[TheForge] Air compressor and ABANA

[Jeff Harding]

I'm hip Stephen;

   I'm convinced, no PVC for air lines for me, BUT...If you've ever
done any "serious" paint work, you'll understand my reluctance to use
a 1" line.  If you are sure you will "NEVER"  want to produce high
quality paint jobs from this air system, 1" will  be great, 3/4" will
be fine.

   Jeff   ><>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen McGehee" <irony@epowerc.net>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Air compressor and ABANA


> Jeff--2" air line will supply a gazillion tools, all at once.  As
small
> as your shop is and assuming that only one or two tools will be in
use
> at one time, one inch in a loop should supply more than enough air.
>
> Repeating what others have said, please DO NOT USE PVC for 100 psi
air.
> In summertime the heat near your ceiling/roof will make this stuff
get
> soft.  I personally know a fellow who is an automotive machinist and
his
> boss made them run 3/4" pvc all around the shop, over several men's
> objections.  One July day, during lunch, the system came apart and
if
> any of that plastic had struck a person, it would not have been
pretty.
> The employees told the boss man that they were all out of there
unless
> the lines were replaced with steel.
> One trip to the ER to have your eyeball de-pvc'ed might cost more
than
> 100' of schedule 40 black iron pipe...
> There is enough danger that we cannot avoid as it is.  Work safe.
> Stephen