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Air compressor question
If I'm lucky I may have my shop set up like I dream of in 2022. My compressor is a 50/60? gal. horozontal in it's own little room under a stairway. The farthest from the compressor I have been using the air W/common 1/2 hose is about 50ft., things work fine. Now I bought myself a Christmas present of an airhose reel,(50 ft.) that I've mounted on the wall about 70/80 ft. from the compressor to reach farther outside with.
OK, now the question. I've got a BIG portable air tank, just too big and heavy,(30-35 gal?) to lug around. A friend tells me to hook the portable into the airline just ahead the hose reel as sort of a reserve or I won't have enough volume by the time the air gets from the compressor to the end of the reel hose.
What do you think??
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Thank you for all the response, for right now I'll use the idea that Auer came up with. I found three new rolls of 1/2 hose and I think enough quick couplers in the back shed.
I'll connect them from the compressor to the spare tank then into the hose reel. That way it will be easy to change things and I can use the portable if I have to I'll put it in the loader bucket to carry it.
Murf has a good Idea but the hose isn't going to hurt the checkbook.
Guess what I meant by the 2022 thing is that if you guys are like me no shop will ever be just right, we always are changing something.
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Yes, I apologize for answering and giving recognition to the others and not your response which was there for me to read right away. The Mrs. was ugring me to get off that thing and get ready for Church right then, so my answer was made in haste.
I do have plenty of 1/2 in. black iron pipe that was originally intended to pipe the gas in to the furnace and pipe the air around the building. The gas did get piped in but the compressed air never got done.
There never seems to be an end to the things I want to do to improve the shop but being realistic the things left to do like hardlineing the air, putting in a freight elevator, etc, etc. will probably add little to the value of the building. I've had other buildings from a dirt floor chicken coup on up that were on rented farms that I made do as a shop but this is the second building I've built that was intended from the start to be a shop. I leared a few things from doing them wrong the first time, and still never learned everything I should have.
Frank.
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