So why isn't it? The regulations aren't onerous for compressed air.
Air tools at Aldi
Feb 21, 2009
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AFAIR the cost of inspection by a *competent* person equated to the value of the equipment.
Obviously I do check that the system operates within designed safe working pressure limits and do not interfere with installed relief valves. However, I am not competent to inspect the interior.
regards
Talk to your local model engineers, and whoever does boiler inspection for model steam engines. It's the same water-pump rig to do a static hydraulic test on it and provided that you don't just look in Yellow Pages for the pneumatic equivalent of Dyno-Rod, the inspection cost is (IMHE) reasonable. By "reasonable" I mean "I can't even remember, it was that unmemorable".
(I can tell you to the penny what a new switch for the electric door cost!)
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that the Power Craft range of tools at Aldi are serviced etc at Omega Wolf as their address is on every box, and look identical to Wolf products (re-badged??). Therefore, the compressor at Aldi is identical to the Wolf one, apart from the colour etc:
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AND is made in the UK. So I wonder if the Power Craft on is also made in the UK. Their service/parts and ordering are all from Notts. Good thing about Wolf is that most of their products appear to be MADE IN BRITAIN !!!!! (according to their paper catalogue). Cheers Dave
"The Wolf Sioux II Air Compressor is hand built by our expertly trained engineers here in Great Britain"
Call me an old cynic, but I tend to expect that means they bolt the compressor assembly and wheels to the tank when it gets off the boat from elsewhere.
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