On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, David Hillman wrote:
> Do not ever buy this product. Do not allow anyone you know ( or, at
> least, like ) to buy it. Do not believe anything on that website, except the
> price ( and the 'master kit' only has about half what you need for a very
> minimal install ).
>
> I should've just used regular copper, it would've been so much easier and
> faster, and cheaper, too I think.
>
> I might even tear this crap down, eat the $200, and replace it with
> copper.
One last update... Friday morning, I decided to rip out the
nearly-finished Rapid Air install, and replace with copper.
Now I regret buying that Rapid Air crap even more. The copper was so
much easier to install, it's not funny. I used a mix of Sharkbite
fittings ( which cost only a little more than the cheap plastic Rapid Air
fittings ) and sweated fittings. Finished the whole thing ( 80 foot loop
with five drops ) over the weekend, and didn't spend more than 5 hours on
it either day. That includes some time to tear down the Rapid Air, box
it up, and post it on Craigslist ;) No leaks, except for the cheap 5-way
manifold that I bought from Northern Tool.
For what it's worth, the Rapid Air kit, plus the extras I needed and
shipping, ran me around $175. I spent over a month trying to install it,
mainly because of the tubing's memory.
The copper cost about $250 ( would've been a little more had I not
already had a torch, pipe cutter, etc ), picked up from the orange box,
and like I said, installed in an easy weekend. I could've saved $40 by
using thin-wall M, but I went with blue type L.
I can't think of any reason not to use copper, to be honest. I can
think of many reasons not to use Rapid Air ;)
--
David Hillman
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