September 17th, 2010, 08:54 AM
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Re: Air Compressor - Black Iron Pipe ?
Jumping in a little late here. I have used both black iron and Simpleair (or an equal to it). I had hundreds of feet of iron pipe in our old facility. When it was time to add a new press, I went with the aluminum. I was able to split off the iron with adapters and run the aluminum to the new press. When we moved into a new facility a few years ago, I left the black pipe in the old place, but grabbed all the aluminum that wasn't ruined. ( A little flooding problem). Every piece of air equipment is fed with the aluminum pipe. The good and the bad, in my opinion. Black pipe is a lot cheaper...until you have a pipe fitter come in and do all the cutting, threading, and hanging. I can't do any of that myself. With the aluminum, figure out what you need in the way of pipe and fitting. Simply cut it to length, clean up the edges, and put the pieces together with couplings. It's light weight too!. You can also tap into a line if you need another line coming out, for example you want an air hose somewhere. I simple hole, fitting, and you're done. No doubt, it costs more. With only my own on the job experience with it, I ran lines for: three automatic presses, one manual press, coating machine, CTS machine, a couple pumps for ink, 2 stretching tables, and a few extra drop lines just for fun. I can add anywhere I want in about 10 minutes.
The pipe company also claims a higher volume of air flow through a smaller diameter pipe due to the fact that it's polished aluminum.
All that being said, I NEVER got a blessing from any equipment manufacturer saying they would recommend this way of doing it. Never heard anything to the contrary either. I will say, if anyone ever asks me to help them set up a press, I'll STRONGLY recommend aluminum pipe.
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