mileshuff wrote:
myredracer wrote:
They don't have an air dryer of any sort and nothing to drain condensed moisture from the lines.
Most shops use a T in the air line with a trap installed. Not completely dry but does remove a considerable amount of water as well as any oil coming from the pump.
No traps anywhere. All plastic piping. No "upturns" at the horizontal run like in this diagram. Nothing to cool the air to remove moisture. The horizontal run around the shop did not appear to have any slope to it (but may have) and the drops at each workstation and piece of equipment dropped vertically from tees with no provision to drain moisture at the bottom before going to the workstations/equipment (ball valve at bottom & straight into equipment/tools. Quite surprising to see a major tire shop have something like this. I just installed a compressor piping system in my home shop and did a lot of research on how to get clean & dry air and found there's a lot more to it than just running a line straight off a compressor to tools.
