Air compressor systeme

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Eric

Your diagram covers the critical items..... have a lot of water drains.... in the humid Summer you will be draining daily.... Ball valves are best and as pointed out by Phil.....compressors are noisy....install it as far away as possible...... mine is in the attic of the barn..... and still noisy.... more thanonce it started automatically while I was standing next to it and made me jump like H**l.

There is some controversy with using copper pipes.... I resolved to the safe side and got some thread 1 inch ID steel pipes..... mind you we run our system at 150 pounds when driving with the 3/4 impact...puts out 920 FPT.

Steel pipe was bought precut and pre threaded from the local farm Coop store..

Make sure you have a good flex joint near your compressor tank or it will vibrate the whole shop....

Also make sure if you use a vertical tank that you have sufficient space for easy access to drain the tank as well..... in the Summer itis not unusual to drain half a gallon of oily water from the tank after a long session of sandblasting.

Good Luck

Boob