Recent content by Chris

Thanks! I tested a new way to find leaks. I did put a balloon over the end fittings and left them over night. In the morning I could just check which one that had air in it. I did find 2 minor leaks with this test that I didn´t find with soapwater. This morning I couldn´t see on the gauge that...

Here some pictures from my garage...

No it´s a small system so there are no ball valves.

I have noticed a small pressuredrop during the night so now I am trying to find the leak. I use soapwater is there any better way? I have found 2 places already and hopefully I have fixed the leakage now.

Is it this link your are looking for? http://www.sharpe1.com/dr-pipe.htm it was that side I used for planning my installation

I bought them at my local "tubestore" where I also bought the copper pipes.

Thanks for the nice words! The fittings looks like this picture here below (except the colour) and I have just cut the copper pipes and the put the fittings on, works really well and I have checked all the fittings tonight and there are no airleak anywhere. I haven´t done anything to the...

Thanks! To bend the copper I barrowed a tool from a local shop. It looks somthing like this. The clips are normally used in bathrooms to keep the waterpipes in place.

Today I have made some airline installation. It´s the first time I been working with copper tubes som some bends are not perfect. I have used only screwconnections. I also have bought some black tube normally used for protectong cables and put over the copper tubes.

Very nice garage....:thumbup:

I am starting to see the end of my garageproject... Here are some pictures.

I will build the box in an cold area to save space in the garage but I will take air/heat from inside the garage.

I am building a sounddamped box for my compressor and don´t know how much ventilation I need? To keep the sound at a minimum I don´t want put in to big ventiltionholes. I can understand that this has to do which capacity the compressor have and the use. But maybe there is some "formula" or...

Thansk for all tips. I am noticing that you have much more tools/holders in USA....here in Sweden I haven´t seen any of those except the first one....

Do you have them just in a box or are you using those stand with a lots of holes in it? I am looking for something that I can but in the drawer in my cabinets that organize my drill bits.