Moving on past the ignorance,.....and back to car related stuff again..
The Compressor was delivered this morning....ill say this about that..
You can go to HD.com and buy this thing. They sell it for 509.00 now. They'll charge you 75.00 to deliver it, and now like several other online resellers out there,...they charge sales tax.
When you total that all up, it comes to something like 634.00. It won't be delivered for 1-2 weeks.
Or,..you can go into the store..
They charge 509.00 for the thing as well, 79.95 to deliver it, and sales tax...only you can get it delivered the next day.
When I went into the store, I was hoping to find a refurb/returned item that could be bought for less, but not today. I go to the customer service desk, and ask the guy to total it up....it's like 650.00.
I ask the guy if there is any incentive to buy it from them instead of online, to which the guy says "nope".
I ask to speak to his manager, telling him that I was trying to do business with their local store, and if they were not gonna give me any incentive to buy it from them, I may as well go and buy the damn thing online..( I didn't tell home it was gonna take up to two weeks to get the online one)
He fidgets around and throws out "We'll deliver it for 59.00"
Whooooo!!
I stand silent for a minute,..hoping that he'd pull a rabbit out of his ass, but since no brown bunnies started hopping out of his butt,...I give in. I buy the thing.
It's slotted to show up at 11:00 AM on a pallet. While I'm waiting, I finish the cyclone center section...I'll just say that I think it still needs something now that that is done.
When the delivery guy gets there, he drops the thing in front of my garage door, has me sign his iPad, and off he goes..Now I have to get this thing off of that pallet, and into the garage by myself. The spec says that it weighs 255 pounds. I realize that that means dead lift, but it is a vertical compressor with its motor, and compressor on top..I expect that it will be very heavy once it starts to tip over onto its side. I go get a moving blanket fold it several times over and lay the thing on the ground.. I unbolt the compressor, and lay it over on its side, on top of the moving blanket.
There was a brief moment that I doubt that I'll ever get the thing back upright again by myself,..but this is me were talking about..and I'm much stronger than I look.
It's bolted in place and wired with a dryer cord so that I can just unplug my welder, and plug this thing in instead. I made a little hooky-doo to hold the plug when the welder ( or compressor) isn't the thing currently plugged in. I gotta get some sort of regulator plumbed in, as well as a filter dryer and a manifold type of airline system with drops and water traps..but that isn't gonna be necessary until I actually start to consider pointing a paint gun at things.
It is the fix for what ailed me though,....the little compressor pales by comparison:
Just shy of 3 times better across the board..3 times better capacity, 3 times more airflow...about 1/2 as noisy.