[AT] Help with Ingersoll compressor

[Ken Knierim]

Cecil,
    As a manufacturer who designs, builds and supports complex equipment,
putting together a manual most people will throw away isn't always a paying
use of resources either... and the lack of manual-reading is directly
related to people thinking they know everything (on target with your
comments about parts-changers coming out of school). A lot of people are
crashing through their lives so fast they don't take the time needed to
learn to do the job right. Why read a map or manual when google knows all?
Or they'll call in for support after the warranty period has expired, want
answers without wanting to pay for them, and won't crack the manual.
    We're working a different strategy on some of our newer stuff... we're
putting some of the PDF's on our website to let the webcrawlers pick them
up so folks CAN find and get access to the manuals when they finally decide
they need them. I wouldn't really expect a company that's been bought and
sold to have a lot of older manuals online but I've had good luck finding
home-scanned versions by looking for the product name and putting manual
and a .pdf in the search criterion. Not sure it'll help, but might be worth
a shot.

Hope this helps,

Ken in AZ

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> I need some help with the Gyro Flo Vane compressor I bought last week to
> sandblast and clean out my old baler.  I thought one of you guys had
> some experience with these..  The pressure is too high and it is bowing
> the relief valve.  It runs as high as 185-190 psi. Ingersoll Gyro Flo
> was bought by Doosan in NC in 2007..    A lot of information is just non
> existent and none of the "experts online" can give any real help.   Most
> of these online "experts just say that the unit is not worth repairing
> and to buy a new one.    I could not even afford a 10 year old one with
> 1/2 the output of this one!!!    There is just no diagnosis ability
> anymore.   The mechanics that are coming out of the trade schools have
> no idea how to repair anything.  They just change parts.   The
> manufacturers don't give out service literature anymore, they get a
> fortune for it, so ther is not a lot floating around out there.  I blame
> a lot of this B.S. on plain old GREED, and the other on not having high
> school shop classes anymore.
>
> On another note, we now have to pay for all those "smart" innovations on
> the new cars and trucks due to the new drivers not paying attention to
> their driving, their smartphone needs to be looked at 59 minutes an
> hour.  Maybe just maybe if we put Drivers education back in the high
> schools, the new drivers would have some idea how to safely drive...
> If someone was not paying attention back when we were driving in H.S.
> the "coach" would stomp on the brake ( in a safe area) and your nose
> would hit the steering wheel!!  He then would tell the driver and the
> rest of the passengers what would have happened if the driver had
> continued...
>
> Now they drive like they are playing a video game....
>
> Rant off...   I am just so frustrated with trying to get an operating
> compressor so I can go back to work.   The Sullair and the Leroi both
> need that blasted Ford 140 OHC engine overhauled.
> My problem now is I don't have budget, help, time, and physical ability
> to get things done now...
>
> Cecil in OKla
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