Airtex used to be the US distributor for Alkin compressors. Both times I needed some miniscule part for my W-31 I would call up....Nice folks there...Told me the part was on the way....A week later I call and they forgot.....Part is on it's way.....Week later and I'm pissed and finally the part shows up....Nice people though....THEN more than a year later I get a call saying they needed me to pay for said miniscule parts....I said that I had given a credit card when I ordered....Was told I needed to prove TO THEM that I had paid. Told them to go pound sand.
Airtex supposedly according to them copied several Alkin compressors with some good improvements to them. What turned me off was when I was talking with them at DEMA about the improvements to THEIR copy of the Alkin W-31 all of a sudden my original Alkin W-31 is crap and is going to kill someone...Sound familiar to anyone....And more than a hundred hours later my W-31 purrs like a kitten.
This is just MY experience with them but Airtex and I won't be having any future experiences....
Alkin comes out of NJ now and the reps at DEMA were great to talk to. Told me they had every part I could ever need for my W-31 and would be glad to help out.