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Re: Air Chucks and Blow Guns

To: "Mullen, Tim (IIS)" <Tim.Mullen@ngc.com>
Subject: Re: Air Chucks and Blow Guns
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:37:48 -0400
Mullen, Tim (IIS) wrote:
> Trevor Boicey [mailto:tboicey@brit.ca] wrote:
> 
>>I think it cost me about $40 to do the whole shop at 
>>the local discount tools place. I hear all these 
>>discussions about "PVC versus cast iron for air 
>>lines", but you know, $4 hose works too.
> 
> 
> I did this as a temporary installation in our previous house.  Then when
> we moved to the current house 11 years ago, I mounted the hoses as a
> "temporary fix" again.  I have hoses running to two hose reel in the
> garage, and one of these days "real soon now", I'm going to install 3/4
> inch black pipe...  Of course, that will probably be in my next house...
> :)

   Yep, still waiting for that upgrade day myself...

   No doubt we are losing some pressure down the narrow line, but a lot 
of that can be mitigated by putting a regulator at the end of the hose.

   For non critical apps like blowing off a dusty wheelbarrow, pumping 
up a tire, or impacting a rusty nut off a car... who cares....

   Install the cheap stuff, and upgrade when you start to suffer from 
some noticeable symptoms. It might never happen, and can almost 
guarantee if you plumb four locations in the shop some of them can stay 
that way forever.

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/






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