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alanchang

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Bauer IK12.14 block compressor with Nitrox control system. 16 CFM. 4 4500psi banks for Nitrox and 4 4500psi banks for Air.

Shop air panels at the washing station and the main work bench. With auxiliary low pressure connections for gas boosters.

All parts and tubing made contact with Nitrox are Swagelok 316 stainless steel components and are cleaned for Oxygen service. Hose are rated for Nitrox and has 316 stainless steel fittings.

All NPT are sealed with oxygen tape and Lox 6 oxygen compatible thread sealant and anti-seize compound.

If anyone has anything to suggest or any further rooms for improvement. Please post it here.
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If anyone has anything to suggest or any further rooms for improvement. Please post it here.
1. Fit a wall mounted (mushroom type ) electrical push button emergency Isolator adjacent the exit door. This will save you having to lean over the compressor to isolate in case of emergency $30

2. Fit Fire Extinguisher C02 Type at the same point. At Exit door on the way out. $70

3. Remove the liquid containers that are presently over those electrical sockets and stash them below the sockets due to electrical short risk in case you drop or spill one of the liquid containers over those sockets.

4. Change those flexible hose pigtails at some point for solid SS tubing (not straight but omega or allow some expansion/contraction and pressure change flex) . At the moment when they fail in time your failure point is at eye level unless of course your the tallest man on earth or a midget.

5. Ditto for the existing wall mounted stainless tubing either fit up higher or lower but if you choose lower don't go too low if you get my drift.

6. Those green "Stauff" style tube retainers need to be into solid wall not plasterboard and a couple of rawlplugs again in the event of a tube fitting failure you need to ensure each clamp will remain in the wall and not rip out together with a solid 1/4" OD stainless rod in your face

7. Ensure what is called now a days PPE safety glasses or visor or be willing to duck quick.
 
Is this your personal fill station, or in-use at a shop? Looks great!
 
1. Fit a wall mounted (mushroom type ) electrical push button emergency Isolator adjacent the exit door. This will save you having to lean over the compressor to isolate in case of emergency $30

2. Fit Fire Extinguisher C02 Type at the same point. At Exit door on the way out. $70

3. Remove the liquid containers that are presently over those electrical sockets and stash them below the sockets due to electrical short risk in case you drop or spill one of the liquid containers over those sockets.

4. Change those flexible hose pigtails at some point for solid SS tubing (not straight but omega or allow some expansion/contraction and pressure change flex) . At the moment when they fail in time your failure point is at eye level unless of course your the tallest man on earth or a midget.

5. Ditto for the existing wall mounted stainless tubing either fit up higher or lower but if you choose lower don't go too low if you get my drift.

6. Those green "Stauff" style tube retainers need to be into solid wall not plasterboard and a couple of rawlplugs again in the event of a tube fitting failure you need to ensure each clamp will remain in the wall and not rip out together with a solid 1/4" OD stainless rod in your face

7. Ensure what is called now a days PPE safety glasses or visor or be willing to duck quick.
Thanks for the suggestions.
1. The one behind the compressor is just for oxygen. the one for the whole system is actually on the compressor close to the exit.

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2. The garage has 3 safey stations. Each safety station has a 20lbs/10lbs CO2/Dry chemical extinguisher with an eye wash, a burn kit or a first aid kit. These are not $70 by the way. They're $680 each
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3. Every outlet and appliances are AFCI and GFCI protect.
4. Will do at some point. I just feel like the flex line is easier to maintain/install. Because the floor isn't flat.
5. Not sure why does the wall mounted line has to sit low or high.
6. Thanks. There's actually a 3/4in plywood under all drywall. When the garage was renovated I though about installing things onto the wall so I installed plywood under and drywall over for fire protections and apperiance.
7. PPE is always used in this space. Steel toe boots, high vis jacket, faceshield on a hardhat as well as safety glasses are worn at all time.
 
5. Not sure why does the wall mounted line has to sit low or high.

Looks like you have most things above covered.

One aspect to look into if this is all set up inside your home is the insurance aspects in the event of a fire.

Although I can't comment on American or Canadian insurance providers in the UK we have a requirement of an Insurance assessor in the event of a large claim. They are sent in on the bigger claims to inspect and in effect negate the claim or at the very least reduce the pay out.

The use of a workshop is fine until you get to the level of mechanical and electrical equipment.
This increases the risk of a negated claim and in cases of folk having a welder or soldering process going up to the risks of a siversmith process refining silver for your jewellery hobby you get the picture.

With diving and paint ball etc the use of an air compressor seems to be OK but its when you get into nitrox and trimix that the problem starts and the risks begin to manifold.

Filling scuba cylinders with air using an air compressor is a simple accepted insurance risk under a household policy but mixing or blending gas especially with oxygen is now being classes within the confines of an industrial process and a couple of folk have found themselves without any pay out.

The act of mixing or blending a gas with oxygen is by definition an industrial process.
This it would appear includes partial pressure filling as well as continuous blending despite the variance of risk.

It is further compounded by using an air compressor hence why I keep banging on about read the manufacturers metal label on the compressor it says Air Compressor not nitrox not heliox not oxygen or trimix and you're screwed. Note the fancy green and yellow sticker doesn't cut it with them either.

Further the meal label attached to the block if It has no stated upper oxygen or gas mix limit and so again the insurer reverts back to the recognised standard being that any gas with a percentage of oxygen greater than 23 percent shall be classed as oxygen. And you're screwed again with a rejected household insurance policy with the house gone and living with the in-laws or the street.

(Other interesting examples was a scuba diver in a multi story rented flat and a small scuba compressor, The recharging of electrical scooters using Chinese batteries out of Amazon and eBay and so on )

But in answer to the question why fix the high pressure horizontal lines height. High and Low
This is to avoid in the event of a burst the tube whipping back and taking your face off therefore we tend to mount higher and in the event of mounting the lines lower engineers tend to mount them lower than the junk needed by which to do your part in creating the next of kin. The same level of care goes in mounting cheap Chinese pressure gauges at eye level that are for hydraulic fluids and not Safety Pattern for gases.
 

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