RE: Air line piping

["Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz@cablespeed.com>]

Yes, that's it....guess I am getting a little dyslexic.....Air Chem....Chem
Air.....well I was close enough that somebody figured it out...

One other thing to remember.....make a flexible connection between your air
compressor and the piping to eliminate vibration and eventual fatigue by
using a large diameter high pressure hose....I had a shop make me up such a
fitting out of hydraulic hose.

-----Original Message-----
From: shop-talk-owner@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:shop-talk-owner@Autox.Team.Net]
On Behalf Of Mark Watson
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:56 PM
To: 'Shop-Talk Mailing List'
Subject: RE: Air line piping



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>B)Don't use regular PVC pipe...if it gets hit under pressure you will
>get "fragged"....the better solution is to contact a large plumbing
>supply house and have them provide you with some literature on "Air
>Chem"....this is a special heavy duty green PVC pipe made specifically
>for airlines. It does require their special primer and cement. The Air
>Chem System does have lots of neat special items like "riser drops"
>that reduce the amount of water getting to your tools.

Is the product you mean "Chem Aire"?  Link:
http://www.nibco.com/cms.do?id=2&pId=14

Link for technical literature:  http://www.nibco.com/assets/ChmairTech.pdf

This looks like really neat stuff!

The tech lit even has an example shop piping layout shown on page 14.

Mark Watson
1956 Daimler Regency Mk II '104'
1965 Ford Falcon
other wheeled transportation devices