Why RIX compressor?

[iain/hsm]

I think it would make for a brilliant boat compressor since it's orientation agnostic

Orientation Agnostic? It's a compressor dude not a pronoun.
Heck I just know this is going to get all wrong to continue on this idea.

Reminds me of a Canadian Girl I dated when I worked as a diver for Sub Sea International.
I think knowing that I was Scottish she brought with her a big bottle of Canadian Maple Syrup
on our first date and I totally got the wrong idea as to what she wanted to do with it.

Apparently you pour it over pancakes.

 

[nadwidny]

Not sure what business you were in, but there are no less than a dozen Rixes within a 4hr radius of me that I know of, and I'm sure I don't know about all of them.... Most of them were purchased in the late 90's/early 00's from US Government Surplus and are owned by people that have an aversion to dive shops....

Air testing for scuba shops, fire departments, oil field safety companies. I saw around 1000 tests per year from high pressure breathing air compressors. Not a Rix amongst them.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

Air testing for scuba shops, fire departments, oil field safety companies. I saw around 1000 tests per year from high pressure breathing air compressors. Not a Rix amongst them.

Would there be a point of testing if it doesn't use oil?

I personally don't test. I make sure it's running within spec based off of interstate gauges and track filter hours. Change filters when required.

 

[nadwidny]

Would there be a point of testing if it doesn't use oil?

I personally don't test. I make sure it's running within spec based off of interstate gauges and track filter hours. Change filters when required.

Oil mist is never a concern unless someone is running a real junker of a compressor. The reason for testing is that It's a mandate from the various provincial Occupational Health authorities and their big worry is CO. If I ran my compressor in an urban environment that would be something I would have to look at. I live in a rural area so usually I don't test the air off my compressor either unless I need to for regulatory reasons.

In Canada moisture is also a big concern especially for those fire departments that have to work in -30 or -40 temps.

 

[tbone1004]

Air testing for scuba shops, fire departments, oil field safety companies. I saw around 1000 tests per year from high pressure breathing air compressors. Not a Rix amongst them.

that's actually not all that surprising. The Rixes you see in discussion here weren't big enough for the fire departments, scuba shops have historically trended to buying the retired FD compressors and even then the Rix wasn't big enough for them, and the oil field guys would have been using less expensive pumps. The Rixes are really great if you have to use them on bouncy/tilty objects so they're ideal for mounting on boats because you can mount them in any orientation and they really don't care about bouncing around so long as the water traps don't go upside down.
The oil fields could have been using some of the monster Rix compressors for CNG but those aren't the ones that are talked about on here.
Similarly to your argument about never seeing them, with probably exception to the K14, the majority of compressors you worked on probably aren't talked about on here because they're too large for most people to want in their house....

 

[iain/hsm]

Air testing for scuba shops, fire departments, oil field safety companies. I saw around 1000 tests per year from high pressure breathing air compressors. Not a Rix amongst them.

Out of the 1000's of tests you undertook can you please publish here just a single one of them (at random) for the purpose of illustration and explanation.

Further if you could also publish a copy of any test result from either a Haskel or Hydraulic International or Masterline as mentioned in the original OP post. This again would be useful to the forum members for explanation. Thanks in anticipation.

 

[grf88]

I see people struggle with RIX every day here because it is more like a military and industrial-oriented company, and they don't care much about the scuba market. Like why not just buy something else??

Maybe you could point me to some of the posts outlining problems. For me I like the idea that the compressor cannot create bad air meaning I really have no worries if I make sure that the input air is good. I would hazard a guess that nobody has died from CO produced by a RIX compressor something that cannot be said of oil lubricated ones.

 

[nadwidny]

Out of the 1000's of tests you undertook can you please publish here just a single one of them (at random) for the purpose of illustration and explanation.

Further if you could also publish a copy of any test result from either a Haskel or Hydraulic International or Masterline as mentioned in the original OP post. This again would be useful to the forum members for explanation. Thanks in anticipation.

I don't work there anymore so I don't have access to that info..

We didn't test boosters. As I said we tested the air from breathing air compressors.

 

[nadwidny]

that's actually not all that surprising. The Rixes you see in discussion here weren't big enough for the fire departments, scuba shops have historically trended to buying the retired FD compressors and even then the Rix wasn't big enough for them, and the oil field guys would have been using less expensive pumps. The Rixes are really great if you have to use them on bouncy/tilty objects so they're ideal for mounting on boats because you can mount them in any orientation and they really don't care about bouncing around so long as the water traps don't go upside down.
The oil fields could have been using some of the monster Rix compressors for CNG but those aren't the ones that are talked about on here.
Similarly to your argument about never seeing them, with probably exception to the K14, the majority of compressors you worked on probably aren't talked about on here because they're too large for most people to want in their house..

The oil field guys seemed to use mostly the same as the fire departments as the end user was pretty much on the same gear; Scott air paks or the equivalent.

Maybe I didn't see any Rix's because they aren't readily available up there. Going by this thread I get the impression that a lot of the ones in public use in the US are old military units. The military units that I saw were Jordairs (Bauers).

 

[iain/hsm]

The military units that I saw were Jordairs (Bauers).

Again I'm not surprised and there is a simple reason for this.

The National Standard of Canada under the Compressed Breathing Air and Systems (CAN/CSA-Z180. Prepared by the Canadian Standards Association and approved by the Standards Council of Canada have on the Technical Committee on Compressed Breathing Air & Systems have only one single compressor manufacturer on the standards committee who wrote the requirement.

Guess who? Jordair Compressors Incorporated of Bititish Columbia no less.

Quote: "Jordair Compressors Inc. is a proudly Canadian owned and operated industrial compressor manufacturer, supplying over 6000 medium & high pressure compressor systems to a variety of Canadian and International customers since beginning production in 1973."

Jordair further states that:
"We are the exclusive Bauer representative for Canada and are pleased to provide Bauer products across a wide segment of the air and gas medium and high pressure markets.
Jordair's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Delta, BC and our Calgary and Montreal sales reps provide ongoing support to our customers and dealers."

Any wonder that's all you see is Bauer. The standard is blatantly written around the Bauer compressor any more than who else can offer the specific Securus Filter.

Your screwed conned and controlled in equal measure. You have no other option but comply.