Plumber? Not so much

So the other day one of the guys at the office asks if there is a way to plum compressed air to the other side of the building where their work area is  (we currently have a 80 gallon air compressor piped to about 1/3 of the building with Copper pipe.

I had been looking at a Rapidair system for the home shop so I looked and worked out a system that would work for what they are trying to do.  200' of hose, 4 air drops, and some fittings.

The kit was easy to put together, running the hose, adding "T"'s and adaptors and such was great and in no time I had the easy part done and now I had to add the copper part to the system.

As it turned out I was 50/50 with my copper fittings today.  2 of the ones I did worked, the other 2 leaked like you would not believe.  After working on one of them twice, I ended up having to ask another guy to re-do them for me  (thanks Jason)  Obviously one of my projects need to be a bunch of pipe and copper fittings and I need to sweat joints for awhile until I get the hang of it again.

He got them both right and then I chased all the other fittings for a couple of hours.  (instructions say to use pipe dope on threaded fittings,  they leaked, I had to take them all apart and re-do them with tape instead)

Long story short (too late)  we got the system up and running and it seems to work well.  Guess we will see how it does over time.

Above is the transition from Copper to the Rapid air

Here is one of the "Drops" the line is full pressure and the drop has a regulator on it so each drop can be set to its own pressure

DD