Airline between buildings

Wombat

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BASIS
Location
East yorks
Whats the best way to run airline between two buildings 30m apart? I know people of used blue water pipe then others have said it can shatter.

It will be going through an existing duct so needs to be realtively flexible
 

BuskhillFarm

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Arable Farmer
I’m wanting to do exactly the same. Move the compressor to other shed so I don’t have to hear it rattling away. I think the blue water pipe should be grand. If it’s good enough for water I’d think air be grand
 

KJR

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My local hydraulic man was worried that any pulsing might cause the fittings to be blown off, so it's interesting to hear if anyone has had any problems.
 
Would have thought the problem with blue MDPE pipe would be UV attack and temperature cycling at pipework downstream of compressor discharge if it’s not running constantly. If you have a decent sized receiver and pipes are inside don’t see the problem.
 
My local hydraulic man was worried that any pulsing might cause the fittings to be blown off, so it's interesting to hear if anyone has had any problems.
There will be more pulsing effect when mdpe is carrying water than when used as airline as air is easier to compress than water so will actually cushion pulsing more.
 

tomlad

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Location
nr. preston
On a Garage refurb show on sky , obviously usa , they used to have fits about air line in plastic for it go's brittle and then explodes, but what form of plastic i can't recall. They refitted it all as standard.

I should be running air soon ish so i was wondering same. I have some new black pipe i bought as duct, water pipe prob 25 mm .
 

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