latch on the tool box busted, and paint scraped off in several places. I fired it up anyway to see how quiet it really would be, as I was seriously thinking of just getting a refund. It really is quiet, and seems to be...Read more