[TheForge] Shop Air using Copper

[Jerry Smith]

I did think about using PVC, but it becomes brittle with time and usage, so I just strung pneumatic hoses thru the ceiling way and have those retractable hose reels in the ceiling.

I too have a manual shut off valve inline at the main compressor, plus a hand full of check valves at each point that have a cut in the line for a T to feed the hose reels.

Jerry 


--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Cindy and James <jallcorn at suddenlink.net> wrote:

> From: Cindy and James <jallcorn at suddenlink.net>
> Subject: [TheForge] Shop Air  using Copper
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 10:59 AM
> My only comment is that you can drive a nail thru a copper
> line and you 
> can't usually hurt a steel pipe.  But copper is a lot
> easier to use than 
> steel. 
> I plumbed my shop air system w/ 3/4" sch 40 pvc, about
> 250' of it so 
> far.  It has far more limitations than copper but is even
> cheaper and 
> easier. 
> I just turn the valve at my compressor each night,
> isolating the 
> compressor in case the line breaks or I have a leak.
> James
> >    6. Shop Air  using Copper
> (bistline at md.metrocast.net)
> >   
> >
> > Subject:
> > [TheForge] Shop Air using Copper
> > From:
> > bistline at md.metrocast.net
> > Date:
> > Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:21:31 -0500 (EST)
> > To:
> > theforge at mailman.qth.net
> >
> > To:
> > theforge at mailman.qth.net
> >
> >
> > Trying to get hard air lines set up in my shop. Went
> to lowes to buy
> > "iron" pipe and noticed its made in Korea
> brand name Tuna. At many levels
> > that just bothers me. I turn around to see copper made
> in the USA. Believe
> > it or not the type L 3/4 copper is $1.25 a 10ft stick
> cheaper than the
> > "iron". I notice type m copper that is $5
> cheaper yet. The type L has a
> > slightly thicker wall thickness. I know that the
> standard for air lines is
> > "iron pipe" however a little web searching
> has revealed copper is commonly
> > used.  *_Any inputs on copper for air lines_?*
> >
> >
> >   
> >
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