I don’t always get it right… part of the human factor; I apologize for using terms like “cheap“ or “expensive” as they are quite subjective and certainly not “exact” terminology.
My H.P. background comes from 21 years in the Navy EOD Diving Community. I am not a mechanical engineer. But I am, from spending all those years around H.P. systems very safety conscious.
One of the things that we used to do in the Navy involved investigations after equipment failures, especially if people were hurt. The goal wasn’t to place blame, rather it was to first create awareness and then to sort through the problems leading to the failures; because failures cost time and money. In this case, as stated, I became aware of three guns all costing greater than $1000.00 having their (internals) damaged by one common factor… the same “cheap” newly acquired compressor bought on Amazon. Do I know the brand name and price they paid for this compressor? Not yet; hoping to learn that soon. Cost? <$500.00? Probably? dunno.
What I do know, is that for those of us who truly enjoy PCP’s, nothing could be worse than spending our hard earned money on an expensive (or inexpensive) PCP only to have it ruined in a very short time because of a compressor, regardless if it’s cheap or expensive Compressor. Even worse is when the damage is significant enough to void the warranties on our brand new PCP.
My two objectives when I started this thread was not to declare that the sky is falling, or compressor snobbery, rather it’s to promote an awareness that a potential issue exists which may cost my fellow Airgunners a lot of money and heartache. Hopefully that awareness will get people to study and evaluate their own particular equipment and support systems. The second objective is to get other people to share their experiences and knowledge around this topic…, knowledge is power!
I see both of these objectives being met, albeit sideways.
We can and should ALL do better ALL the time… but we are, after all, humans.
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