Hard Air Lines What are my options ?

[Ex-Pat]

I am looking to run an air line from my attic space into my garage below.

What are my options?, it will be a fairly straight run out of the compressor and down throught the floor/Ceiling

 

[litljay]

copper pipe
black pipe
rapidair
airnet
duratec

I think rapidair has a cheaper equivalent at HF.

*Edit - I just noticed you said "Hard", so that takes out the rapidair (and HF equivalent).

 

[benjamming]

stainless steel

 

[Ex-Pat]

Actually the Rapid air looks like exactly what I am after thankyou

The master kit at $140 looks just the ticket....

Love this board

 

[z28snksknr]

What about this stuff? Any good?

http://www.garage-pak.com/

 

[1Garageman]

What about this stuff? Any good?

http://www.garage-pak.com/

looks like a neet system, but I wish they would put their price right out there on it. In order to get the price of stuff you have to fill out a damn page long information sheet to "get a quote".

 

[pgreen]

Just use PVC!!

I'm outta here before the flame hits!

 

[mybuickgs]

What about this stuff? Any good?

http://www.garage-pak.com/

We installed this in our aviation shop. Looks great, very easy to install and expensive. We have 27,000 sq feet so made sense for us. If you have the $$$$ well worth it.

 

[z28snksknr]

We installed this in our aviation shop. Looks great, very easy to install and expensive. We have 27,000 sq feet so made sense for us. If you have the $$$$ well worth it.

They have 1 and 2 car garage kits for chair rail systems and overhead systems - looks like $500 gets you a kit for a 2 car garage. How does that compare to the other options?

 

[hetkind]

1/2 black pipe

 

[Dan0myte]

1/2 black pipe

... if you have a fantastic air dryer system. Moist air in black pipe = rust.

 

[Benw455]

3/4" Black pipe.

 

[porschedude996TT]

Im my opinion:

$$$$$$$$$$
Orbital Welded Stainless Steel Pipe
Stainless Steel Tubing with Swaglok Fittings

$$$$
Airnet Alum Tubing and Fittings
Duratec Plastic/Alum Tubing and Fittings
Garage-Pak Alum Tubing
Rapidair Plastic Tubing and Fittings

$$$
Copper Tubing with Sharkbite Fittings
Copper Tubing with sweated joints
Galvanized Pipe
Black Pipe

$
PVC

 

[hetkind]

high strength drawn aluminium tubing with flare fitting is on par with black iron...and far easier to work with...

Howard

 

[stricht8]

Just use good ol' black iron pipe. PVC= no no. Can shatter under pressure and leave plastic shrapnel everywhere.

 

[akdiesel]

Im my opinion:

$$$$$$$$$$
Orbital Welded Stainless Steel Pipe
Stainless Steel Tubing with Swaglok Fittings

$$$$
Airnet Alum Tubing and Fittings
Duratec Plastic/Alum Tubing and Fittings
Garage-Pak Alum Tubing
Rapidair Plastic Tubing and Fittings

$$$
Copper Tubing with Sharkbite Fittings
Copper Tubing with sweated joints
Galvanized Pipe
Black Pipe

$
PVC

I have Swagelok through out my shop in 3/4". No rusting issues and I can easily add addtional runs if needed.
I also used the 1/2", running along side of the 3/4" air line, for my electric pressure washer so I can have two different locations with one pump.

 

[Officer Bill]

looks like a neet system, but I wish they would put their price right out there on it. In order to get the price of stuff you have to fill out a damn page long information sheet to "get a quote".

When you hit the buy button the price is listed at $246

 

[Goobzilla]

What about Pex-Al-Pex?

 

[krooser]

I used 1/2" and 3/4" black pipe...coated the insides with black rustoleum before I installed it...no rust in 8 years. I have about $90.00 in the whole system for my 1500 sq. ft. shop.

I can't imagine anyone spending hundreds of dollars on those fancy "systems" when iron (and copper) work so well.

 

[69charged]

i used 1/2" copper pipe for over 5 years now and run at 125psi. it was 8 dollars for 12 feet at the time i bought it. not sure what it is now. in my new garage that i am about to move into, i will use the same thing. i sweated the joints. i dont think i could justify the more expensive stuff on my type of budget.
clarence

 

[GeorgiaHybrid]

I used 3/4" copper with silver soldered joints for the main lines and 1/2" for the drops in my garage. Easy to modify, fairly cheap to run (on par with black iron), no rust issues (other than your tank...) and can be done by the average person without any special tools other than a MAP torch and tubing cutter and a few minutes learning how to sweat a joint.

 

[ddawg16]

I have to agree with GeorgiaHyb for the same reasons.....I used copper in my garage as well....mainly because of all the turns....which would have been a PIA without a pipe threader next to me....

If you have some long straight runs....black pipe is a great way to go...but when space is tight...copper....

Besides...sweating copper is more fun than threading black pipe...my wife even enjoys the sweating....and the copper pipe too...

 

[ironroad 9c1]

yea that RapidAir is not gonna be good for any fairly long run, that cheap *** 3/8's tubing is really gonna gut down on your available CFM if you do any Real work for air tools. Copper all the way.