[TheForge] compressor setup

Mon Jan 14 18:29:04 2002

http://www.tptools.com/StaticText/piping_diagram.pdf
found this on the tiptools site, good info

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Vida" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] compressor setup


> 
> 
> Jeff Harding wrote:
> 
> >    If you are going to run lines around the shop for various
> > disconnects and devices, run the line in the largest pipe you can
> > afford. 
> 
> I strongly agree with this.
> 
> > I've seen some plastic installations that cut the cost down,
> > I'm just not keen on plastic.
> 
> Don't usse plastic.  If it fails, the compressor will run
> perpetually if you have no ball cock to shut flow from the
> tank to the lines.  Running nonstop for several hours, the
> compressor will eat itself alive; time for a new one.
> 
> Make sure you have a ball cock between the ballast (the tank)
> and the lines to the world.
> 
> IF you  run plastic, be careful to open the ball cock SLOWLY
> so you do not blow out the lines.  It can happen fairly easily,
> especially when it is cold and th plastic embrittles a bit.b
> --
> -Andy V.
> Eventide Forge
> Mad Science Inc.
> Scottsdale, AZ
> 
> foolish being...
> you can't get away with your snobbery any longer. Your thoughts on life
> are 
> only thoughts coming from one person . Your opinion is only one out of
> the 
> billions of other minds out there. You may think you can take over the
> world 
> Pinky, but you will fail.
> 
> -Seshat McDaniel, the daughter I never had that manages to
>           follow me around the house like a bad cold.
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