[DeTomaso] Air Line

[Kirby Schrader]

This subject has come up a bunch of times and, like religion, everyone has
an opinion.
:-)

I've read all the past emails about it, I've read lots of information
online, thought about it a lot (yes, it hurt), talked to some shops in the
area that use air tools and decided to listen to the guys in the link below.
I bought their 'starter kit' also, just for the less hassle factor from my
point of view. After that, I made lots of visits to Home Depot and my air
piping is done. Although they supply lots of teflon tape and recommend it, I
found a good thread sealer worked much better. It was a little messier, but
I didn't have to keep fixing leaks that seem to come up on some joints. Of
course, I could write that off to incompetency on my part...

See what you think:
http://www.tptools.com/statictext/airline-piping-diagram.pdf

The driers, filters and 'risers' are deemed most important. They don't like
copper, galvanized can be used, but I've read the galvanizing can flake off.
This is a wash as far as I'm concerned. If you have the 'risers' or traps,
then the rust from the steel pipe will be caught same as the flakes from the
galvanized pipe.

And I've read that lots of folks used PVC and 'have never had a problem'.
Personally, I'd stay away from PVC for various reasons... all which have
been discussed both here and at TP Tools.

FWIW and happy with my setup.

Kirby

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 20:41, GW <gow2 at rc-tech.net> wrote:

> For our laser and plasma machine we are running a 1" air line. In my
> shop I ran the line out of steel but it was not near that large. We
> don't want to use steel due to rust and contamination. Any
> recommendations for commercial 1" air line?
>
> G
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