Air compressor for Avenger

[PasadenaMike]

My large 6.8L Air Venturi tank arrived today from PA. They’re still on super sale. I’ll wait on the GX company to get their act together.
GX, I hope you’re paying attention to this thread!

I’d get the Omega Trail Charger if I were you if you can swing it

Eventually it may come to that Mike.

The service is excellent

[huntr]

After several email back and forths with GX Pumps the real problem has been revealed. The brochure/manual packed with my compressor has been replaced by a different one. They just didn't bother to make corrections to shipments.

This is what was packed with my compressor. Sorry, the scan from my computer didn't come out too clear.


This what they sent me two days ago. Which shows that I got the parts I was supposed to get, but...


This is the updated version I received today. This is a different list and picture. Who knows what's going on? I'm not sure they do. Well, they probably do, but no one else does.

[Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58)]

Thanks for sharing the updated parts list.  Not sure I can follow it to try and work on it, but it's something! 

[PasadenaMike]

Thanks for sharing the updated parts list.  Not sure I can follow it to try and work on it, but it's something! 

Lol I’m a tech and I wouldn’t even mess with it.

[BanjomanMI76]

I don't understand, GX has a product to be a market beater, but product and spare parts support negate this advantage.
Why don't they listen?
Maybe someone should send them some forceps. In the medical world they seem to work on pulling heads out of .....

[PikeP]

Spare parts are...spare, mostly 1 of each, however you do get 5 brust discs! 

These things still use those little dinky springs (part 14 in spare parts)? At least they supply 2 of those but, those are so tiny/flimsy, no wonder they are a high wear item lol.

[huntr]

My compressor shipped from NJ, which is why I got it in a couple of days. I live right next door in DE. But…I’m pretty sure  the emails are coming from outside the US, presumably China. The sentence structure and the fact that all the responses are sent after 9 PM, which would be morning in China, support the theory.

It would be interesting to have a qualified tech tear down an Omega and a GX side by side. The Chinese can build good stuff if they are contracted and the contractor specifies the quality of the build.  Left on their own, sometimes they use parts of lesser quality. However, it would be hard to judge quality from the look of a part in a small picture in a brochure.

[Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58)]

From my understanding, they have multiple warehouses they ship from and ship from the one that's closest to the delivery address.  Makes good business sense, since in this Amazon World we live in, folks expects things delivered in a matter of days!

[avator]

If you make a product that is bullet proof and lasts for ever you will sell one to each customer. If you make a great product that folks rave about but has limited lasting, you can sell rebuild kits and make a little more money as time goes by.
But, a good product with great reviews often results in repeat sales for products 2.0 and so on.
It's marketing 101.

[Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58)]

About the only thing you could probably buy one of and have it last forever, would be an anvil!!!!   

[Dbez1]

…a good product with great reviews often results in repeat sales for products 2.0 and so on.
It's marketing 101.

Like I said, I hope GX is following this thread.

[Spacebus]

If you make a product that is bullet proof and lasts for ever you will sell one to each customer. If you make a great product that folks rave about but has limited lasting, you can sell rebuild kits and make a little more money as time goes by.
But, a good product with great reviews often results in repeat sales for products 2.0 and so on.
It's marketing 101.

Good ol' planned obsolescence. If you ever heard real old timers complain about lightbubls, they are right. The "Phoebus Cartel", composed of lightbub manufacturers, got tired of not selling a lot of bulbs, and they all agreed to lower the quality so people would be forced to buy more.

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[avator]

Oh yeah, it's a fact.

[Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58)]

Thus the reason warranties typically run between 90 days and one year!   They design them to fail right after they come out of warranty! 

[Back_Roads]

  One must compare the cost of a compressor over its expected life span to cost of having tanks filled, or energy exserted by hand pumping. 

[Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58)]

  One must compare the cost of a compressor over its expected life span to cost of having tanks filled, or energy exserted by hand pumping. 

Trust me, it takes time and energy to hand pump and to even get out and get tanks filled.  IMHO the convience of a compressor is well worth the price of admission, even if you do have to pay that price every year or two!   

[avator]

  One must compare the cost of a compressor over its expected life span to cost of having tanks filled, or energy exserted by hand pumping. 

Trust me, it takes time and energy to hand pump and to even get out and get tanks filled.  IMHO the convience of a compressor is well worth the price of admission, even if you do have to pay that price every year or two!   

100%.. if I didn't enjoy shooting airguns I wouldn't... hand pumping would not be enjoyable to me...
Save that for you whooper snappers. 
I've really leaned to love the slower fill rate of the CS3.. I set the autostop, push play and go about my business of the workbench until "ding, fries are done".  I know just about how long it should run to fill the guns I use and if it seems to be running long, I glance over to see that the autostop has not failed.
My other compressors fill way too fast to take my eyes off of.

[Rat Sniper (AKA: PaulT58)]

Yep, slow and steady is not a bad thing!  Since they run so cool, you're not having to constantly keep an eye on the temperature gauge either.  Yea, I added one to my CS4, but it's really a joke, I've yet to see the temp rise above 80-85F! 

[avator]

I've put my hand on the case and the power supply after several runs and never felt the slightest amount of heat.

[MisterAP]

Yep, slow and steady is not a bad thing!  Since they run so cool, you're not having to constantly keep an eye on the temperature gauge either.  Yea, I added one to my CS4, but it's really a joke, I've yet to see the temp rise above 80-85F!

How did you select the temp gauge from all the available ones?