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Re: compressor lines let see them
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Originally Posted by Number21
DO NOT use PVC!! PVC is NOT safe for air. PVC gets brittle with time, and especially with exposure to light. One day it will blow up and kill somebody. PVC manufacturers tell you not to use it with air and it's even against OSHA rules.
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Originally Posted by RanchFlyer
PVC is a waiting grenade. It will rupture at a glue joint, then resulting movement in the tube will cause it to splinter into flying shards of plastic. A machine shop I used to business with experienced this, after 3 years of me warning them. Within a couple of months they were all switched to Legris transair, which is now a Parker product. My suggestion is find a local contractor installing transair or IR simplair, and see if you can buy any excess. Sometimes when I used to bid a big job, we would sell off the extra fittings and tube, at cost or less. Nobody wants to inventory fittings. That's my experience anyways.
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Ouch !!! Thanks for the input guys, I had no idea !
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