Ok, I need to finally finish my shop air line plumbing, I got my new
compressor almost 6 months ago now and I am tired of plugging in the hose
to the compressor outlet.
I went to the TIP site for their ideas on air plumbing and what I am
going to do is use copper pipe instead of black iron. My compressor is in
another room attached to the garage and it would be a tremendous pain to
plumb it with iron pipe, lots little nipples with corners here and there,
besides I already have the copper pipe left over. It is type L which is
the medium wall thickness, should I go buy type K ? I hope not, I have LOTS
of type L. No, I wont go to PVC and I don't want to start that discussion
again but in the past it has been decided that Copper was ok for air line.
Should I put a regulator at the compressor to control all the outlets (
this is the way my old compressor was rigged up and while it was a pain to
have to go to the compressor and crank up/down the pressure, it did work
) or should I plug in the air line directly to the compressor with a 1
foot flex line for vibration of course and put the full 175psi into the
line ? Doing this means buying more regulators but might be worth
it. Should I keep a regulator at the compressor and limit the line
pressure to 125psi. and then regulate down more at each outlet ? if I limit
the pressure to 125psi and then put regulators at the outlets anyway, i get
no financial gain from not putting in the full 175psi since I still have to
buy regulators so why should I not put the 175psi into the pipe.
Since I am concerned about heat at the compressor end of the air
lines, I will be silver soldering the thing together. I have done lots
and I mean lots of sweating pipes together with plain old solder, this will
be my first time silver soldering, any hints ? gotchas ?
Lots of questions,eh ?
mike
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