Drain your tank....

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Dad was sitting eating breakfast the other day, heard a loud explosion, didn't think much of it, never heard any sirens, so it must not have been much of anything.

about an hour later he went out to the garage to go somewhere, air compressor is running, no big deal, it does that a few times a day, has for 15+ years..... but it doesn't shut off.

Then he noticed the dark spatter on the back garage door ( drive thru garage ) as he goes over to check on the compressor, the above is what he found.

lifted up and moved the work bench it was under, pulled the air manifold he had made apart, literally pulled the pipe threads out of the manifold.

Draining the tank isn't 100%, but it sure goes a long way toward preventing catastrophic failure.
 
I shut mine off, drain it and all the line drops every night. But i do still think about something like this happening.
 
Gets me thinking about the one in my work truck, Havent drained it in years, drain is clogged, caint get to it the way its mounted in the van.
 
Jason W. said:
Gets me thinking about the one in my work truck, Havent drained it in years, drain is clogged, caint get to it the way its mounted in the van.
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I think thats a standard practice. ( in-accessable drain ) though I did drain mine once last year I think....., no choice but to drain it on the floor and let it run out the side door.
 
I just walked out and drained mine after reading this!
 
I bought a dental compressor off here a few years ago and it has a drier on the way in and out and it auto bleeds the drier after each time the tank fills up I have checked the tank several times always dry as a bone they should all come that way worry free and tons of air I have always been scared of something like this
 
Glad no one standing near it.
 
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