Air compressor choice - new or used?
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This section is fairly obvious - should it be a new or used
air compressor?
The answer may not be as obvious as you think depending on what you need and expect from your compressor.
Compressorman sells New Hydrovane Compressors
and several other
makes of used air compressors.
Many people in the trade have realised that some of the lesser brands of
manufacturers machines available are not all they seem. That's
why we sell Hydrovane and Compair compressors, they
are the best available.
Because of price competition some manufacturers have got too competitive on price for your good. Many
compressors are now only just what they say and no more, there are no free add-on's or free safety margins, but a lot more plastic and fresh air in the cabinets, everywhere they have looked to save money and that's not good for you the customer. You end up with a light weight machine which just about does what it says and no more and definitely will not grow old - it will be
U.S. long before that.
So you get an air compressor which is cheap and a supposed bargain - yes or no?
Cheap or what?
Well the original cash purchase price may not be too bad - beware any offers where they "give it you" for only £x a week - well at least until you have got a calculator out and know the true cost.
Only the other day we heard of a small company who were offered such a deal from a shiny suited salesman - 10hp division 3 screw
compressor (that means not so good) with small receiver (nothing else), payments over 5 years - although the warranty was for a year
only and the pleasure of a 25.9%
a.p.r. in very small print.
It gets worse - they were offered payments from £200 per month to as low as £50 on the same deal - luckily they read the small print and saw that at £50 per month for 5 years there was a final payment of just over £7000 - that's a total of £10K for a 10hp screw.
They were told to allow around £1K a year for service in the first year - so two £500 services on a new small compressor in its first year - I wouldn't want to own it in years 3, 4 or 5 or thereafter - by then you would be into real costs.
That's not to say you can't get a genuine good deal
I know that most of the main air compressor manufacturers are offering genuine good deals on the right machines, of that there is no doubt - but they wont be cheap loss making deals for them - they will be the correct deal at the correct price - that's business.
The good old days
In the late 1960's early 70's when Compressorman entered the trade there were none of these problems.
Air compressors were designed, improved, built and costed last. The customer ended up with a real quality machine, built to last at a proper price, no clever sales, no fancy tricks - just the right product at the right price.
Things went along like this in the 70's, 80's into the 90's and at this point things started to get a bit difficult and competitive and so new selling methods came to the fore and we ended up where we are today. Some say in a bit of a mess.
So back to the start - New or not so New?
Compressorman sells most makes of new compressors and will always be happy to supply you with the a quality machine of the correct type for your needs - contact us for a good deal.
We also have access to many used and reworked compressors which are often a much better deal.
About 12 months ago we were approached by a large company who had a 24/7 need for air in their manufacturing department - money was not the main object (although important) and we supplied an 8 year old Hydrovane which we had reworked to as new.
To date it has run 9000hrs ( the equivalent of 4 years ordinary use ) with only standard service and we expect at least a total of 5 years use in this plant ( 20 years elsewhere ) The back up
compressor is a 1970's Hydrovane in sound running order and has been used only when main machine is serviced.
We service the main machine every 2000hrs and both ourselves and the customer are very pleased with the choice of both to date.
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