[Shop-talk] Airline Piping

[David Scheidt]

On 8/19/07, Kent Sullivan <kentsu at corvairkid.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I looked at my unit and verified that the one I have is:
>
> http://www.granzow.com/valves/drain/ET20M-3-8/
>
> I am fortunate to not have to worry about neighbors hearing the noise. The
> first reason is that the discharge pipe stays inside the shop: it dumps into
> a floor drain. The second reason is the shop is back from the street a ways.
>
>

There are drains that only trip when the fluid level reaches a certain
point.  I know donaldson makes some, but I've only seen them on big
(1000 cfm or so) compressors.  They also don't dump any air, just the
condensate, so they're nearly silent.  I don't know if they make home
sized ones, or not.

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David Scheidt
dmscheidt at gmail.com