[Shop-talk] The air saga ENDS!

[BJNoSHOV8]

I was visiting my dad these past few days so I asked him about his air 
system.  He had to rebuild his shop about 30 years ago so of course he 
installed a new air system at the time.  He said he didn't have any 
problems with leaks, so I guess that means it is possible to have 
threaded pipe and get it to work reasonably well.  He has quite a few 
outlets and everywhere you plug a hose in seems to leak a little bit.

He has a big 2-cylinder compressor (2-stage?) with a big electric motor 
about the size of a beer keg.  His tank looks like it is 100-150 
gallons.  He turns the compressor off at night, then they turn it back 
on the next morning.  They run the pressure at 150-175 psi.  At 10 Fri. 
morning they had not turned the compressor back on, so 16 hours 
overnight the tank had leaked down to 75 psi.  We turned the compressor 
back on and it took 6 minutes to pump from 75 psi to 175 psi.



> OK, so I'm patenting my solution for these air lines (however, I'm not
> sure I'm the first person to do it.)