[Shop-talk] Air

[Mike Sinclair]

Some pictures attached.  The black thing.  I looked on the internet and 
found several parts sources, but nobody seems to carry this valve.  My 
experience with Sears is that they had many parts that were only 
available thru them.  I did take it apart and it looks fine.  Thought 
maybe it was just dirty.

Mike

On 10/1/24 7:43 AM, Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Is that the regulator knob?  Might be stuck or broken inside.  A 
> picture of what you're looking at would help - the online parts 
> diagrams I found look like one of those joke lists from the 80s that 
> had been faxed a hundred times.
>
> -- Jeff
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 7:43 PM Mike Sinclair <phoenix722 at comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>
>     I have a very old small air compressor that compresses ok, but I
>     no longer can get it to send air to the outlet.  There is a hand
>     valve between the gages that turns ok, but doesn't open the
>     valve.  It doesn't close it very well, either.  The knob turns
>     fine, and bottoms out in both directions, but nothing happens.  Is
>     it possible to buy a replacement? I'm hoping it's just a simple
>     remove and replace.
>
>     Sears Model 916-176311.
>
>     Mike
>
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