On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 12:25:06 PM UTC-5, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 08:24:31 -0800 (PST),
wrote:
I just bought a 100-foot air line from Harbor Freight and snaked that through the walls from the garage to the basement shop. I added a moisture trap and a regulator at the basement end. The compressor runs at 125 psi and I can cut down the pressure in the shop to anything I need for pin nailers, etc. This is really convenient and probably cost less and took less effort than any kind of plumbing.
That being said, a friend used ordinary CPVC pipe which is rated at 200 psi.
And he may luck out and move before it breaks, or he may luck out and
there not be anybody near it when it breaks. You might find a couple
of videos instructive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVO4_hUvFsc
How instructive is a video that shows that they couldn't get the PVC to
shatter until they battered it numerous times with a weight of an unspecified
amount from a height of 12' and then *froze* the frigging thing?
For all we know, it would have shattered at 0 PSI after taking all that
abuse and then being frozen. Heck, for all we know, it would have shattered
the *first time* at 0 PSI once it was frozen. Bad example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1x1UxbD7B0
How instructive is a video of some guy who says nothing more than "Don't
do it" without anything to back up his words other than some videos of PVC
bursting after being subjected to...oh, wait...we have absolutely no idea
what it was subjected to. Bad example.