Something a lot of us construction owners have had to learn the hard way. Rattling off-road all day really beats up our trucks.

As an off road enthusiasts we carried the quick connections for on the trail "quick" repairs. Sometimes the rigs would pop a line in a not so repair friendly place and it needed to be repaired before you can continue. A quick repair fitting and on the road. When you get home in the shop and you can completely clean the area you fix it right. This usually means replacing and rerouting the air line with all new compression fittings.

The Mike Holmes of logging. "Make it right"

The best airline fittings I've ever seen in use are the Voss 230 push in connectors, with the correct nylon hoses they never leak at the joint with the hose, and the threaded part of the connector can be resealed with new o rings if it ever does leak. It does require a special mandrel tool to fit the fitting to the air line, but once it's fitted you'll never need to remove it, and only need a spanner to change the O rings in the unlikely event they start to leak. They're used by Mercedes benz on the unimog air systems, and I've seen even 50 or 60 year old trucks still using all original air fittings.

I think Quick connect fittings have a place in roadside repair, because if you're on a job just pop the fitting in and then you're back doing your job and it will be good enough for the rest of the day, then you fix it right (If you want to fix it right the first time go right ahead, but depending on the road it might be safer to just do the quick connect)

I worked in air pressure for the phone company and your exactly right.

During my past 7 years as pretty much a handyman doing kind of everything, my boss asked me how to reduce cost of parts for everything I do around the workplace. I told him "Stop buying junk tools and parts, buy the good ones and you don't have to buy new stuff every month." He did not like that idea. I told him that he can find a new handyman.

Compression fitting, they are long term and are field replaceable with simple tools too.

As a commercial driver I learned something from this video. I always wondered why the air tanks in any vehicle with air brakes would empty out when sitting parked. Now I know one possible reason.

I've had plenty of compression fittings that simply would not come apart in the field. Also, oftentimes, there is not enough room to get a wrench on them, so i end up cutting the line and replacing the fitting anyway. I actually prefer the swivel 90° quick connects in a lot of applications. If the hose won't come out easy, you can just spin the fitting and remove it with the hose attached, and they use a fairly small wrench size. In my application, a little tiny leak doesn't matter because our compressor basically runs non-stop all day anyway, and we drain all our tanks at night.

I love these short clips that give good advice that matters. Nice job, keep it up.

Ferrule. Plastic air lines also need a brass insert to keep the line from collapsing

A lot of manufacturers like quick connects for the coolant lines, too. And molded plastic vacuum tubes. Those all get so brittle over time that they aren't very useful after even a couple years.

Couldn't agree more !!!

I was with you right up to about the last line. "nobody thinks of" was incorrect. It is a little thing that could make a truck last a lot longer or alternatively make the company about 25 cents more and buyer beware.

I use push connectors on tight hard to reach spots

Agree 100%

I outfit custom installs be it fixed man portable or vehicular for the military and civilian markets. If it rolls on a road it humps them ruts dunes or ditches on the dirt mud or snow off road; it still needs to be built right to go the distance period.

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You forgot to mention that quick connects also occasionally lose their holding power and let the airline come out. Seems to be especially be the larger ones.

amen

What happened to the video posted today? Making Topsy Road Legal: Edison Motors' Journey to Truck Manufacturing I opened it this morning before work but now when I want to watch it, it's gone.

Are you putting proper electric axles on Carl? With a real retrofit over the proof of concept?

Quick connects are great, just not for the trucking industry. Quick connects is what you'd see in a factory for air operated machines. Great to quickly replace valves and such when you have 5 huge compressors keeping everything pressurized 24/7 not for a truck that sits overnight with the compressor off.

Quick connects are short term repairs in a pinch at best. Always compression fittings! By the time you have issues with a compression fitting the line is junk.

I didn't know they made quick connects directly to the air line . I've only seen compression adapted to a quick connect. Different industries I guess

Fix it rite and your not broke down 5 mins away from shop 🙂

Tbh that orange line would leak from the stress it was under.

You don’t have to take the compression fitting apart to install the air line just push it in then tighten

Quick connect fittting are for air tools and think that you change often.

Do you guys plan to go public?

@timmycarey1958

3 ай бұрын

I want to buy shares too.

@my_channel_44

3 ай бұрын

When you go public, is when you lose control of your company.

@HighIQRetard

3 ай бұрын

I hope they don't, by staying private they can't be forced bought then shitted up

G damn what time do u insomniacs sleep?

Oh so that’s how you do it, I just use bubble gum, zip ties and duct tape

@kensmith5694

3 ай бұрын

Fun fact about duck tape. It really was "duck tape" when it started out. "duck" was a type of cotton fabric that they put glue on to make a strong tape. It only got to be called "duct tape" when some damn fools thought it would be good to hold ducts together. It failed in just a few years and is now banned in most places. In the aircraft industry it is called 100 MPH tape.