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Just out in the shop media blasting a carb when the electric motor on my air compressor exploded...LITERALLY exploded....LOUD "pop", sparks, smoke, the whole works.

I have a call in to Eaton Compressor to get a repair tech out here a.s.a.p., but until then I'm dead in the water.

Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

(posted this here instead of my forum since mine gets so little traffic, wanted to make sure people see this)

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Oh man...sorry to hear that.

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Hang in there Eric ...

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Same thing happened to me a few years ago Eric - ugh!

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Probably my carb [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Hope things get back on track...keep the faith [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

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Finally heard back from Eaton today...conversation didn't go very well (I'll leave it at that) but a tech is supposed to be out tomorrow morning to warranty the motor--but I'm on the hook for hourly rate on labor PLUS mileage...

Not really amused with this situation at this point..hoping I'll have an operational compressor again by tomorrow afternoon. Suffice it to say I will be going elsewhere when (not &quot;if&quot;, but &quot;when&quot;) this thing sh*ts the bed again.

As that old saying goes...

<span style="font-style: italic">&quot;God put me here on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I can never die.&quot;</span> [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img]

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[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img]
Eric,

Good to have the <span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 17pt">Humor </span></span>in crappy events like these.

Dicky [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

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Maybe just spec out another electric motor and replace it yourself ?

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It's already done, the tech just left.

So much for &quot;warranty&quot;. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Me and electricity don't get along real well, so I'm not too keen on getting into stuff that wires into a structure, esp. something that runs on 220.

At any rate, it's up and running again...for how long this time, who knows.....

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Good News!