Last week I bought a Quincy 5 horse 2 stage 80 gallon compressor. it was dropped in transit and the copper tube from the pump to the tank was crushed. I have contacted all of the distributes within 300 miles and none of them will do anything, not looking for warranty just a replacement part.
WOW I thought they were top of the line.
Now I am on the phone wit the the west coast rep and all i hear is some women in the background talking about a party and a rep who doesn't seem to care.

 

Well like everything they dont pay the workers so you get someone filling a spot collecting a check each week that just dose not care.

IIRC on most that tube from the pump to tank is just a copper tube with flare ends so I cant see why you cant get another tube that can be flared to replace it?
Thing is first finding the tubing, hardware store may have the size needed?
The biggie a flaring tool to flare as that is a fare size tube.

Now because of the heat I dont know if you could use a hose like used between the tank & system piping because of vibration.
Then you might be able to have a hose made with the flare.
I would say you could swap pump / tank fittings but the tank side I think has a check valve and it has a flare.
Dave ----

 

I will most likely end up buying a piece of tubing and make it, it has ferules so no flaring. just have to find a hardware store that carries it.
still not happy that one of the top rated companies has such crappy customer service.

 

I hear you on the "crappy customer service".
Wonder what would of happened if you did not take it because it was damaged in shipping?
Then again they most likely had the money right?

I bought a used Snap - On Big Red off Ebay 10 years ago same size as yours that had a new motor and some other work done but was not running.
In short the check valve between tank & pump was bad and every time it tried to start the pump would not turn with PSI in the tank because of the check and the starter contacts welded them selves together. I also found the heads loose so new head gaskets and valves and the compressor runs great.
So for about $1200 for compressor & parts on a unit that went for somewhere near 3k
It is more than I will ever use in my home 2 bay garage as it came out of a 5 bay truck shop.


What will you be using for a dryer? The web has all kinds of DYI dryers.
I went with base board fin tube with a few fittings and 2 drip legs to fit where I first had it in a small 1 car garage.
When I moved I took it and the compressor above to my new 2+ bay home garage / work shop.
It is right out of the compressor to the dryer out of the dryer to my air pipe system that runs around the top of my garage in a loop with 5 hose drops.
1 drop at each head of the bays, 1 on each side of the garage (work bench is on 1 side) and 1 between the 2 bays on the door side.

When I spray painted my truck I had to set a box fan in front of the fins to help cool them to condense the water out of the hot air.
Also each hose drop has a drip leg but I have never gotten any water to them.
Dryer air comes in on the left and out the right side.

Compressor, dryer, piping and 1 hose drop w/drip leg


Dave ----

 

I bought a Quincy back in 2013 and it's seen very little use over the years, it wasn't long after warranty was up the damn thing started leaking oil out the bottom, found the gasket for it via google. I'm sure you could find and order a new pipe if you don't wish to jury rig it. Don't know how yours is set up but on mine that pipe is front and center and my ocd wouldn't let me do anything but use a Quincy or equivalent pre bent part. I wasn't going to also buy a pipe bender just for that one thing.

Excuse the HF press up front. Oh and while I went looking for a press at HF I took a walk down their compressor isle and they have Quincy clones fresh out of China I'm sure and they looked identical in every detail except they painted them black.

Well after I got the gasket and fixed the oil leak, one day I went to fire it up and that little switch it comes with stripped out, had to order another one of those but luckily it seems to be used on damn near all brands of compressors. You can see the switch at the bottom end of the pipe.

Had it not been for Quincys reputation and (specs mainly), I would probably never buy another, at the time it met every spec requirement to run my blast cabinet, tire machine, and misc air tools and wasn't too bad on price. Still made in the US and that was also key to buying but damn the China parts they must be using now is disgusting.

 

i got one back in 05. same thing, bad tube from dropping it. paid $225 for it.
i made one out of copper tube off a roll i had in the shop after getting the run around trying to find a replacement part..
still works great.

 

well finally today I found a hardware store that could find 3/4 OD bendable copper tubing, I need 3 feet, they bought a 50' roll to sell me the 3 feet, of course the company they bought it from is in NJ so 5 to 10 days shipping.

 

You know I just thought of this wonder if a HVAC supply house would have the tubing or any HVAC contractor?
Dave ----

 

I never thought of that! and I have a friend who owns Chino Heating and Cooling!

 

Ask that HVAC buddy if he can fix it, that have all the tools for working copper line.