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

[Philip Nase]

I've been wanting to plumb my garage for some time now.  Maybe this winter.

Who's making a decent auto retracting reel these days?

Phil Nase
home.comcast.net/~philnasecpa/

On May 26, 2011, at 1:17 AM, eric at megageek.com wrote:

> 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
> being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph
> Waldo Emerson
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