Compressor

As most of you know we bought a new compressor and had it shipped to St.Martin, and after 83 hours of use it decided not to work....?? Very annoying.

So we contacted the manufacturer and after much discussion they decided not to back thier 12 month full parts and labor warranty - even more annoying !

So I decided to take it apart myself and instantly found the fault, the high pressure piston had completely disintegrated and therefore we couldn't produce any high pressure air.

Luckily a fellow Brit by the name of Richard Lomas comes to the Ilsand once a year, as he has a house on St.Martin and just so happened to be here this week.
Richard is just like me, very hands on and can repair just about anything, however he specialises in Compressors.

I ordered the new part from the states, had it flown in by Fedex and we fitted it yesterday.

So far its running like a dream and we are filling tanks really fast - awesome!!

Conclusion as to why it went wrong in the first place:
Richard seems to think the same as me, the compressor had a problem and the manufacturer didn't want to repair it or couldn't find the fault and sent it to me !! Nice eh?

On a lighter note, we have two engines for the new boat in Guadeloupe they are 3 years old and have around 300 hours on them but are like new.
The boat will arrive in late August and we will have two new, fast and fuel efficient engines to fit onto it.

More good news..... I have just been offered the chance to attend a Mercury Engine Training school in September where I will be the 4th certified Mercury Outboard Engineer in St.Martin.
This is perfect as I will be able to diagnose faults by connecting my laptop to the engines computer and also save us alot of time and money.
To be able to attend this course one must be nominated by an Authorised Mercury Dealer as this isn't open to the general Public. So.. many thanks to Steffan at Madco for arranging this for me.

Sally is out teaching an Open water course this afternoon and is also upgrading the wesbite, if any of you computer guru's out there have any ideas please let Sally know.

The weather here has been really bad the last few days, we had two tropical waves pass over us, but we have still been diving our local reefs and seeing lots of Turtles.

Thanks for reading the blog,

Chris.