copper vs pvc compressor lines?

at my work we also have about 2' piece of tubing drop straight down below a Tee fitting for the quick connects coming out of the walls, at the bottom of this we have a ball valve, and a rubber hose vented outside the building.this way as the heated air cools and condenses it collects in the tube below where your air hose fitting is. periodically you open the ball valve and drain the collected moisture right outside.

i plan on doing this in my shop. i will be sweat fitting a copper pipe manifold and have a flexible line from compressor to the air manifold long enough to move my compressor outside when i am using it. i have a 22V 60 gallon upright i mounted on a 1/2" aluminum plate , and it has some craftsman tool box wheels under the plate to easily move it.


We did our blow off by making a drop that basically looks like a football goal post but the bottom leg was straight down. We also did a ball valve and a hose to the outside like you mentioned. At the mattress company, between the compressor and the galvanized lines we used a hydraulic high pressure line that was made for a Case backhoe front end loader. Lol, the hose was free since my buddy has sold his backhoe and new so why not?

I mounted the horizontal tank compressor on motor mounts for a 1976 F-150 with a 390 to cut down the vibrations since it was upstairs. They really helped a lot.