[EricH]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

No it wasn't, they instructed us at the LRI training the first Saturday of build season that tubing was a legal fitting.

In my book, "tubing" is the flexible air line. "Fitting" is anything that is NOT flexible, but still carries air, and is not otherwise given a specific name (like "gauge"). I don't know what book FIRST used initially, but it sounds like it was their normal "not common lingo" book.

I did catch one team making the same mistake this year; it took them a while to fix it. Due to their design, though, it was about as simple as swapping the compressor valve with the high-side gauge.