How to Solder Copper Pipe and Building a Hard Pipe Compressed Air Line/Pipe System
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I solder copper pipe together for a simple air line system to get compressed air from my Central Pneumatic (McGraw) 20 gallon air compressor from Harbor Freight to my Central Pneumatic retractable hose reel. It’s a short run right around my door in my shop. Good for shop air and taking outside.
Good job not boring at all thanks for the tips and ideals and using old pipe and materials
Awesome, glad it was useful to someone!
Great work. Not boring at all and most of all showed me how to do some soldering for the future
One of the best soldering videos I've come across. Thank you for your time
Hey thanks for posting this video. I’m getting ready to put up an air hose reel in my workspace and this gave me some good ideas. I also enjoy your other videos.
Awesome, thanks for watching. I originally intended for this to be a much longer run (about 20 feet) but before I started filming the video I decided to just move a couple things and stick it on the other side of the door.
@@DereksWorkshopAndProjects Makes sense. In a perfect world it’d be nice to house the compressor outside of the workspace. Mine is deafening when it’s running. You know like a little outhouse for it on the side of the garage lol. It’s a thought but I’m not sure how practical it would be.
Excellent video. Right to the point. Thanks for this!
Nice work thanks for sharing!
You make it look easy.
I spent years doing it. Plumbing is my trade though I’m no longer in it, so ya I got good at making it quick.
Question. Why not just run 1/4” copper for all the runs instead of breaking it down to 1/4” pipe at connections.
Because I had 3/4 on hand I didn’t have to buy.
I saw that you used teflon tape AND some kind of pipe compound. What did you use, and why both?
Teflon tape and “pipe dope”. Teflon tape does the job and the pipe dope is just another precaution to make sure it’s sealed and there are no leaks.
Running copper for compressed air is dangerous, it's gonna blow eventually.
The copper, work hardens like a coat hanger being bent back and forth. It'll get brittle and crack around fittings and caps I expect.
The small copper lines on compressors have a very different ratio of wall to bore.
I’ve never heard this perspective before. Copper is a soft metal. When it “blows” (if it ever does) it will just open up a hole. It’s not going to send shrapnel everywhere.
@@DereksWorkshopAndProjects A big system, with 20-30ft or more of pipe pressurized, contains a lot of energy. If there is a cap, and the pipe inside, cracks off where the cap ends.
In medical and school systems, with L grade copper, pressurized 24/7 they last years but once you get one crack the whole system is trash.
What copper is bending back and forth? Do you mean how the elbow is sticking out from the wall for the connection?
"promosm" 🤗