Hi Joel,
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Fwiw, I ended up getting the Anest Iwata compressor, . I got the 5hp 60 gallon one from eBay for a super good price. They are about 10k new but you can find them used fairly easily. I got a number for a local Anest Iwata sales rep and he spent a good about of time telling me about the unit, even after I told him I was looking at a used one off of eBay. The unit I got had only 217 hours on it and the rep said that was hardly broken in. They use basically the same scroll technology that the Eastwoods use but the Anest Iwata's are oil free. My crude understanding is that the Eastwood's use oil to make up for scroll head not being manufactured to as tight of tolerances as the more industrial oil free units. Either way the scroll compressors are quite and don't have the need to run continuously to get longer life spans like the screw compressors do. I feel I got lucky finding the deal on eBay, otherwise I would have gotten the Eastwood.
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I should mention that I did have to clean out the tank, it had a surprising amount of rusty gunk build up clogging the drain. With only 217 hours, I'm guessing they didn't have the automatic drain purge plugged in, it had one and it works fine. Not sure but everything else was squeaky clean.
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Lastly, it is pleasantly quiet but the drain purge still scares the crap out of me when it kicks in.
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Bruce
Bruce Gordon