Something I wish I had built in...

[NM_Shooter]

I may still find a way to snake some pex around to do this.

In the center of my house I have a closet.  This closet houses all my wiring for CAT, cable, phone, etc.  I am in the process of building in an air handler for my soon to be competed refrigerated air conversion 

Anyway, my wife hates the compressor in the house (go figure) and it is no fun to move around anyway.  Instead, I run a hose through the garage, through an open door, and into where ever I need compressed air to run a tool. 

In retrospect, I wish that I had put a compressed air outlet connection in that closet (and maybe in some other areas in the house).  As much remodel and maintenance as I do that seems to require either staples or nails, it would make things a little easier.

As is, I have this CAT5 everywhere that is now obsolete.  Seems like compressed air is not going to be obsolete for awhile...Sigh....

[firefox]

Assuming that the runs are relatively short. under 100 feet, you will probably find that cat5
can support up to 1 gig.  Bruce

[glenn kangiser]

We used PVC pipe for air lines for year in my other shop.

[paul s]

glen u should never use pvc for air lines if u mean compressed air  when they fail the results are deadly and they do faill pvc is not recommended in any way for compressed air..  i looked into this  years ago to save dollars and it is not a good thing.

is very unsafe

[Willy]

glen u should never use pvc for air lines if u mean compressed air  when they fail the results are deadly and they do faill pvc is not recommended in any way for compressed air..  i looked into this  years ago to save dollars and it is not a good thing.

is very unsafe

I was hooking up a big 20 hp compressor in this shop once that had white PVC for the air lines. After they charged up the system someone bumped the pipe and you should have saw what happen! A big section shattered and sorta exploded inside the shop blowing sharp peices around the worker. Scared the crap out of me when it happen! They do make a heavy wall plactic pipe that will work for air and I think it is green? I have been told the PSI Rating for regular PVC is only for water or fluid pressure and not rated for air pressure due to the danger of explosion of peices off the pipe.  Mark

[glenn kangiser]

Probably a  good point -- the worst I had was a blown off end one time but my son blew up a potato gun with oxygen and acetylene , and it did blow plastic shrapnel all over -- he doesn't do that anymore-- not dead -- just learned his lesson.

The old shop is being disassembled slowly anyway.

[Willy]

Probably a  good point -- the worst I had was a blown off end one time but my son blew up a potato gun with oxygen and acetylene , and it did blow plastic shrapnel all over -- he doesn't do that anymore-- not dead -- just learned his lesson.

The old shop is being disassembled slowly anyway.

They were also using 2 inch PVC and it had a large volume of air inside the pipe compressed to around 150 PSI. Mark

[glenn kangiser]

I was using small pipe and the pressure rating was way above what I was running- seems it was around 315 psi.  I knew of others who had done it at the time.