Rapid Air Maxline Air System Install Speedy's Garage 

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For the hose reels, we add a quick connect to the feed side, that way it’s easily serviceable.

Hose reel- use a quick connect plug and socket on one end of the "whip" supply hose.

Man that was excellent to watch. Your system is way more than I need (or want really)... I was just looking for some info on a smaller compressor and saw your videos and just got hooked watching you explain everything in the first one and ended up watching all 3. Great job... very well thought out and explained... and I'd be happy to eat off the floor of your shop any time.. ;)

thanks for the vid. just finished my install. takes more time than expected but just turned it on and I have zero leak. love it. I have jig and maybe 75 feet of pipe extra for sale, as I have to buy 2 kits.

Great video it was very informative and useful. Plan on using the same airline system set up in my shop. Love that you did a lot of planning & paid a lot of attention to the detail so that you would have install that looked clean. Thank you again for the great video & keep up the great work!

Thank you for sharing. I'm about to install the same system. Your shop is cleaner than my kitchen :)

Awesome video! Very detailed and exactly what I was looking for. Beautiful and clean shop, thanks for sharing!!

That is a very nice setup, you are very fortunate. I would love to have a shop like that, can't wait to see the lift installed.

THANK YOU...for sharing. Great looking garage, fantastic airline install.

Love the planning, definitely gave me some ideas and inspiration for my own air setup, thank you

Thank you so much! Sir..... EXCELLENT HELPFUL VIDEO!! OCD is a gift😁 I bought this kit because of watching you're video a month ago!! Starting install today

Thanks for sharing! Great tips!!!! I just completed the max air install! Excellent system! Pain in ass to straighten out....wish I would of had that jig. I found that the clips help to straighten pipe as you install on wall as well. Milton makes a 3’ flexible compressor whip...one end is 1/2” npt male and one end is female rated 400psi. Works great as well! Planning and layout important! This system is very versatile thank god! Also an extra hand makes it much easier installing on wall or pipe will bend against its own weight especially long runs of pipe. ProTip: I ran an extra 16’ pipe straight up wall and down with ball valve on a T fitting from the ac to allow the air to cool and catch most water prior to my water seperator. Yours turned out good!!!

Outstanding work! Awesome air setup and shop, keep the videos coming!

A three piece pipe union is what you were looking for to connect your lead-in hose. PneumaticPlus, Milton, and a few others also carry air filter regulator combos with up to 1" NPT with either embedded or external gauges. Hope that helps!

An excellent reality base to begin the process... thank you.

Nice job. Ideal pipe thread, 3 threads loose, 3 tight and 3 showing. The factories don’t always cut them perfectly.

You could use the blue whip hose by disconnecting the compression fitting off the 3/4" air line, that acts as your union. Great video, clean shop.

Thanks, this will help me out a lot when I go to do my area. Thanks again for the video.

I am just now installing my air system. I found that tightening the compression fittings to 3/4 turn required a lot of torque. As the nut is tightened the stainless steel taper slides against stainless steel compression ring. Being of similar materials known to gauld. I put a small amount of white greese on both tapered surfaces of the compression ring (be careful to not get any on the pipe) greatly reduce the torque necessary to achieve 3/4 to a full turn. It makes tightening them almost enjoyable.

Bravo mister. Nice setup and planning

Great looking job on your install! And very nice looking shop!

Great video. I also love your garage everything is neat clean and in place. That's a talent I just don't have. I watched all three of your videos on this project. Thanks for sharing

I just installed a Maxline M7500 as well. The answer for that "how do I use this 1/2" to 1/2" non-spin whip" is to simply land one side on the air block, land one side on the hose reel (while it's still off the wall and you can "spin" the entire unit), and then screw it to the wall. You'll have to unscrew it from the wall and try again if you get any leaks. Sometimes it's just as simple as changing your order of operations.

sopey water is all you need to locate your leaks we have semi trucks that sit for weeks and now drop. you don't get no more complicated then those systems lol looks good man

Good video. Thanks for sharing. As I already did my lines with 1” PEX, I would still like the max air set up. Seems to be more user friendly with the blocks.

Very nice. As for the hose reel. I would place it on the wall where I want it. Take it down. Add the hose and therefore still be able to tighten both ends without kinking and then remount the hose reel.

Wow., excellent how-to video. Cool looking shop also!

IDK if it was mentioned, but the "push" type air quick disconnects are nice to just walk up and "plug" a hose into, but they give out with just a little use. Trust me...I sell a 100 of the "pull back" type to 1 "push" type. They just arent reliable. I applaud your install. From design of cabinet to end use....OCD myself and it looks awesome!!! Also...on the whip hose with solid 1/2"NPT on both ends, find a hyd shop. The make ALL kinds of hyd fittings for just this application. Its female NPT on one side and male NPT on the other and it swivels to allow you to tighten it up. They also make reducing fittings and bushings etc......sorry, one more thing for your viewers...some "black pipe" is only rated for 150PSI, now I know there is a safety rating but still not good to use malleable fittings for air...AND NEVER USE Sch 40 PVC, its a bomb waiting to blow

This video was AWESOME brotha.... Thank you

Nice installation video! Thank you!

Im doing the lines in my garage now, and you by far have the best "how to" guide on this system! Btw the hose reel whip is supposed to have a male end so it can attach to a chuck mounted to a wall manifold. Thats why it wont work when threading both ends. (Treat it kinda like a normal air line) Or just have buddy hold the thing and turn the reel, while you thread it at the same time. And then mount it 😆

My favorite part was the end when he panned to his car and said “hey baby” haha Awesome kit & video! I just placed my order.

Nice video, thanks i have been wanting to do this to my garage for a while but was undecided between 1/2" lines or 3/4"

Loving the air installation. Rapidair is a bit dearer here in Australia. Can I make a recommendation, you should add a tap before the whip on the retractable. Cheers Andy

Kick ass shop. Very instructive video.

Nice!! You could have put a union or quick connect at the hose reel connection for easy reel replacement and hook up.

Hey Speedy I have a few German woodworking machines with ping pong instructions. Sure wish you had the same machines along with the install videos. At the same token after watching all 3 vids, I am actually in the process of the Quincy QT5 and your videos couldnt hit me at a better time! Very thorough and mighty quite helpful. OCD at its best! Thanks Man PS, paint that Maxline grey, you know it bothers you

Installing a system right now, haven’t read all the comments, but do not use a tubing cutter (roller cutter) it compresses the cut end just enough that it is hard to push on even though it is reamed. The o rings tear very easy. Also an emt conduit bender is much quicker and easier than the roller straightener. Especially with the larger sizes such as 1”.

The whip hose you roll the whole hose or tighten both sides at the same time. Roll the hose toward the wall compressor side tightens and reverse thread on reel tightens.

Great video! Nice garage!

For all watching and considering this, he did a great job....just some advice, go to your local hyd hose shop and they all all the fittings, bushings, nipples, etc....that you need for the moments in this video where he said he had to buy extra stuff. Hyd fittings are forged(high PSI) and they come in EVERY combination you can imagine. Dont go to a chain outlet, they will rip you off. I built every hose you can imagine for a living and your local joint can help supplement what this kit doesnt include. Great video

Thanks for sharing!

Good job thanks for the links as well

3/4" pipe versus 1/2" pipe isn't 50% more, it is 2.2 times more! look at surface area of the inner diameter. Similar to comparing drainage lines, two 4" pipes does not equal one 8" pipe. Love your shop!

This looks a nice tidy job

A piece of 3/4 inch plywood behind the drops (outlets) and you would have no problems mounting them. Mount the plywood to the wall and mount the outlet to it. Also, your choice of the 3/4 inch piping was a good move. Airflow is substantially better (especially with better quality air tools) and will make all the difference in performance of your tools. Since you intended to use multiple tools at once this is even more important not only for performance of the tools, but in the savings of wear and tear on you compressor. Great video!

Love the air line set up...myself im getting ready to build my hobby shop..im going with the same brand air comp but 80 gal. And for my lift i want a clean shop floor..im going with a globe inground air over oil.2 post lift.full open under its about 8 grand..ya..but i. A clean look.in my garadge.the oil tank will be above ground..at the controls that making my inspector happy my home on 1 acer..lot.again thank u for your. Videos..my air comp will be outside behind the garadge.in a shed..sound proofed. So i dont hear it running.

Nice set-up.

the short piece fo hose included with the kolbolt, is meant to get a quick connect fitting on it so you can move the reel and plug into a splitter or manifold, first attach the quick connect, then you attach it to the reel then connect then using the quick connect, plug into splitter or outlet

Great vid!

Wow!! This is nice!!!

Good video. Your Cresent wrenches will last longer if you use the opposite direction. When you pull with the adjustable part of the wrench opposite of the line of pull, it places the highest load on it and wears the sliding part out. Flip the wrench over and they will last longer.

Awesome video! Just purchased that kit, I’d like to buy that straightner if you still have it

When I connected my hose whip to the air source, I just used a quick connect instead of a swivel joint.

The whip hose, you turn it 4-5 time reverse before installi. Then when you install it will unwine when turning in

Like the old school Toyota dealer color on the walls

That is a pretty system... and an expensive one. I used 3/4 inch schedule 40 pipe and fittings. Easy, cheap and fast. Never had a problem.

You can come over and do my garage!....lol.... your garage is cleaner than a lot of homes I have been in.... super clean!

That should be a loop. So you can have equal pressure at all drops. Also a half inch drop per every 3 feet. For condensation drainage.

sweet ride you got there....so i wanted to go with the 3/4" but your final comment with the 1/2" pipe threw me....I will be running a small sand blast cabinet, air tools, and most importantly...an HVLP so i need to carry the cfm. I live in Europe so anchoring the blocks won't be a problem....a plastic anchor and right into concrete. Thanks for the tutorial

that looks nice.

A short nipple and union into the side of your hose real solves the problem of your short whip hose. I understand this video is 2 years old but maybe it can help others in the future.

You could have always ordered a 3/4 regulator from swagelok. They are the granddaddy of fittings and compression fittings and tubing. Also a word to those who use NPT, or other fittings. Very rarely is PTFE tape/white tube tape/plumbers tape designed to create a seal. It is designed to prevent seizing or frozen threading. NPT threaded fittings are deigned alone to create an air tight seal. The taper on NPT threads allow them to create that seal when torqued. The flanks of the threads compress against each other. Only parallel threads require thread seal tape to allow for tighter seals by lubricating the threads to be tightened for a deeper seating.

Being OCD :) Very good and detailed video ! I wish I could hire you to do my garage ! I will do my system this week.

Very nice looking and functional job. Thank you for showing your planning. Your planning made the project outstanding. Do you have the pipe straightener?

Excellent Video Series, love that Quicncy Compressor with the Baldor Electric Motor & V-Twin 4 piston Pump. Speedy would it have just been simple enough just to add a Quick Connect Coupler to one of the ends of the Whip Hose @ the Hose Reel. Allowing for an easy install of the Whip Hose. Just a thought. Maybe you can explain to me if this crossed your mind & if so why you chose "Not" to do this. I might find my self in the same senerio in the near future !! Once again, an Excellent choice in your Compressor & a Excellent Video series. Thanks for Sharing !!

Thats a quite the laboratory you got there. We tried using the plastic air line set up and had nothing but issues with it constantly blowing out. Went back to running 1" air hoses and putting 3 way fittings every 50 feet and tag in that way. Haven't had an issue in 4 years now. How is that Quincy compressor holding up? Thinking of getting one for my personal shop. Thanks!

Mark your pipe before inserting in fitting so you can be sure to get full depth into the fitting.

Great job on the video. I'm considering the same system. Did you sell the jig?

If you use a union for one end of the whip, you'll eliminate that issue.

I would like to get my hands on plans for that straightener jig.

Do you still have that tool to straighten the line out? I am interested in purchasing.

Nice Challenger. What does she have in her 5.7, 6.2 or 6.4? Looks like she's got a Hemi badge. 👍

Thanks for the videos! Answered a lot of questions for me. Last one. Did you sell the straightener?

On the whip hose...don’t you just thread on make/female air hose quick connectors?

you should use a union to connect the hose

Thanks for the video I'm trying to decide if I want 3/4 or 1" for my paint booth

3:25 Double union nut

I want to have a shop like this when I'm older cause my dream is to be a mechanic and have my own shop at home.

I love the shop colors, I painted my shop similar colors and the floor. Looks great! BTW what size compressor are you using?

Hey Buddy Great Video On Your Air Line 🎬 I Use 3/8 Fittings For All My Air Tools More Air Power.,🔩🔧 To Me The 1/4 Air Fittings Are To Small

Going all milwaukee cordless hardly even use an air compressor anymore only for tires an running a brake bleeder

Speedy.... that connection SHOULD turn on the hose so you can tighten it. its not designed to spin freely, but you should be able to turn it enough on that fitting to get it tight. I've had a couple of different hoses, and they all allowed it to turn.

By the time you get the pipe straightener, it's close to the same cost of black pipe or copper. Wish rapid air would make the straight stick's easier to obtain. Than I would buy there product.

Going with the 3/4 is a way better decision im 22 years old and im looking into runing air in my shop is a 40×60×14 and i think im going to go with 3/4 like my grandpa use to tell me when i use to decide if i wanted to buy just a cheap harbor freight socket set or snap-on he was a diesel machanic at Ryder truck rental for 35 years and he only bought good brand tools he always told me buy once cry once he also use to always tell me when buying equipment or when i purchased my shop i was just going to go with a 30×40×12 but i kept in mind what he use to always tell me and that is you can do small work with big equipment but you cant do big work with small equipment so that why i decided to go with snap-on tools and a bigger shop i mean buying snap-on tools and 40×60×14 hurt my pocket but i defiantly dont regret it you made a damn good decision going with 3/4 pipe

Thanks again for the detailed video! Did you run your long runs at any type of downward angle to reduce water? Are you getting any water at the drain valves? I saw one guy ran his piping at baseboard level and his air drops actually ran up 3-4 feet to keep water out of his air fittings. Your thoughts?

Interesting that it’s 3/4” pipe, but the connectors are narrowed down to what looks like 1/2”. So you’re going to have restrictions all over. Corners have friction and restrictions too, particularly those sharp 90 degree turns. So now you have 3/4” to 1/2” restrictions, and double that on corners. So 3/4” pipe has a little bit more air in the line than 1/2”, but your recovery won’t be that much faster than 1/2” because of these corner and tee connections. I had a commercial film lab, and quite a lot of air lines for the 42 dark rooms and the number of processors and other machinery. There are formulas for calculating how much pressure and air volume you will lose with each fitting. Suffice to say that sharp turns, and restricted fittings make a very big loss. It’s why there are what are called full diameter valves and fittings. I assume they gave 1/2” fittings with 3/4” connections because of price. A couple of “U” drops with a drain valve on the bottom for water deposition and drainage, would have also been good. It’s amazing how many people don’t know about that.

Where did you find the 45 degree fittings shown in the video. This is one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen. Great Job.

Question for everyone Is there really that much difference in performance between the 1/2" and the 3/4" lines?

Anybody have plans on how to build that straightener jig?

This is an awesome video and shop. Whats the dimensions of your shoo if you don't mind. Seems like you have plenty of usable space

Hello Speedy do you recall the site you found the plans for the straightener or do you have plans you could share?

I found that the cutter wasn't making a straight cut so I used a standard tubing cutter

curious what compressor and size you are using. Also wondered how you ventilate the compressor room? IS it just open at the top and if so does that really knock the noise down?

How do you keep your floor looking so nice? I'm pretty OCD also, so I think you would have some good tips for me.

Good god. That garage though! Why don't you try cleaning that mess up! Maybe install a couple lights or something!

I like your rollers for straightening the tubing. Did you build that jig?

Planning on doing the same setup in my garage but do have a question on the flooring. What paint or coating is that on the garage floor?

Great video and explanation. As a follow up how has the system been holding up and would you still switch to 1-2” if you had to do it again?