How to Pipe an Air Compressor

The most efficient way to pipe an air compressor system is with cold water PVC pipe. PVC is inexpensive, easy to cut with a hacksaw, and you can buy any configuration of fittings. Many companies run PVC air lines through their factories. From there they branch them off vertically with feeder lines to provide air to individual workstations. You can run lines in your own garage in one afternoon.

Female brass air coupler
Coil hose, plastic, 24-inches
Two PVC pipes, 3/4-inch, 10 feet long
Hacksaw
Two 90-degree, 3/4-inch elbows
PVC Glue
One 3/4-inch female "T"
Three 3/4 to 1/2-inch threaded couplers

Instructions

- 1
  Screw one 1/2-inch female brass air coupler into the air compressor's outlet valve. It should be sticking straight out from the front of your air compressor.
- 2
  Lay the 10-foot pipe on the floor. Glue a 90-degree elbow on both ends. Cut the pipe in half. Glue a "T" coupler in the middle. Glue the pipe back together using the "T" as the coupler.
- 3
  Cut three pieces of pipe at 36-inches. Glue a 3/4 to 1/2-inch threaded adapter to the ends of all three pieces. Screw a female 1/2-inch brass air hose coupler to each of the adapters. Glue the other ends of the pipe onto the 10-foot pipe onto both ends and the "T" in the middle. You should be looking at a "m' shape on the floor.
- 4
  Lay the assembly in the rafters with the feeder lines extending vertically. Hook individual coil hoses to the ends of the brass air hose couplers.
- 5
  Hook a 24-inch coil hose to the front of the air compressor. Hook the other end to the line coming down from the rafters. Turn on the compressor to fill the line with air.

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