We got wood from a place called Amish Hardwoods around Burton, Ohio.
The land of snow, maple syrup and Amish buggies. Yes they looked Amish
to me. They had some of the coolest power tools I ever saw at my young
age of 20. Huge circular saws, power debarkers, kilns. It might be
more a question of how strict they are but I guess those guys strayed.
I read that the community leaders can decide on thngs like modern
cooling systems for their milk so they can sell for higher prices.


This article suggest that they need to feed themselves and land is
expensive so they might turn to jobs off the farm.
http://geography.uwo.ca/research/gre...oweryNoble.pdf

I read somewhere that the other benefit of metal pipe besides being
less prone to blow up it that is helps condensate the compressed air.
I doubt that it is really that effective as I recall plenty of spray
in a shop I worked in that had metal air plumbing.

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 18:02:04 -0500, "Myxylplyk"
wrote:

Unless this place was by a nicely moving creek and had either a waterwheel
or a pack of apprentices taking turns on the bicycle powering the
compressor, you wern't in an Amish shop.


:P

"BT98" wrote in message
roups.com...
I was into a Amish window factory the other day and their air lines
caught my eye. They used 3" PVC pipe for all their air lines
suspended from the ceiling with supports and T's with snap couplers at
all the work stations. They used brass gas line couplers for shut
offs for the various branches. A 8" pressure gauge noted 145# PSI at
the end of the line. What are the Plusses for this type of system
other than the line acting as a storage media? I didn't see any water
separators and was wondering if they were using a engine driven
compressor in the cold and drawing cold air into the compressor and
bringing it in a warm shop what effect this type of line would have?