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Re: Air line piping

To: "John Miller" <jem@milleredp.com>
Subject: Re: Air line piping
From: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:16:53 -0500
On 12/31/06, John Miller <jem@milleredp.com> wrote:
>
>
> For drops you put in a tee pointing UP with a 4in or so nipple pointing
> up, then an elbow and a street-ell to turn that 180 (well, 177) degrees
> to a downward drop, that way any water stays in the main run and doesn't
> enter the drop.
>

And you don't put your air fitting at the end of the drop pipe, but a
foot or so up.  put a ball valve at the end of the pipe, so you can
blow out the water/oil/pipe scale that ends up in the drop.
-- 
David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com




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