Right chums, Basically I have just bought myself a clarke sec16C150 air compressor and want to run air lines in my garage. The compressor, due to its largish size, will be housed in a small shed type thing outside my garage, firstly to keep noise down and secondly to give me more room in the garage.

What I fancy doing is running copper pipework in the garage with 2 outlets, one for spray gun and one for air tools. This garage isnt huge so im not too worried about pressure drop of a large run. Would I be better off running the pipework in 22mm copper or 15mm copper. Im just worried that by using 15mm copper it would restrict the air flow too much and would be pretty useless.

Hope that makes sense

Neil

 

u can use proper stuff,with plastic joins,got it round both my units no problems,

 

What stuff is it? Do you know what bore size I would need

Cheers

 

http://www.airlines-pneumatics.com/w...ctCode=S080001
They should be able to help out.

 

I wouldn't use copper personally as it could possibly burst at the soldered joints (I thought about using it too but was advised not to). Still not got mine plumbed in so I'm watching this with interest

 

Copper aint ideal but does meet specification to carry compressed air. In most instances where we have fitted compressed air lines we use galvanised steel tube with screwed fittings, but that's in a commercial premises with more chance of mechanical damage....

If you are going to use copper, might be an idea to copper/copper braze or silver solder the joints rather than soft solder, as said above the soft soldered joints can suffer premature failure....

HTH

Ian

 

i used a cheep hosepipe style pipe from machinemart for my compressor, the rubbeery ones get fatigued over time and burst, the cheep clear one is still ok 3 years later.

i hope this means the resto is coming on nicely !!!

 

think mines 15MM running on a 200 litre comp

 

The proper air line we use at work has an inner bore of approx 10mm, we have some 100meter runs, and its fine! If you are using anything that consumes large quantities of air then you may have a problem, but for a simple spray gun/air tools you will be fine!

 

Well its been on hold over xmas due to work commitments etc.. But im all ready to crack on with it again due to aquiring a new welder and now the compressor..so keep your eyes peeled for the resto thread to reappear.

Cheers for all the advice lads.. Ill probably use copper just because its easy to work with. Ill have a look at compression fittings to see how much pressure they can handle