We used to use parts from Independent Components Corp, or Parts Service International, now called Ecompressed air I think.
Be careful torquing the bolts, especially the top two near the gap in the back of the crankcase. Kellogg cast iron seemed to be amazingly brittle and stripped easily.
Funny story, a few years ago when passing through Princess Auto, I saw a tag on a newly arrived compressor. It was the V-4 cast-iron pump Eaton air compressors make such a to-do about. The tag said LaPlante Compressors. Being curious, and a bit sad I guess, I Googled LaPlante, figuring it was another Whitey-wash name on a Chinese company. Sure enough, they were based in Hong Kong. I saw that they were making a Kellogg 335 knock off, which made me chuckle, since I knew Kellogg had recently disappeared when Comp-Air shut down a few of their subsidiaries awhile back. I thought, man, it doesn't take long for these copying SOB's to pick a company's bones, but right on their website they said they had been making actual Kellogg pumps for Kellogg for many years. May be bs, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that Kellogg had farmed out pump production to Hong Kong to gain a price advantage in the high-end of the market. What is funnier, is that if you Google LaPlante compressors/ Hong Kong, you will find out that the Chinese company has been dissolved, and there is now a company in the US called LaPlante Compressors. Call me paranoid, but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't just the same company with a US footprint. Not only do they make and sell the "Eaton" v-4, they now have knock-offs of the larger Saylor Beall 4500 and 9000 pumps. They still have a Kellogg 452 knock-off (?) displayed on their website, yet it doesn't show them for sale. And lo and behold, who rises back from the dead, but Kellogg itself. So we have a Chinese company, making a knock off American pump (Saylor Beall), making actual pumps for an American company (Kellogg) which are then sold as American, which then goes out of business, allowing the Chinese company (LaPlante) to sell an American design as its own (Kellogg) stating that they made the actual American product for many years for the American company, which then shuts down its operation in China, moves to the US with its western-sounding name (educated guess), opens up in Texas selling knock-offs of an American company's design (Saylor Beall) and which also (to me) appears to re-open Kellogg under its original name, selling knock-off Kellogg compressors. Although, if Kellogg sub-contracted them to make their pumps, can they be considered OEM? I guess you can only conclude Kelloggs were truly American when they had American Brake Shoe Company logos on them. Just a guess. And maybe Kellogg is the legit, original company brought back to life, but it seems awfully coincidental to me.
Maybe nobody cares anyhow? Heh. I know it bothers a lot of people when companies wave the flag while selling off-shore stuff. I can't see these pumps being cast anywhere but Hong Kong, or some other far east location.
For instance, these guys occupy the same facility where the LaPlante compressors are built:
http://www.omnigear.com/our-company
Probably decent people, but I had a different idea of Texans. Maybe I'm just un-learned.
