[AT] Shop thoughts (was)Air Lines

[Louis]

Farmer,

I wasn't intending to ruffle any feathers.  I used a rubber hose on the
floor for years.  I got real tired of unplugging my sandblaster and having a
paint job ruined because of water.  

My wife's grandfather on his own went to the hardware store, and got a bunch
of pipe that was left over after the store had cut other pipe to custom
length.  He put it all up for me, that included threading the pipe.  He was
happy to have something to do.

As far as my big compressor having an automatic drain, it came with the
compressor.  Originally I was looking at a compressor at TSC. I went over to
a locally owned tool store, to compare compressors.  They sold me the unit
that I have for $100 over what the compressor would have cost from TSC.  It
is larger and has the drain and automatic low oil shut down on it.

I don't buy things just to have them, I buy what is needed in my line of
work.  Yes, I originally started restoring tractors as a hobby, but it has
grown into a business.  

I think what I was trying to say originally is that pipe helps tremendously
in getting water out of the air system.  

Lou

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Indiana Robinson
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:00 PM
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Subject: RE: [AT] Shop thoughts (was)Air Lines


On 1 Aug 2005 at 13:17, Dean VP wrote:

> Farmer:
> 
> I am a bit concerned that you are over reacting here a bit. I don't 
> want to try to characterize any list members shop as I haven't seen 
> very many. What works for them is fine with me. But I think a wrong 
> impression can be gained by the characterization that those of us who 
> use more than rubber hose in our air lines have extravagant shops and 
> have thrown money foolishly into our shops is a bit off the edge, 
> IMHO.
> 
> I've seen a very good operating air compressor system made from a 
> portable compressor, a coil of copper tubing and one water filter. 
> That didn't cost very much and was a bit cumbersome. But it worked 
> quite well.
> 



	Hi Dean:

	Actually I was not really responding to your post, I know you to be
generally frugal 
from years of reading your stuff.   :-)   I certainly have nothing against
iron pipe 
except it takes more "sweating" in general than copper (pun intended). I
guess I have 
been on this list long enough to be dangerous...   :-)   I have seen the
same pattern 
here so often that I can feel it coming like a cold fog on a dark night.
First a few guys 
start discussing what works and what can be better. Next someone invariably
starts 
talking about "industrial standards" then several guys kick into full Tim
Taylor mode and 
someone starts saying that even iron pipe is no good and only gold plated
stainless steel 
will work because a piece of iron pipe exploded in 1903 and killed a cat in
Alabama and 
besides that is what they use in the nuclear plant that they work in...
;-)    Maybe 
this time I swung the bat before the pitcher actually let go of the ball.
But I know it 
is coming... It always does... I can feel that cold damp fog...   ;-)   Tim
Taylor lives. 



-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100 
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net

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