[Mike Ray]

Hello all!!

I finally got all my hardware stuff worked out for my air system...sorta. The guy at IR gave me a bunch of 15.25 mm collars I have got to go swap for 22 mm. 40 miles to their office..ticks me off. I talked with him for over an hour and right when I was paying I remebered I needed more stand off mounts and when he went to the back he grabbed the wrong ones and I did not notice because he had put them in a bag already...

Based on my numbers I have about $1000.00 tied up in the air system so far. I did not expect it to run this much, but I want to have good clean dry air.

Here are some shots from today. I did all the pipe plumbing in the pictures in about 3 hours.

I should be able to get the long runs around to my torch and the numatics on the DT table in a few days. I'll post some shots when I get to that point.

I have a shot of the air filter hardware and I was able to take a lot of pieces out becuase the mounts fit my compression hoses.

The compression hoses are 3 foot high pressure hydraulic lines I had made at Napa. Thes were about 35.00 each. I did a flex bushing on one end. If I were doing it again, I would spend a little extra and do flex fittings on both ends. The ends going to or from the filters fixed and had to be screwed on before the assembly was mounted.

I also got the new torch mount from DT. I saw it in the shop when I picked my system up. It did not click to me which one it was unit I opened the box. I'll shoot some pics as I put it on the system. More later on that.