From: none@none.com99   
      
   ... or rather it does stop, but not when you expect.   
      
   Yes, I am talking about that Craptor Supply / Craptersol Rank air   
   compressor again.   
      
   I put in a full day in the shop yesterday.  I was done, playing on the   
   computer and sipping on an ice tea when I heard the compressor kick on   
   and then kick immediately back off again.   
      
   I said the heck with that shit, turned off the contacter and headed in   
   the house.  This morning I found nothing obviously wrong, but it   
   wouldn't start.  The breaker was tripped in the bub panel.  I played   
   with various ideas on soft starting the compressor, but decided to check   
   the next obvious likely problem first.   
      
   I cycled the compressor on and turned it off.  There was no hiss.  I   
   grabbed a wrench, loosened the line... and there was the hiss.  The   
   unloader has failed.  Cold the motor has enough juice to start the   
   compressor, but after running all day in a hot shop with 113-117F   
   outdoors (more in direct sunlight) beating down on a metal roof the   
   resistance was just to high.  I can run for a few days the way it is,   
   but I am about to order a new contacter and unloader.  I suppose I   
   should make sure I have a spare check valve on hand too.  Yes you can   
   sometimes clean check valves, but it usually doesn't last long.   
      
   Any day I expect the bung to blow out the bottom of the tank, or the   
   compressor to throw a rod through the block.   
      
   In my opinion based on my experience Ingersol Rand and Tractor Supply   
   colluded to defraud customers with this abomination.   
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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