"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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Mike Marlow wrote:

Wasn't the original post referring to 1/2" air hose?


I didn't think so. My original mention of flexible hose simply stated
"air hose".

Ok - assumption on my part.

The stuff in the bike shop is a product that I think comes
from the commercial beverage dispensing industry. FWIW, this is a big
bike shop, with lots of repair / build stations in multiple rooms, not
what you'd typically see. Their usual use of compressed air is blow
guns, so the demand can be pretty good during peak tune / clean season.


Pretty low demand by air compressor/delivery system standards.

I'm with you all the way if the line is driving die grinders, air
routers, and sanders all day long. I'd probably just run a pipe to that
work area. For the average one or two person shop we talk about here,
even 1/2" hose should be fine.

Lots of guys want to do spray painting and that kind of delivery capacity,
especially with smaller compressors, will hurt their efforts. For a small
operation like most folks here have, and some simple blow gun, air nailer,
etc., low air volume operations, I agree it could be suitable. If they
envision larger air volume requirements though, I'd suggest some pipe - and
these days that pipe would be copper. Mine is a black pipe system, and if I
had it to do over again, I'd go copper.

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-Mike-