Thread: Air Tool Voyage for Beginners

This thread and others have been a mine of information for me, so thanks to all. However I saw one reference to using PVC for a permanent workshop system. This didn't mean much to me until I ran across the following on another forum. So just in case it prevents someone getting injured here it is:

"...Pay attention to this! I've seen PVC pressurized
air systems last for years and work fine, and they
sure are easy and cheap to install. But...

I was working in a shop where one finally blew. It
sent shards 100 feet, with enough force to drive them
though the drywall an inch from my head. That was a
big building, and we were all far away from the pipe
when it happened, but any one of us could have been
facing that way and taken a three-inch dagger of PVC
in the eye. Just luck that we were all uninjured,
except for inhaling the clouds of flying fiberglass
insulation torn loose in the rupture.

My own workspace (and yours, too maybe) is a whole
lot smaller, and anything similar happening there
wouldn't miss much.

If you gotta install air lines on the cheap, or in a
minimal or temporary situation, use rubber air hose.
When it gives, you get a leak, not an explosion..."

Apologies if someone's already pointed this out - but I couldn't just 'not bother' saying something. It scared the bejesus outa me!

Peace!

I know Joe didn't mean to imply this, but just to clarify:

Please note the piping shown in my posts is not PVC. It is blue polypropylene which is specially designed for compressed air.