New airline?

[Slow]

Airline is past its best and has had the end trimmed off probably 15 times now. Replacement is due!

Garage is a double garage about 8m long and often gets air used in the 2 spots in front of that too.

Currently compressor is on back wall, it goes up and over through the roof and back down in the front corner where 7m or so is coiled up hanging on the wall.

Looking to neaten this up a bit while replacing the line basically.

My current plan is run it up and over like before but end in a double connection between the garage doors (pair of single doors with 2 foot of wood between). At that point I am unsure if I should get one of those retractable hoses or just the big coils that stretch. Had enough of tidying up my line and hanging it up to always come back off tangled.

See any issues with this plan?

If not what is a good hose or are even the cheap Chinese ones usable these days? Not a professional garage so doesn’t have to be anything mega.

[tapkaJohnD]

Bought mine (reel and curly-wirly) from MachineMart, and very satisfied.

[kambites]

I have mine running along the centre of the garage, then branching out to 4 sockets, two on each side of the garage. Then I just use plug a short piece of hose into whichever socket is most convenient for the job I'm doing. This also has the advantage that I can have multiple tools all plugged in at once.

[Chris32345]

Run a hard line up and over the wall then have a sort section of hose shoud give improved pressure but also more work then just running a hose all the way

[blueg33]

Didn't look at which part of the forum this was in , and was expecting a Freddie Laker wannabe thread

disappointed

[Slow]

Any reason not to order the draper stuff from toolstation and use that?

Easy to return vs a online order.

[kambites]

Chris32345 said:

Run a hard line up and over the wall then have a sort section of hose shoud give improved pressure but also more work then just running a hose all the way

I used 15mm copper water pipes for most of mine.

[Belle427]

Retractable reel from machine mart here too, enough length on it to cover most bases.

[S6PNJ]

kambites said:

I used 15mm copper water pipes for most of mine.

What did you use to make the connection from 15mm copper to the airline connector? I have lots of old 22mm (from refurbing my house) and need to run a fixed airline, so can use (for free plus a few new copper connections and reducing adaptors etc) this if I can fix the connectors to it.

[kambites]

This:


The elbows were just cheap plumbing fittings, the filter and connector have generic BSP threads on them. If you don't want a filter, you could just use a 22mm to 1/4 BSP plumbing fitting and screw the connector unit onto that. I think all the bits came from ebay.

I also have the same setup in my garden shed (which is where the compressor lives to keep the noise down) with a long hose reel connected onto it for spraying/shot-blasting things in the garden.

Edited by kambites on Friday 16th April 08:25

[S6PNJ]

kambites said:

stuff

Brill!! Many thanks!