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Eaton 5 horsepower 3 cyl 2-stg air compressor pump
*~Eaton Compressor Fabrication~*
The reason this pump is so tough, is it is a 3-Cylinder, or Y, design. Each cylinder is individually cooled by the air or fan built into the flywheel. This is one of the coolest running pumps you will find because each cylinder gets air individually into the flywheel fan. With most inline compressors, or 2 cylinder (1 piston behind the other), they run hotter in certain applications because they do not cool as well as a 3 cylinder design. This pump DOES NOT have reed valves! It has concentric ring valve design. Concentric ring valves have been around for over 150 years. We have not gone away from this design because it will last for many, many years to come. If you look at the competition, they all offer reed valves or finger valves, but both are the same thing, just called different by some manufacturers. No matter what they are called, reed valves are a cheap design. With our unit, if you want to clean your valves, intake, or exhaust, you can take the valves out of the cylinder head by unscrewing the valve retainer and just pull the valve right of the head to inspect it.
This pump is all cast iron. When we say ALL CAST IRON, (not aluminum) that is what we mean. It has solid cast iron cylinder, cylinder heads, crankcase, flywheel, crank, and forged steel connecting rods ? not aluminum! 99% of the pumps you see on the market today have aluminum rods. This style rod does not come close to a forged steel rod. I have seen many compressors over the 31 years of building compressors, and many of them break ? aluminum rods. However, I have NEVER seen a steel connecting rod fail in one of our pumps. The forged steel connecting rods are a $120.00 option included on our pump. These rods also have a replaceable bearing on the crank journal and on the wrist pin journal. This is what most of the competition do not have. They have aluminum throw away- - no insert bearing in the rod journals.
