lawn mower class action suit

[Ken45101]

I too figure it's a "lawyer employement issue". I've seen a bunch of these with stock investments. The lawyers make out big time and the stockholders get $5 out of the company (their own money if they still hold the stock). Often the company settles just to make the nuisance go away.

Agree that the numbers were always suspect. So what? It's advertising. Who believes it anyway?

Ken

 

[ray66v]

The compressor motor ratings got ridiculous, and something had to be done. I purchased a "5HP" compressor from Sears in the mid '90s -- one of those cheep drive-you-crazy 3450 RPM oilless ones. Hey; its all I had money for. There was no HP rating on the motor, but voltage and current are listed as 120VAC at 15A (1800 Watts). Even if the motor is 100% efficient (which no motor is), that would be around 2 HP, not 5 HP. Realistically, it was probably somewhere between 1 and 1 1/2 HP. Now, I have a real 5 HP compressor (mid '70's Emglo, 2-stage 80 gallon tank) in my shop with a huge (22" tall) two stage pump, and a motor that is twice as long and almost twice the diameter as the one on the little Sears job. This motor's ratings are: 5 HP @ 1725 RPM, (single phase) 230VAC @ 22 A (approx 5000 Watts). The sears compressor put out around 4 or 5 SCFM at 90 PSI. the 5 HP Emglo, is more like 20 SCFM at 90 PSI.

This has always amazed me how people fell for this.

There's a simple test, if it doesn't need a magnetic starter, it is not a "real" 5 horse compressor.

 

[jas67]

This has always amazed me how people fell for this.

There's a simple test, if it doesn't need a magnetic starter, it is not a "real" 5 horse compressor.

I didn't fall for it. I knew that what I was buying was nowhere near 5HP. That kind of false marketing always irritated me.

 

[Bird]

I didn't fall for it. I knew that what I was buying was nowhere near 5HP. That kind of false marketing always irritated me.

I bought a Puma Model PK6060V in December, 1998. It was a fine air-compressor that saw a great deal of use, but at that time it was labelled as 6 hp and now I see they label it as 3 hp. But at least the salesman was honest. He said, "We call it an imitation 6 hp, while over here I can show you one of our real 5 hp compressors." Of course, the real 5 hp motor was 2 or 3 times as big as the imitation 6 hp, too. So, yep, I'd like for them to be honest, but at least I knew what I was getting and was very happy with it.

 

[Ken45101]

You can't plug anything bigger than a real 2 hp motor into a typical wall outlet. Actually I don't think even a 2 hp motor would work off of a normal wall outlet. 2 hp takes about 2000 watts of power. 115v x 15 amps is 1725 watts. Startup surge on an electric motor is even higher.

Ken

 

[Bird]

You can't plug anything bigger than a real 2 hp motor into a typical wall outlet. Actually I don't think even a 2 hp motor would work off of a normal wall outlet. 2 hp takes about 2000 watts of power. 115v x 15 amps is 1725 watts. Startup surge on an electric motor is even higher.

Ken

Godo point, Ken. My current compressor, rated at 1.8 running hp on 120 volt is plugged into a wall outlet on a 20 amp breaker instead of 15 amp.

 

[SARG]

Not that I'm greedy but I turned in my 4 lawn tractors and 5 push mowers.

Class action suits are a giggle .......over twenty years ago I went through about three hours of xrays and lung capacity tests for a mesothelioma suit because of work place exposure to asbestos ...... I realized it was mostly a scam that the major law firm came up with .......... but over the years I have netted well over thirty thousand tax free dollars.

 

[beenthere]

Anybody else seen anything on this class action suite relating to advertised hp ratings in a bunch of riding mowers and walk behinds under 30hp? Looks like the claim is mfg's mis-represented and overstated the hp of their lawn mower engines, sounds like they are all denying but are settling to the tune of 65 million total.

This is pathetic, and a perfect reason for tort reform.
The lawyers will get the biggest share of the settlement, and the owners will get but a pittance.
However, the future buyers will pay for the entire 65 mil.

It is WRONG, just plain WRONG.

But one is almost coerced into going along, just to get some advance money when we need to pay a higher price for the new products we buy. Their is no free lunch.

This is a justifiable reason for the justice dept. to step in and pull the plug on these lawyer crooks. Let them work a legitimate job for their lunch.

 

[Ken45101]

Class action suits are a giggle

Until you realize that all of us are paying for the lawyer's ransom in higher prices and it encourages American companies to go out of business.

 

[turbo36]

I can't believe some of the replies to this, face the facts guys, we were lied to and cheated when we bought our mowers. For some reason this has turned into a " well I'd rather be cheated by a manufacturer then a lawyer. Come on, you got cheated suckers!:confused2:

All those that think this suit wrong answer me this simple question;
If the local gas station was cheating you by overstating the octane rating or by overstating the gallons you were buying would that be all right by you?


Ok, one more question ( i can't stop):laughing:
What if you go in for chemo treatments and the Doctor givers you less then the prescribed dose, but tells you it was the prescribed dose, would that be all right?