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Re: Al's Annual Inspection Thread 2015

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Originally Posted by rtfgnow View Post
The pressure relief valve must be attached to the compressor with legal hard (non tube) fittings, so if you chose to install the NPT to plastic plug fitting, it must be past the pressure relief valve.
True... but irrelevant to my question.

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Originally Posted by MrBasse View Post
It comes installed, so you would have to take it off. That sounds like modification to me.

Why don't you want it? It doesn't add much weight, and it gives you an easy adaptation to a tee fitting for the relief valve.
Removing a pre-installed fitting would be like changing the terminal screws on a Victor. Yeah, it's not precisely the original hardware, but from a safety and function perspective it hasn't changed.

The steel coupler pushes a few fittings and a gauge to a spot that's less accessible (and makes the gauge less readable) so it is handy to not have it in place.

The port in the compressor is 1/8NPT, so attaching normal hard-fittings and tees is the same as attaching to the steel part, it just fits into our robot a bit more easily.
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