[Shop-talk] Ever have a day like this?

[eric at megageek.com]

OK, so after years of putting it off, I decided to plumb my shop for 
serious air!

I've been scrounging black iron pipe and fittings for years.  So I get all 
my pipe and fittings together, I have a great diagram as to how I'm going 
do it and I start the process.

About 1/2 way in, I realize that my shop is without air (compressor is 
disconnected) and water, I needed to remove water lines to run the air 
where I wanted them.

No problem, then, I realize that my truck's tire is flat! 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  years and years of maintenance and replacements with 
no problems, and the first flat I get is in my garage, on the VERY DAY 
that I don't have a compressor running to fix it!!!  AGGGG!!!!

So then I needed to stop, fix the tire, manually, and resume the plumbing 
tomorrow.  UGH!

On the bright side, when I get finished, I'll have a great system set up. 
1" lines (that is right, 1" lines) for the main section, with only a few 
3/4" drops.  There are 8 drops in all, 4 auto retracting reels, two manual 
reels (one with 100' of 3/8th line facing out the garage door) and a bunch 
of drains and water separators.  I can't wait for it to be finished!!!

Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
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Waldo Emerson