Compressor set up

[KimB]

I thought I’d make another post so I can document my progress.
Today I spent about £40 on 6m of copper and a load of little connections to make it work
I started by doing this. It was in a difficult place so I made that first, I put a drain on the bottom.looking at this I think I’m going to twist the 90 bend round the the right a bit. Because I’m making it so the compressor and table can be easily moved I have the copper here, on the other end of the full bore tap is a pipe connector barb thing. That will connect to the bottom of the air cooler.

First loop of the air cooler. I decided to bend as much as I could, looks nicer and is more practical with air flow

Duplicated

Trebled

Put the connection for the regulator on top
And at the bottom left you can see the connection for the compressor in I have high flow quick connector to go on there so I can move the bench quickly and easily.

Just finally, regulator on I am missing two brass reducers on the Reg and one on the inlet feed. I’ll pick that up next week and finish this up. It’s come out well I think.

 

[Lewis_RX8]

Looks good, you could even say its a modern art piece

 

[gordon stephenson]

Really nice job,

 

[slim_boy_fat]

If you fitted a mouthpiece to that, you could get a decent tune from it.

 

[maz0]

Looks great. Will be joining you soon, just ran a 32amp cable to the garage last night for my big compressor. Keep us updated so I can copy your components and setup

 

[gaz1]

thats a really nice job there kim

you havent even put a ton of solder on the fittings like diyers do either really close to a pros job as a plumber can be

nice work with the pipe bender as well

 

[addjunkie]

Nice work, if you havent already got one, you want a drain actually on the bottom of the tank, if your running a compressor hard its surprising how much actually drops out in the tank. Id extend it for easy access too.

 

[KimB]

thats a really nice job there kim

you havent even put a ton of solder on the fittings like diyers do either really close to a pros job as a plumber can be

nice work with the pipe bender as well

Thanks Gaz, I have had a lot of practice on the house haha. I watched loads of YouTube videos and practiced before making a meal out of it. The house plumbing is a work of art but it’s all hidden

Nice work, if you havent already got one, you want a drain actually on the bottom of the tank, if your running a compressor hard its surprising how much actually drops out in the tank. Id extend it for easy access too.

It does have one buts it’s not great. When I picked it up I had to drain maybe 5l of water out of it If the tank every rots through I’ll just buy a matching new one so everything can be switched about

 

[KimB]

So I have finished putting this last couple connectors on and the air dryer all worked. I decided to quickly make a compressor tool rack. Nothing special, took all of about an hour.
Marked out, drilled some holes and using a jigsaw and quick square I cut the slots. Then filed each hole till it was the width of the hole. Which is 10mm on the hi flow PCL fitting.
I then took an old 45deg router bit with one of the bearings on the bottom. I used that to chamfer all of the edges.

Then folded it in my small bender I made and screwed it to the wall