Quick coupler of choice

[Sumboodie]

Why didn't you run your main line in the corner? Would have saved a fair bit of tube it seems?

The ones I use have an "OSHA" coupler so you have to slide back a ring that is a valve. It makes hooking and unhooking tools much easier since there isn't any pressure against the coupler.

 

[thejudges69]

Why didn't you run your main line in the corner? Would have saved a fair bit of tube it seems?

The ones I use have an "OSHA" coupler so you have to slide back a ring that is a valve. It makes hooking and unhooking tools much easier since there isn't any pressure against the coupler.

My compressor is dead center of the doors, this was the simplest cleanest approach with the 6 branches to the walls, essentially I have one main line front to back in the center of the garage. My old shop was a loop system but I had steel trusses to contend with on that shop and didn’t want air lines free hanging.

 

[dnschmidt]

Milton is a catalog company. They do not design or manufacture anything and never have.

The so called V style standard was created by CEJN a Swedish company.

Completely true but also completely irrelevant as in American this type of fitting, deservingly so or not, are commonly referred to as Milton V although they did nothing whatsoever with respect to designing them. As Jimmy Carter correctly noted: "Life is not Fair."

 

[u2slow]

I started with M fittings because I didn't know any better.

My big impact gun never punched very hard, so I tried P/T fittings (3/8") and that made a huge difference. A little tough/obscure fitting to find though... then got to the V which flows almost as much, and offers M compatibility.

When I started hard-piping the shop, I went with G type (1/2") to jumper my portable compressor to the fixed piping.

 

[crazylunker]

I’m sorry guys, not starting a ******* contest, but my dads 82 years old and still connects and disconnects his old Milton’s with ease. I watched some of the stedlin YouTube videos, and good lord, if you could dramatize it anymore. Are they good connectors? Idk, cause I don’t own any. But based on them videos . I’m happy with my purchases of Dixon.

you are right on the old miltons. I have 2 bad shoulders and was having trouble pushing the newer style (push connect) couplers together.

I have the T style male fittings on everything and recently bought some of the old school female couplers where you have to slide the collar back first, OMG I forgot how easy they are to connect even at 170psi.

needless to say I'm swapping all the female couplers back to the old style.