<VV> Air compressor distribution lines

[kaczmarek at charter.net]

> 
> From: Tony Underwood <tonyu at roava.net>
> Date: 2005/11/01 Tue PM 01:18:53 EST
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Air compressor distribution lines
> 
> At 03:40 hours 10/31/2005, UltraMonzaWest at aol.com wrote:
> >All right!  you've convinced me!
> >
> >PVC    cut to length with one stroke of a PVC  shear.......glue with REDHOT
> >and in 45 minutes you're done.....  40 outlets...16 traps.......4
> >coalessers........20 drains....
> >
> >Some folks like to spend time & $$$......for peace of mind??????
> >
> >Anyone ever seen PVC  rupture???     I thought so...........gggggg
> 
> 
> For what it's worth, there is some new stuff available that's cheap, 
> strong, NOT brittle, and able to withstand a lot of pressure.   I 
> tried a trick or two, smacked a piece with a hammer and it didn't 
> shatter, it simply flattened and creased like Lexan.   If you cut it 
> with a "scissors" type cutter, it tends to flatten slightly.   It's 
> fairly ductile stuff.  The contractor guy told me that if it fails 
> from excessive pressure, it splits lengthwise with a "fish mouth" 
> rupture instead of shattering although he also said that it more 
> likely would blow out a coupling before the pipe would rupture seeing 
> as how it would "probably withstand 600 lbs or more before it would 
> actually split", whereupon I bet it would whiplash the hell out of 
> anything close by unless it was securely anchored to the 
> building.    If someone really wanted to plumb air lines with 
> plastic, this stuff sounds like a prospect, and it's cheaper than copper.
> 
> I know nothing about it other than seeing a piece of it (and smacking 
> it with the hammer), tan/beige colored stuff, reminds me of hard 
> vinyl and seems to act like the black plastic flexible water piping I 
> see running underground, the stuff that almost nothing will stick to, 
> although this beige stuff glues together with PVC cement.
> 
> 
> Anybody "in the business" know anything about this stuff, whatever it 
> is...?     All I know is that the contractor guy sold me some of it 
> and my nephew (works for another home construction contractor) 
> installed about 40 feet of it to replace some of the remaining 
> (rusting-dripping) black iron pipe carrying water through my house 
> and he liked it, said it was good stuff.
> 
> I'm not likely to plumb my compressor with the stuff, just thought 
> I'd mention it.   I simply drag long air hoses everywhere.
> 
> 
> tony..     
> 
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