Jimmer
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As for the exchange rate affecting the price of the imported compressors, does this imply that Mako's that are made in the USA (I believe) are likely to become the most competitively priced?
Compressor price goes up!
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I'm pretty sure Makos use a Bauer pump soooooooo... They are not immune.
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I'm fairly sure that Mako repackages the Compair block. I heard that Mako is now part of or owned by that company.
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Pesky's right. Mako has never really been a truly "American" company in that they have bought their compressors from several companies over the years. When they were at their best, they used the Bauer blocks. I am not sure but have been told that they are using Bristol now. They do a beautiful job of re-packaging, though!
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If I'm beating this to death, say so, heh. The ad below for the Mako Compact series actually depict the Olmeva Aerosub units from Italy. The large blocks may be Compair or even Bristol (?). Don't know, it's hard to keep up with this stuff.
MAKO - Dive - Compact 6
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/co...ystems/224487-olmeva-aerosub-compressors.html
I would expect that exchange rates would increase the cost of this import.
MAKO - Dive - Compact 6
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/co...ystems/224487-olmeva-aerosub-compressors.html
I would expect that exchange rates would increase the cost of this import.
Jimmer
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Well that makes sense then. For some reason I had it in my head that Compair also made blocks in the USA.
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The newsletter was refferring to our compresssor oil prices not the compressors.....
In other news the prices of the COMPRESSORS has been hit hard by the Euro also and those prices went up. We went about 3 years with no price increases, we kept absorbing the Euro but then it has really taken a beating lately and we were forced to raise those prices.
In other news the prices of the COMPRESSORS has been hit hard by the Euro also and those prices went up. We went about 3 years with no price increases, we kept absorbing the Euro but then it has really taken a beating lately and we were forced to raise those prices.
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Thanks to a recent outrageous oil price and an inflation of consumers' price, the scuba and compressor price seem to go up soon
Once one company jacks up the price, it used to affect to other competitors.
Check out this for Alkin Compressor deal. I am not affiliated with Alkin at all...:mooner:
The "good" part about all this is that it's no longer cheaper to ship iron ore from "somewhere far away", turn it into steel "somewhere else far away" and ship it to the US. So the US steel mills are looking like they might start reopening and making jobs.
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