My air system is finished

[G19Tony]

I got the compressor from the guy I rent a hangar from, 80 gal CH. I cleaned it up and it runs great. I also got the Rapid Air system he had in the hangar. I only used a little bit of it, and gave the rest to my brother. The filter and regulator are Coil Hose. They are the industrial size, overkill, to be sure, but they were a good price on Ebay. The Unistrut, I got from the local McFadden Dale. I got the idea for it from here. Thanks! That is the coolest stuff. I have 50ft of Goodyear hose on a Reelworks 100ft reel from Northern Tool. I also cleaned up the gumball machine.

The galvanized pipe on top of the manifold is leaking a little. I'm planning on getting some copper and learning how to sweat pipe. Comments are better ideas are appreciated.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Is the tank drain really that far up on the side ?

 

[G19Tony]

Is the tank drain really that far up on the side ?

Yes, I took it apart, and there is a tube that goes into the bottom of the tank. There is always the petcock, too.

 

[steve308]

You need more stickers on your fridge.

 

[RECox286]

You need another fridge for stickers !

Uncle Bob



Air system looks real butch.

 

[dfiler2]

Looks really nice, sweating copper really isn't hard to do. Clean both sides well with lite sand paper, even new fittings, spread with flux, heat the fitting with a torch while touching the joint every few seconds with the solder until the solder melts and gets drawn into the fitting. At that point remove the direct heat and run the solder around the fitting.

 

[sberry]

I agree it looks pretty good but, ideally the ball valve would be mounted to the tank. Not a real big a deal though.

 

[Zrexxer]

Is the tank drain really that far up on the side ?

It's called a "bucket-height drain" and it's fairly common on better compressors. I wasn't an art major but this is kinda how it works:

 

[chrispyny]

Love it. So clean. Can u please tell me how u mounted all your stuff to the unistrut? Is there various hardware with multiple attachments one can buy to work with unistrut?

 

[G19Tony]

Love it. So clean. Can u please tell me how u mounted all your stuff to the unistrut? Is there various hardware with multiple attachments one can buy to work with unistrut?

I used spring nuts. They come in various sizes. Very easy to work with. I'm looking for other things I can attach to it.

 

[rburke65]

Unistrut makes spring loaded nuts of various thread size, that slide into the channel of th strut. It's a great system.