New to us compressor day

[Nothinghead]

I started at a new shop in January. I'm the only tech and I'm managing a fleet of about 15 vehicles, trailers, and heavy equipment along with tons of small engine, carpentry, and some plumbing.

The shop the guy had was junk. We've been looking for an upgrade but he's cheap and I like buying used deals so we took 6 months to find one.

On Monday I picked up a ts5n5 ingersoll Rand 80 gallon two stage. It's from 2001 but looks almost brand new.

I plumbed the shop with 1" PEX with two drops with 3/4" and 1/2" quick couplers, and as soon as the electrician gets here to do the 230v we'll have real air in the shop. I'm pretty pumped. My 3/4 gun, die grinder, and air hammer have been needed a few times and I've just had to make due without. No more!

 

[The Cobbler]

 

[Nothinghead]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tomorrow. Had to do motor mounts and radiator fan on a loader today and I ran out of time.

 

[nadogail]

Best wishes for our continued success. You got off to a good start by not touching the Third Rail of Air Systems PVC pipe.

 

[Nothinghead]

Hahaha! I knew better. It was between pex, copper or black iron. I wanted to save the boss some money though. Used 110' of 1" pex for the whole project.

 

[brianh]

Best wishes for our continued success. You got off to a good start by not touching the Third Rail of Air Systems PVC pipe.

Don't worry someone will go off on the pex, seen it before, been using pex myself for over 20 years with zero problems.

 

[Nothinghead]

Can't please em all and that's fine. It's my shop, the boss's money so they can disagree.

 

[Nothinghead]

There you go Hoss. Pictures added.