mharris2007
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Hi everyone,
I made a post asking for help with plumbing here: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352821
There were so many good suggestions and it all culminated in this finished product.
I had never soldered a single thing in my life before this, and now I think I could plumb my whole house with copper!
There's a total of 80 feet of copper, who knows how many 90 degree fittings and street elbows, and a bunch of ball valves.
The only thing that leaks ever so slightly is the dang Chinese Home Depot copper union. I used theteflon ace hardware pencil on the face and lip of it but still a tiny leak. I have some gray rtv to try next but the leak is minimal.
The compressor and plumbing system's maiden voyage was me spraying a big dining table I made for our air bnb place in a home made spray booth.
I used a million 1/2" brass fittings, an ingersol rand filter right out of the tank, a Milton regulator then a 1/2" flexzilla whip to the 3/4" copper radiator. This finishes at a T where it goes to a pneumatics plus filter regulator from amazon. The other part of the T I'm going to take up into the attic and around to other places in the garage using 3/4" maxpipe. Then from the line off the pneumatics plus filter that's already there I'm going to T it and install a flexzilla reel on the ceiling and have a 3/8" npt hose off the other end of the T for painting.
All in all I think it turned out great. And not a drop of water in the distal water separator!
Thanks so much to everyone here. It was quite the project but worth it in the end.
I made a post asking for help with plumbing here: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352821
There were so many good suggestions and it all culminated in this finished product.
I had never soldered a single thing in my life before this, and now I think I could plumb my whole house with copper!
There's a total of 80 feet of copper, who knows how many 90 degree fittings and street elbows, and a bunch of ball valves.
The only thing that leaks ever so slightly is the dang Chinese Home Depot copper union. I used theteflon ace hardware pencil on the face and lip of it but still a tiny leak. I have some gray rtv to try next but the leak is minimal.
The compressor and plumbing system's maiden voyage was me spraying a big dining table I made for our air bnb place in a home made spray booth.
I used a million 1/2" brass fittings, an ingersol rand filter right out of the tank, a Milton regulator then a 1/2" flexzilla whip to the 3/4" copper radiator. This finishes at a T where it goes to a pneumatics plus filter regulator from amazon. The other part of the T I'm going to take up into the attic and around to other places in the garage using 3/4" maxpipe. Then from the line off the pneumatics plus filter that's already there I'm going to T it and install a flexzilla reel on the ceiling and have a 3/8" npt hose off the other end of the T for painting.
All in all I think it turned out great. And not a drop of water in the distal water separator!
Thanks so much to everyone here. It was quite the project but worth it in the end.