Randy has a thread below chronicling his spray gun problems & saying he should have stood in bed.  He jinxed me with that.  Hadda be.   I needed to use my air brush Wed. for a small spot repair.  Went out to the "rough" shop & turned on the compressor.
Back down to the finish shop in basement - prepare air brush with clear lacquer. 
Plug in hose - spray.  Er, make that TRY to spray.  
Press button - no ssssssssssssssssssssss
Check pressure guage on small tank in lower shop - nada
Back out to compressor -guages show LOTS of air.
Hmmmmmm - must have frozen H2O in the line to the basement tank!
Heat gun on lower places of 50 ft hose to basement.  Nada.
Pull hose from compressor, remove two foot extension end and pull hose through foundation to basement shop to thaw.
Wait two hours.
No H2O running out of hose end.
Check small, insignificant two foot section of hose that was verticle so couldn't be the problem.
Found problem. - 1/4" coupling tube was blocked with gunk, not frozen H2O. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
Repair tubing, put everything back together.
Spray lacquer - air brush goes sssssssssssssss and material sprays.
Half a day shot, and they called me a troubleshooter for several decades??
Oh well, at least there wasn't a water problem in the line.
(It still hadda be Randy's fault for posting that!)
Moral of the story, weeeeeeelll - always, that is ALWAYS remember what the word assumes breaks down to!
Blessings,

Will

Not getting the right part for a top name brand is one of the most frustrating things a guy can run into.  The only thing more frustrating is to have a working unit that needs a small part and they stopped making it two months ago!  (Like the batteries in my cordless drill, maybe?)
I bought a couple of cells at Radio Shack & repaired the beast myself, but they don't hold the charge as long.  At least it works, kinda.
Have a wonderful Christmas Randy, and all the rest of you as well!!!!
Blessings,
Will

Randy, my friend, you just licve in the wrong part of the country!   We would have had youcompressor working with in a matter of hours, or less.  Tubing benders, flaring tool, some compression fittings, a pressure switch (rated about the same but probably a different band altogether) some more fittings and it might have all looked rather *Rube Goldberg*, but it would work, and safely, for a LONG time!

You just have to grow up poor around poor people who knew how to fix things because they couldn't afford to replace it.   I have a lot of stuff that is much older than I am that still works.... many times repaired, probably.

Let me tell you sometime how I had to hand make a timing pointer for my 427 Ford engine.  Couldn't tell it from a factory part!

Randy,
It may be "just your nature" but it's a great way to survive!  when I think of the depression and the way those folks had to get through I simply have a hard time throwing something away that maybe I can fix.
If my cars don't go at least to six digits on the odometer I figure I found a lemon!
You have a great Christmas!
Will

Randy,
It may be "just your nature" but it's a great way to survive!  when I think of the depression and the way those folks had to get through I simply have a hard time throwing something away that maybe I can fix.
If my cars don't go at least to six digits on the odometer I figure I found a lemon!
You have a great Christmas!
Will

Brother Will,

I think my problem is that my Paternal Grandparents raised me.   He raised his *first* family through the depression, then I came along.......... needless to say, Grandad didn't change just because I was there!  In reality, my first *toys* were really tools!  wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers, etc..