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GNAP:
Welp, after months and months of dancing the knife edge, of getting it or leaving it on the shelf at the store, I finally decided to get it. I bought the 3/4" master kit. I contained 100 foot of the semi-stiff 3/4" pvc/aluminum/Teflon tubing, 3 drop stations, 20 hangers/anchors, 2 tees and the assembly/cutting tools.


I ran a 1/2" x 36" hydraulic hose, as my vibration isolator and piped 3 drops in the shop, with 9 available air chuck, with 4 of them connected to my hose reels. The tubing is pretty stiff, making uncurling and measuring for cuts a PITA, but it went together exactly as stated and I had no leaks. The tubing is good for 200 psi and my 2 stage Home Depot sourced Campbell-Hausfeld air compressor shuts off at 175 psi, so I should be okay.


I bought my set from the local Runnings store for about $185 and with the extra parts and the misc nipples and air chuck and the ever present NYS sales tax, I left the store at about $250. The whole system has only 13 of the companies hi-tech special compression joints.


The whole job took about 5 hours, running about 75 of the supplied 100 foot tubing. Most of the time was moving crap in the Machinery Closet, to get to the areas where the drops were going to be located. Fired the system up, soap tested all of the joints, and remade 4 whips, from the drops to the hose reels.


All in all, it looks decent, the parts are well made, I used different mounting straps, we shall see if the stuff lasts an remains leak free.


https://www.rapidairproducts.com/maxline

pep:
 I'd say as cold as it get up there, that weather will sure put the endurance to a test. 

5 hours, you made some good time with a project like that....Curious where does the compressor live in or outdoors?

Pep

GNAP:
In the basement

highland512:
I love the rapid air products but man are they pricey. I was able to pick up nearly 200' of rapid air rigid 3/4" thin wall aluminum pipe. I only paid $15 for all of it but now I think I know why. I went to start buying fittings to put this pipe together and discovered the pipe is actually 20mm O.D., the only place I have been able to find the fittings is from rapidair, unions are msrp $11.98. GNAP, could you price some fittings for me at your retailer? I have not been able to find a retailer locally.

GNAP:
The drop box is roughly $30, fitting are in the $18-$20 range

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