Who Made My Compressor and Where Do I Find Parts

by Mark
(Houston)

I recently bought 4 compressors. All are oil-less types with tanks ranging from 15 to 30 gals. I know most compressors are made by a few co.s'. Obviously Lowes, Home Depot, etc. do not manufacture their own comps. So when I try to find parts by their models and find they have no parts available, where do I look? Is a Husky made by Campbell-Hausfeld? I know Dewalt and Porter-Cable are owned by the same company. Are their comps. the same? Are the parts inerchangeable? Any advice?

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Bill says...

While I do not know this as fact, I surmise that the Chinese compressor manufacturing companies bid the big North American retail outlets to build their compressors for them. I also suspect that there are time limits on these contracts, and when they come up, it may not even be the same company making the same brand of air compressor.

The typical DIY air compressor is cheap. It's cheap to buy and it's made cheaply.

It is pretty hard to pay, for example, $100 for a compressor repair, when the compressor cost is $175 new.

And that is the position you are in.

You can cannibalize compressors to try and get one working, but aside, perhaps, from pressure switches, maybe tank check valves and unloader valves, there may not be much in common.

Aside from the manual page, I have no source for information about how to build the literally hundreds of types of low cost, DIY air compressors available to consumers today.

I hope you got your four compressors really inexpensively, and that you are able to get some of them working without too much more expense.

Cheers,

Bill