How To Install Shop Air The Best and Cheapest Way
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2020
- Installing a shop air line in my garage. I try to be as specific as possible and give all of the parts and tools that I use to install my air lines. There are a number of different ways this can be done and a number of different materials that can be used as well. I am using 1/2 inch pex pipe with shark bite fittings. I used the 1/2 inch harbor freight air filter. Total price including filter for my shop air was about $150 and that includes the Harbor Freight 1/2 inch air filter. So if you're on a budget this could have some valuable information for you. I picked up most of my materials from Home Depot with the exception of the Kobalt lead in hose which I purchased from Lowes. A lot of the fittings and ball valves I already had on hand so that wasn't factored into the final price.
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Do you still use air in your home garage?
Heck yeah. I love the air tools. There is no great electric substitute for angle grinders and cut off wheels.
Tires need refilled, air is good for cleaning chips out of drill press and bandsaw. Being a pipe welder I'd do it in steel pipe. Would also add lots of volume capabilities as well
Chris Jones o4 Brian,
What do you mean by adding volume? and how do you add volume?? Thanks
@@rodw I know this answer is a little late but both for u and anyone else with this question. the reason it will add volume is the pex pipe or whatever u use to run your compressed air will hold air pressure just like a small tank. so 1' by 200" will add about 10 gallon of air. I know this cause i recently added an exterior air hose reel on my shop and the run i used wasn't big enough with a 100' hose on the reel. spent a lot of time researching why my impact would struggle on it. too much length with not enough supply to it. in other words i needed either bigger hose or a tank right before the hose reel. i have a 30 gallon tank on my compressor and a 5 gallon tank in the corner where my exterior hose reel is. I have a very small shop so all my work is outside thru that hose reel. been thinking of upgrading the feed hose that goes from tank to tank though so thinking of adding this.
Just a note for folks. Regular PEX doesn't require the expensive expander tool that you see here, that is for PEX A which is different than the PEX B that you will find at Home Depot and the like. PEX B crimps require a tool but it can be found quite cheaply if you don't want to use the Sharkbite fittings.
You always need to have a drip leg..befor your air filter....rule of thumb.. or u will be having tool issues. Due to water in the lines.. plex will over time go bad from the inside out ..due to heat..or cold over the yrs..it peels from the inside out..its plastic..folks in 10 yrs you be replacing your air lines..in some cases..I went with blk iron piping..higher costs up front...but will out last our lifetime..ive put in lots of air lines .plumbing..in building s ..and shops.. I'm Simi retired pipefiter..my home shop is piped in America blk iron....love it.. great video..ty...
Nice job! Looks great!
I used a maxline kit to set up my garage a little pricey but came with what I needed
Thank you for the video very informative. I'm looking to set up a shop when I move . I definitely will refer to it. I didn't know you could use PEX pipe. Good to know. Cheers.
Very impressive . I did basically the same thing but i bought a kit on Amazon. For $70.00 . Works great. Also got 2 hose reels 25ft and a 50ft . Great video. #smallenginenation
Great video...looks good.
I have several of the red diablo hoses they have been doing great for over 7 years and still working great like that hose real you got sitting there
Great video brother. Best for use home shop runners. You got my sub
Nice set up...good job bro.. I used brass fittings and aluminum pipe, for two reasons, one.. I wanted a air line just for painting, one huge bowl for mosture, then a filter, pluse a gauge an mini shut off valve and a conector, I also ran another line that can feed oil to my tools and a filter and a valve to keep that line from building up mosture and a connector, I ran everything on the tank, incase I need to move it, witch I dont move very often because its a 80gal tank and very heavy lol
Dude your air compressor set up is nice!!!
Great video and install brian @redemption garage
You will still get condensate in your tank and that can get pushed through your system and condensate will form in your system. If your lines are level it will sit till pushed with air if pitched it will go to low point. Best put auto timer on your tank drain and if you think there maybe water in your lines blow out prior to use. Thank you
Copper or steel for me if I ever run lines for a shop. Would depend on volume if I run copper or steel. Done some buildings professionally at work with up to 4in steel pipe used to carry air through out the building
Hi there just saw the video & loved the setup. I have a question what did you use going from the pex to a female air coupler?
OMG BRIAN !!! How did I miss this video 2 months ago?? I didn't know that PEX Pipe could be used for AIR?? This is a FANTASTIC Video for me. I'm in a Mobile Home and I have a lot of PEX left over from replacing my water lines. Both Red and Blue and 3/4 & 1/2 lines
What size and brand compressor do you have? Looks like a McGraw. When I get ready to do mine, I might have to pick your brain about it. : )) Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and videos Rodney
Amazing that you used shark bite ($$$) over the cheap pex fittings. Yes, the tool isn’t cheap but the stainless clamping tool is cheap ($30) and you can reuse the pipe if you get the removal tool that breaks the clamp then you work a little to get the pipe off the fitting. A box of 100 brass elbows is about $30. 100 stainless clamps is about $15. Shark bite elbows are $7-10 each.
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I no longer shop at HF. Their marketing antics and coupon games was the last straw. For import goods there are too many options online or at Northern, etc. with similar prices. Goodyear hoses are as cheap, etc.
Need to look into this for the garage.
What brand are your stackable small parts bins and where did you get them from?
Good vid bro, FYI you have pex B pipe so no expansion fittings and expensive tools, simple crimp ring and crimpers. My whole shop is 1in and 3/4 in pex. Use a heat gun or torch and straighten it all out as your clamping it. I use 3/4 in hydraulic hose whips as my leader hoses to compressor they are cheap and and a burst rate of 3500 psi. Looking good man
Appreciate you brother. Hey I have a question if I am going to run electric to my garage I want to do it overhead because it is less work and if I leave here I am going to take the wire, box, and everything else with me but if I am running a sub panel from my main box it has 100amp main breaker down there could I run another 100 amp in the box to run that out to the garage? And what wire do you think I need 2 gauge? I would run 2 hots a nuetral and a ground right? And put a grounding rod in the ground outside to run a ground to it too? I am obviously wanting to do it as cheap as possible but I want to do it right and safely first. It is an old box in the basment and like I said it only has 100 amp main breaker so I dont know if that would matter as long as i dont excced it? I would appreciate your advice buddy because I am going to do it soon. I want to have 220 out here, lights, and outlets too. I want to dedicate 20 amp breakers for power tools seperate and I may do a 40 amp and a 50 amp 220 plug too for my heater and other 220 things i have and am gonna get. Sorry for the book brother lol. I appreciate you
@@RedemptionGarage if your house is 100 amps you should run around a 60 to to 70/75 amp breaker. Even at 60 or 75 amps you can run, multiple 20 amp circuits and a 50 all on that same sub panel. If you add up all your circuits the numbers generally equal a hell of a lot more then what your main breaker is. For instance I have a 200 amp service but if you just counted breaker amperage it's close to 440 amps, the deal is your never consuming all that power. At 70/75 amps you can run 4awg copper or 2awg aluminum. Aluminum is a lot cheaper but you need to use noalox on the terminals to beat back oxidation. Also when running a sub panel you need to carry all four wires to the box, power, power, neutral and ground. You can wire called service cable that has everything in it and you can nail or staple it to the house with out conduit. You are all supposed to Insert 2 new ground rods 6 feet apart outside the garage with 6awg copper going between the two up to the sub panel, this wire needs to be one piece not multiple. Since this is a sub panel. All neutral wires and ground wires are supposed to be separated on different terminal bars. You got my email shoot me one and I can help you get it all figured out. I'm working on wiriring my shop right now
I appreciate the info brother and I definitely will!
By the time you pay for those expensive shark bites not sure copper with cheap fittings wouldn’t be less.
How many pex does a pex pipe pipe prior to pexing pipe?
Good info....just too much rambling on about how expensive everything is...
The RapidAir Kits do not use PEX Pipe, it is a HDPE/aluminum core multilayer tubing to withstand the increased pressures. Please let us know how your system fairs over time. Love the channel!
Thanks for the info brother!
should also note that you should NOT use PEX pipe. It's not tested or rated for air. Probably be better off buying their cheap nylon rapidair garage kits instead of piecing together a system using PEX. Probably cheaper as well.
How is this system holding up?
Man I’ve been eyeballing that kobalt quite tech air compressor 😭
Just wondering how this setup is working i thought about doing the same thing I have a bigger air tank a electric 220 shop air compressor but I was thinking about running PEX just wanted to ask. Thanks for any feedback
Tank size or voltage should matter. It’s all about maximum air pressure from what I understand.
Only thing you shouldn't do is reduce it down right away from the compressor. Keep it 1/2 inch all the way for your volume.
How’s dat Firter ?
I run 150psi in my pex. No problems, look out for trolls in the comments that will try and say this is unsafe. I argued with some idiot before when he tried saying "ozone" would ruin the pex. As long as pex isn't hit by direct sunlight it's good.
I'm not sure who told you pex shouldn't be in direct sunlight. It has a UV inhibitor in the polymer. Some plastic fittings will degrade in direct sunlight but pex is fine. The orange pex for boiler systems also has a extra oxygen barrier built into it for even more UV protection.
10 to 15 years of experience told me that pex will not tolerate sunlight. Lifespan is about 18 months for pex in direct sunlight.
@@bradfaught1695 i have 15 to 20 years using pex. I have some that has been currently exposed for over 5 years in direct sunlight with a window magnifying the sunlight, i have seen no failures and very little discoloration. First gen pex had some issues, but if you go read any manufacturer tsb sheets no where do the say avoid direct sunlight. Just for instance think about water heaters in garages or on demand units installed outside. Those are always have the potential to be exposed and houses aren't designed around fixture placement.
Maybe could have saved some cash on the pex cutter and cut it with a oscillating tool or fine blade hacksaw etc.. Those sharkbite fittings are awesome but expensive.. I sweated my copper pipe years ago in my house but now with sharkbite fittings everybody is a plumber.. lol Great job looks good..
Pex pipe cutters on Amazon are $6.99.
There isn't much of a difference between the earthquake xt hose reel or the diablo just a different color the earthquake xt hose reel isn't worth the price in my opinion
The tool you show isn’t for the type of Pex you have. You just needed a simple Pex crimp tool and some crimp rings.
Rapidair is NOT pex pipe it is polypropylene covered inside & outside aluminium pipe
I don't believe PEX is approved for compressed air.