Air compressors (refers: Aldi)

I think I paid about £18 a length or so. It was compressed air rated
and galvanised.

Remember to leave a small tail hanging down at the lowest point with a
screw-in plug to let any condensation gather.

I crack it off every few months, so to speak.

P.

 

I'd just use the standard 20bar 3/4" bore rubber hose that I've got a
large amount of already.

The good thing about rubber hose is that you can route it wherever you
want simply by putting up a cup hook and hanging it off a cable tie
and if it does develop a hole you either tape over it with gaffer
tape, put a fixed joint in it or throw it in the stores at work and
take a new length.

We throw our airlines off the top of buildings and people drive
forklift trucks over them on a regular basis so I suspect they'll
outlast any steel equivalent.

 

Good plan; I'd leave a lever valve open during downtime. My use of it
would be irregular anyway, so the system would get ample time to drain.

 

And what have they done to you?

I just need a air point by the bench and another (20' away) by the
door for taking air lines outside for bike tyres / tools in the back
yard or our cars in the road.

I also considered running a plastic (or rubber?) line through the duct
between the house and garage and having an air point in the lean-to.

You never know when it might come in handy. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

 

When you've got to carry four (or more) 50' lengths of airline down a
couple of hundred feet of stairs you soon start chucking them off the
top of the building. I can carry two at a time but they feel heavy
very quickly so as long as we're cunning about where and when we throw
them off they never get carried.

People drive over them because they can't be arsed to go the long way
round and take short cuts through where we're working. We try to keep
airlines off the floor but it's not always possible and the only
indication that someone has driven over them is a momentary lapse in
power. You'll always get a **** who parks his truck on the lines then
fucks off but we normally remove the gas bottle and hide it somewhere
or put a chain between the brake pedal and the steering wheel so they
can't drive away when they want to.

 

Or jack it up and let it back down on blocks that only just keep the
wheels off the ground...

 

Understood. I have a couple of rubber airlines and they are quite
heavy (considering). I fancy one of those self-recoiling jobbies but
they always seem a bit expensive (compared with just coiling the line
up manually anyway).

<pictures Tom and Jerry moment looking into the business end of yer
pneumatic nail gun>

Sounds like fun at your place. ;-)

Daughter is really getting into her Tree Surgery apprenticeship and
playing with all sorts of fun kit. 50' in the air on a MEWP one min
and remotely controlling a cat tracked stump grinder the next. How
nice to use kit called "The Predator R28T" or "TimberWolf 190TDHB
(Turbo)".

Maybe that's partly why she likes her "MZ ETZ 251 Saxon Tour" (or
maybe not) ...

T i m

 

Do you *really* think you need to put ideas into his head?

 

They're brilliant for working under shitty cars when there's no room to
swing a normal ratchet. Mine gets regular use on a lot of other jobs too
where laziness plays a part.


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We buy a lot of Blue-Point stuff too and it's as durable as Snap-On and
carries the same lifetime guarantee, but some tools aren't duplicated in the
two ranges.

I've no Wifi stuff at all.

Indeed. Although "Oh" wasn't the word I used.

It's one of the big issues with tools and compressors. We have a compressor
that can supply lots of air (it's a 25hp motor doing the work) at 150psi
with no trouble, but try running two air tools and the spraygun at the same
time and the bottleneck is the "mains" airline. Instant drop in pressure at
the spray gun and a slowing down of the other tools. We really need to
install a wide bore pipe from the compressor to the booth and to install a
couple of air stations to really benefit from the capacity of the
compressor, but we've no round tuits laying around.
..

Filters aren't usually an issue and we use "VAL" HVLP fittings. PCL's are
(IIRC) only about 4mm diameter and that's too small for anything HV.

They've not had VAL fittings then. They defy any attempt to kill them. Being
dropped, run over by cars, having all sorts of shite dropped on them and
they still don't break. PCL's were the standard for years though (still is
for most air tools and pre-assembles airlines) and it's not easy getting
some folk to change.

Bog standard PCL if there's a fitting included. Usually they don't come with
the tools leaving you to buy them yourself.


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Scaffolding pipe's the thing, Cheap, easy to get and easy to cut threads
onto.

It'd be fun to see though.


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My compressor is drained every morning. There's nothing like routine and if
(when) a drain time is missed, it can seriously **** up a paint job. Water
and Iso & acrylic paints don't mix too well.

If we miss one morning, it's no big deal, but if we only drained it weekly
or monthly and forgot, I'd be gutted when I found out.


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You need a larger bore than the standard plastic pipes though.


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A good air line will outlast most people The one in our booth is one I
got off a guy 20 years ago and he used it for **** knows how long before he
retired. It's been in constant use all its life too and it's still going
strong with only its original coupler being swapped for a "VAL" coupler.


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But manually coiling them makes them take on a "coil" mentality and they
won't lie flat and reach where they need to reach. They need to be wound and
"unwound" as you coil them, but it's far easier to and tidier to have a wall
mounted springy reel and they're actually not much more costly than a normal
air line.


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I've got a single. Bought for airbrush work and small "blow-in's". Silent in
operation but useless for anything but an airbrush. SimAir Studio it is.

Indeed.


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I've used mine in the *same* room as her watching TV.


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He's trying to help.

I like to believe that there are hundreds of malicious tricks still
waiting for me to find them but as time goes on it's starting to
appear that maybe there aren't that many.

 

I'm sure he thinks that too.

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

Ummm... Adie hasn't told you which hotel we're staying at, has she?

 

There's a lot of stuff you can do if you've access to a crane.