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[Shop-talk] The air saga continues...

Subject: [Shop-talk] The air saga continues...
From: jem at milleredp.com (John Miller)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 22:50:19 -0700
References: <OFCC0AFCF9.8DF3A143-ON852578A1.000DD09C-852578A1.000E9F9C@mail.megageek.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1105310917320.6978@thunder.banklogic.net> <BANLkTinsPxHfOkr8yYcrAxr+SXZFp2vR4Q@mail.gmail.com> <4DE5C453.8040303@frontier.com>
>>> > If it were me, I'd put a valve on the compressor outlet that gets
>>> shut off

> Me too (or three). I just put a 3/4" ball valve on the tank discharge,
> and I close it off every evening before I leave the shop. I have QD
> fittings an most or all of my air lines and they always seem to leak a
> tiny bit.

Seems there's always going to be something that leaks a little.  My 
experience has been that if you mount the quick-disconnects pointed down 
or angled below the horizontal they'll corrode and begin to leak if not 
stick wide-open.   I have one in my shop right now that's permanently 
got a blow-gun stuck in it because I'm too lazy to change it.

John.

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