At 05:29 PM 10/26/2005 -0400, Mullen, Tim \(IIS\) wrote:
>That's way too rich for my taste. The stuff might be good for an
>industrial setting where it's necessary to change it often, but for my
>garage (if I ever get around to replacing the hoses I'm using instead of
>hard piping to connect my hose reels, etc.), I either use black piping
>or more likely cobble together some nice inexpensive copper pipes...
Inch,
I agree with Tim. A friend of mine works for a construction firm, and had
access to a pipe clamp, a port-a-band, and the die and die wrench. We bought
80' of black pipe, elbows, and couplings to plumb my shop. There are at
least 6 90deg elbows 5 Ts.In my 2 bay garage, I have 1 drop by my compressor,
which is the feed, one drop with a ball valve (drain) and fitting over my
workbench, another drop by the side door of the garage (where I do all my
sand blasting), and one between both of the main garage doors. This
supplies air to allow working in the driveway.
Total cost was around $150. Used all but about 5' of the pipe. With the
die we could thread our own, so we didn't need to have a bunch of different
length pipes around. We custom made our own.
Originally we tried to seal the joints with teflon tape. That didn't work.
We had a ton of air leaks. So we pulled the system down and redid every
joint with "blue block" pipe sealent. That fixed 95% or more of the leaks.
2 of use working on cutting, threading, and fitting the pipe, it took us about
about 4hr to scope out the job and get the supplies, 6hr on Sun. and then
3 hr for 4 night. So a total of about 44hr. Don't know how much of that
time was spent chasing leaks.
I've very happy with this setup, but I think if I were to do it again, I
might just use copper pipe, and sweat the joints together. I think it
would be a little easier and possibly a little cheaper.
John
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