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Air Compressor - Piping for Gunsmithing Equipment
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<blockquote data-quote="jpndave" data-source="post: 2534549" data-attributes="member: 5437"><p>I have used most all of the options presented (except the proprietary plastic ones). I'm going to run PEX in my shop for exactly what you are looking at. I did a patch up next to my compressor a decade or so ago when it's all I had available over a weekend and it worked brilliantly.</p><p></p><p>Copper run correctly close to the compressor can work well as a water separator - exactly as you've done. PVC is brittle and stupid expensive right now so not the huge cost savings it used to be. Black pipe = rust and you need a pipe threader (which I have and still wouldn't go that way). Yes everything is up in $ but some is up 20% and other 4x what it should be. </p><p></p><p>I am using Oetiker clamps with the PEX. I don't trust the other methods at that higher pressure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jpndave, post: 2534549, member: 5437"] I have used most all of the options presented (except the proprietary plastic ones). I'm going to run PEX in my shop for exactly what you are looking at. I did a patch up next to my compressor a decade or so ago when it's all I had available over a weekend and it worked brilliantly. Copper run correctly close to the compressor can work well as a water separator - exactly as you've done. PVC is brittle and stupid expensive right now so not the huge cost savings it used to be. Black pipe = rust and you need a pipe threader (which I have and still wouldn't go that way). Yes everything is up in $ but some is up 20% and other 4x what it should be. I am using Oetiker clamps with the PEX. I don't trust the other methods at that higher pressure. [/QUOTE]
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