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Default Here we go again: PVC PIPE FOR AIR SUPPLY LINES

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On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:58:21 -0500, Gerald Miller
wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:34:42 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

I wondered about the Ts pointing up, but it made sense
later. Don't want water to rust and corrode the threads for
the plugs.

When I did a bit of pipe fitting, my old boss used to use
teflon tape, plus yellow Rectorseal #5 on the exterior /
male threads. That combination seemed to do good.

A union or two in the system makes it easier to take apart.
In theory, the unions mating surface doesn't need
Rectorseal, but the threads to the black iron do need teflon
and rectorseal.

I'd think it would make sense to spray paint the air pipe,
so it's different color than the other utilities. Water is
blue, natural gas is yellow. Fire protection is red. So,
what's that leave?

Black???
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

Green is still available - generally used for OXYGEN.


Perhaps a nice plaid?

I'd be really nervous about painting PVC pipe with any sort of solvent
based paint. It reminds me too much of what happens when you use
cyanoacrylate glue/threadlocker on Lexan. Not a pretty thing, but at
least it fails quickly.

Doug White