I was all about air today.
First thing I did was put a ball valve on the outlet of my portable air tank. It had this stupid little wheel that you turn to open the valve - to small to use with gloves on without knocking the unload valve open. Then I mounted the pressure gauge with a 45 degree street ell. It used to come out horizontally and I had to lift the tank up to eye level to see if there was air in pressure in it.
A year or so ago, when I was still planning a shop out in my barn, I bought this 1/2 inch, 50 foot hose reel to use with my 5 hp air compressor. I never took it out of the box. I've since faced reality - I'm not going to have a nice shop out there - so I mounted it in my little shop.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to replace this little wimpy diaphragm compressor with something worthy of that manly hose reel.
