[Shop-talk] The air saga continues...

bjshov8 at tx.rr.com bjshov8 at tx.rr.com
Tue May 31 08:26:33 MDT 2011


My father has a pretty big compressor and tank at his shop, I'd guess at least 100 gal.  He shuts the power off to the compressor at night, the next morning he turns it back on and it comes up to pressure pretty quickly.

> > But, now I'm up against a harder problem.  The system has minor leak(s) 
> > in it.  It's still usable, but when I test it for pressure, it will 
> > bleed down completely in a few hours.
> 
> If it were me, I'd put a valve on the compressor outlet that gets shut 
> off when I'm not out there and call it a day.


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