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Having bought a real compressor (60 Gallon Ingersoll Rand 5 HP) I followed John's suggestion on piping. About 50 feet of copper tune hung up by the ceiling with a slight slope towards the outlet. The idea being the air has a chance to cool and some of the moisture will condense in the tube. At the outlet end there is a "T". One leg goes down to a drain valve and the other leg goes up to feed the shop.
Having done some sand blasting I got a bit of water out of the drain valve.

Needing to Sand blast some smaller parts (Wheels and seat back) and did not have a blasting cabinet so I made a temporary one. Worked fairly well at no cost.


David

Air pipe setup.jpgAir pipe setup 2.jpgSand blasting setup.jpgSand blasting setup 2.jpg
 
Dave - Bravo! You should go into business doing installations like that. Sure beats the Rube Goldberg system my neighbor has.

Where'd you learn working with copper pipe?

Tom M.
 
Hello Tom

Thank you.

In the days before PVC pipe copper was all we had in England so I learned early how to do copper joints. Ours were a bit easier as they had the solder in the fitting. Clean, Flux and heat was all it took. Wiping lead pipe joints took real skill one that I never mastered.

The copper in the photo is the latest addition. The blue line was added a few months ago as an easy way to get air to several locations and connect the new setup to the rest of the shop. The blue line is a Northern Tool 1/2' Poly tube kit which is great to work with.

David
 
I like the blast "cabinet." I'd really like to have a blast cabinet, but I just don't have room for it. So, I've thought of doing things similar to what you did. Nice to see someone doing it, and that it seems to work.
 
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