A tyre inflator by any other name serves its purpose just the same!
Walking out of your house on a cold frosty morning, and having to scrape the windscreen is not funny. Freezing fingertips despite thermal gloves is no pleasant experience. Realising that someone has let your tyres down is even worse. The world has turned against you. Now, you have to somehow get the tyre inflated without doing any more damage to the tyre itself! Wouldn’t it be great to have your own portable compressor unit to use your very own tyre inflator at your convenience?
One of the most frustrating experiences is finding that you don’t have a 20p piece when you have pulled up to the tyre inflator in a roadside garage. Then you queue behind the people paying for their petrol, finally get your 20p from the cashier only to find that you need another because your 2 minutes of usage has been wasted on your first tyre whilst you struggled to connect to the valve. Maybe not too drastic a thing but completely avoidable if you have your own tyre inflator.
Take care when choosing, you need to differentiate between red (closed ended connectors) and black (open ended connectors) and consider the length of the stem so you get the right one for your needs. Check out Accura-check types and MK3 PCLs on this page and once you have worked out your needs, your own tyre inflator in your own garage will serve you well.
It may be that during December your thoughts are far from the kind of compressed air fittings that you may need for the coming months. If your financial year runs according to the calendar you may be preoccupied by year – end and year-ahead figures. The talk of bad weather may concern you even more, you may worry whether the much discussed return of last year’s snow may stop or delay work on external sites. Indeed you may just be more concerned with the Christmas Party you need to plan for hundreds of staff!
As the days are nearing their shortest and the air is damp with rainfall compressed air fittings are probably the last things on earth that you want to think about. However just for sense’s sake we would like to remind you of the clear and incontrovertible role they play in keeping your compressed air equipment in full working order and your work schedule consistently up to date. Now is the time to do a full health check on your compressed air units and make sure your compressed air fittings are still doing the job they should be. Whilst you compile budgets, or set your strategy for the new year, or buy in the alcohol for the Christmas bash, you may just do it with an easier mind.
Every piece of compressed air equipment has to be right for the job, but often it is hard to convince others that this is so.
Can you imagine a deep sea diver plunging down to the sea bed with hundreds of feet of ocean above him and not having the right equipment? No, neither can we. So much can happen; drowning of course, suffocation maybe, the ‘bends’, going off course, losing the ship – so many life threatening things can happen, it is unthinkable that equipment would not be absolutely top notch. No diver would think twice that it is a matter of trust that the equipment is all there, maintained properly and the best for the job. Compressed air equipment has to be similarly up to the job in hand.
Imagine a parachutist leaping from a plane and not having the correct equipment. Well we can’t, so we are sure you can’t either. Not many sky divers have survived the parachute failing to open, and those who have lived to tell the tale, usually won’t risk it again. Most will tell you that they have to trust their equipment and once that is lost then there will be no further skydiving for them! And we don’t blame them. Compressed air equipment must similarly be trustworthy.
Given the millions of jobs that compressed air equipment fulfils, and most of them absolutely crucial to something whether it be the engineering world, medical laboratory testing or production line efficiency, then that equipment must be perfectly made and perfectly maintained, and the best for the job.
Screw compressors are fantastic for getting the job done with speed, efficiency and with many other qualities besides: safe, low on noise, economical to run, reliable and robust with high output. For equipment with, let’s face it, quite a strange name, screw compressors are amazingly the most dependable and low maintenance of air compressors.
You couldn’t go wrong with a screw compressor in an environment needing near silence such as a huge industrial plant with serious health and safety concerns for its workforce and with its strong continuous pressure its performance matches high yield scenarios of such large-scale settings.
It is odd to talk about continuous pressure as being a positive thing. We are so used to feeling stressed by pressure in our lives that we do not think about the good things to arise from it. Psychological and emotional pressures are hard to cope with and we do what we can to find space and relaxation when we experience these things. If we experienced continuous pressure in our daily lives we would probably end up with the doctor. Not so where screw compressors are concerned; these great streamlined work horses of our technologically modern industrial world will outperform many others and can be compact, low maintenance and easy to install. They are a must for industrial workplaces.
At this time of year it isn’t just a compressor service that we are thinking of. As Christmas comes closer and the first snowy layers have signalled the oncoming cold season we know that we will be reliant on good service from all quarters! Let us keep our fingers crossed that no more households will be without electricity or gas – recent news of the Scottish power crisis means many of us are nervously considering whether we should bring in stocks of candles, and heating and cooking alternatives. Christmas without Turkey is not the Christmas most of us imagine. Let us also hope that the postal service stays operative and delivers our Christmas cards and parcels to our families and friends. Good service is something we need at all times but at Christmas time it is all the more crucial. Our compressor service just might be a Godsend for your business at this time of year!
What if we don’t get the service we need whilst we are Christmas shopping? If restaurants don’t open for service, how will we have a celebratory New Year’s Eve? What will you do if your air compressor packs up? Business will definitely not be “as usual”. A compressor service is one of the best ways to ensure your air compressor is up to the challenges of the work you ask of it. Whether it is a large unit or a small portable compressor for the odd outside job, a proper service will give you peace of mind and leave you free to wish peace and good will to everybody!
A compressor service is always a good thing. It helps you maintain your air compressors performance just as you would maintain your car’s performance or that of your central heating through a service of both. Such good management helps prevent breakdown, costly repairs and eventually lost of customers.
This kind of service that helps businesses run more effectively and cheaply is just the kind of service that we want. Yet there are still many who still are not convinced of the merits of servicing, and do not consider it worth budgeting for an annual service of whatever piece of equipment it is for, preferring to wait until something goes wrong before asking for help.
We have service deeply embedded in our culture, as many cultures do: service to mankind – and of course womankind, service to the elderly, service in battle, service to your profession or vocation. Those of us who are religious and exercise our faith by attending services to worship a particular God, also experience service of another kind. Despite their difference to a maintenance service, such as the compressor service we are talking about, there is a useful equation to be drawn by aligning all the aforementioned services. The word “service” comes from the Latin word “officium” which means duty, and all services stem from duty: to your country, to God, to good performance, to your company, so it’s worth taking note that a compressor service is for the overall good health of your compressor.
Is there any time of year that is better than another for an air compressor supplier? Maybe, and then, again, maybe not. Year in and year out an air compressor supplier sells air compressors; but surely this does not occur evenly throughout the year. There must be peaks and troughs to the sales figures.
Much could be said for the warmer months of spring and summer when more outdoor and off-site working can be planned and carried out; a time for increasing one’s stock of compressor tools and parts. On the other hand autumn and winter, can bring compressor buyers through the door, as it is a time for inspecting equipment to see if it can last to the end of the year, and prompting the belief that it is time to invest in new.
Well now that the New Year is well underway, we may as well look at what this time can bring us. Reflections of the year just gone and the year to come will be occupying most of us, and that will include the air compressor supplier. Alongside many other businesses, the air compressor supplier will be looking towards an inventory of equipment and stock and will be planning the budget for the year ahead. Ensuring good quality stock and finding new custom whilst maintaining existing clients will be paramount issues. An air compressor supplier just may be looking to ensure their businesses keep turning in which case now may be the time to replace, or at least consider replacing, your air compressors.
The early New Year window is the one which many canny workshop managers keep their eye on. Just before the end of the financial year and many suppliers have to get rid of old stock and bring in the new, in which case look out for a bargain that you may not necessarily see as the year progresses. What have you to lose?
We wonder how far the compression industry would go in developing compressor accessories to enhance the performance of its compressor equipment.
As we wait for the next James Bond to hit the silver screen, we are told that this 50th Anniversary James Bond outing known as “Skyfall” is in the making and that it will more than ever prove its technological credentials. Unlike compressor accessories, the gadgets and gizmos in the films have not had to be proven in real life. Air compressors generally need accessories to have a real and positive effect whatever it looks like. In the movies, they only need impress the imagination.
If we look fondly back at the films that have gone before, from the very first Dr No to the one preceding this upcoming extravaganza, “Quantum of Solace”, then we should thoroughly enjoy the newbie. James Bond has moved through Sean Connery, some say the greatest ever Bond and who has never really been replaced, to finally Daniel Craig, not visualised as Bond in the public eye at first but presenting a more realistic and earthy version of the character then we have seen hitherto. However many Bonds there have been, there is also an absolute multitude of production accessories to delight and thrill audiences: lasers emitting pure gold, exploding cigarettes, cars with back-shields and oil sprays to foil those in the chase, flying machines, remote controls for car driving, techniques to make metal objects invisible, ice hotels, suitcases with disguising heavy artillery and so much more.
The compressor accessories that we sell are simpler things, than in the Bond world, and give real benefit to the air compressors they serve. Less fancy and they won’t in themselves save the world from evil but they do give good service and there is a real role for them, and yes a lot of work has gone into developing them to enhance performance. Have a look on this web site and see for yourself.
“All for the want of a horseshoe nail” ends the old English proverb. As children we learned this funny old song which tells us of a horseshoe that has no nail which renders the horse unable to walk, then a rider unable to ride, then a battle unable to be fought and eventually a kingdom lost forever, simply because a blacksmith did not put the right nails into the poor old nag’s shoe. This demonstration of how things are interlinked is salutary, really, and tailor made for the compressed air industry and for compressed air equipment. It means that eventually from a small incident a large catastrophe can occur; or if you like – from another more positive perspective – eventually from a small acorn a mighty oak will grow! There are many examples of this chain linking of many causes and effects all leading onto to greater and greater outcomes negative or positive. Well a similar rhyme could be phrased aboutcompressed air equipment.
For the want of the right components, parts, fitting or adaptors your compressed air equipment, will eventually fail. Whether it be screw compressor, dental compressor, silent compressor, petrol compressor, or portable compressor, or all the tools that fit, or all the hose that enables operation, all the equipment is linked and depends on all the other components.
Screw compressors are as reliable for their high and consistent impact as for their ability to deal with large scale output for manufacturing and industry. There is little to compare their regularity of performance with as they really are the Rolls Royce of air compressors except perhaps the other reliable and consistent, but not manmade, natural element of time and how it effects the English seasons.
The seasonal nature of British weather is as guaranteed as the great output of screw compressors.
As fog and damp descend every day, and the night begins at 4.30 in the afternoon, we note these signs of winter and how fast they have arrived on our doorstep, and marvel at how reminiscent it is of almost every year that has passed in Britain since time itself began. Well this certainty is matched by screw compressors every day on production lines, and in industrial plants. Screw compressors simply cannot be bettered for such large scale work; and like death and taxes, the oncoming winter is a regular feature of life in the UK and we can’t knock it. Cold though it is, it is as real as the industrial revolution. Just as many of us have said “Wow this year has sped by”, or “Gosh what has happened to this year?” as have appreciated the results of these big industrial helpmates when making aeroplane components, or repeatedly hammering metal in the heat of a furnace.
Screw compressors have class and quality embedded in their design and we should know, we have supplied them for many happy clients for many years.
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