[AT] Air Lines

[Dean VP]

Farmer:

I think you are overlooking one of the key attributes of metal pipe in the
compressed air system. One of the functions of the metal pipe is to cool the
heated air from the compressor before it gets to the accessory. Some of us
run sand blasters, paint guns and other accessories which don't work well if
there is moisture in the compressed air. Metal piping, filters and traps
will aid in the removal of that water before it gets to the accessory.

Now if all the compressor is being used for is to pump up tires almost
anything will work.  

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

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storeroom door 


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-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Indiana Robinson
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 7:26 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Air Lines

	So far I have not found any problem just using rubber air hose. Its
cheap, its easy to 
work with and if it ever fails there is no shrapnel. It is available in
different sizes 
so you can start larger and step down but in my shop I have not found that
to be needed 
for normal function. I do have the tire changer in about the middle of the
line and it 
has an onboard air tank for the bead-seater. I think that tank helps keep
pressure up 
during burst of heavy air use elsewhere. If you want to add a line just
reach for a sharp 
pocket knife. If you want to turn a corner just turn the corner... you don't
have to 
"plumb" a corner. Some might think it will freeze water in the low spots and
I guess it 
could but I hang my working air hose in big coils over a hose hanger and if
it were to 
freeze anywhere it would be there. Not really a problem.
	I had considered the higher pressure black poly pipe but I had the
extra air hose from 
the tire shop days. I do want to put in a couple of kind of long underground
air lines 
and expect to use the black poly for that. I am unconcerned about having
high pressures 
or huge volumes of air in those lines so pressure drop is not really a
serious 
consideration.
	BTW, I bought a larger snap coupler not long back which gives better
air flow to stuff 
like my big blowgun and air tools. There are two things I don't like about
them. One is 
that before I could work them with one hand, now everything takes two hands
and sometimes 
a good bit of effort. Number two is that the old smaller coupler I was using
was one of 
those that would accept several different kinds of male ends, the new big
one only works 
on the one kind. I had a batch of oddball couplers from tire shops and was
using some of 
them on air tools.

-- 
"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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