frothingslosh

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Here's an idea that may be of value for those of you that are running separate air tanks for brakes and retracts.

I run a line from each fill valve, and connect them to a T fitting. Then another line from the T and add a fill adapter fitting to the other end. Now, when I fill the tanks, I hook to the fill adaptor coming from the T and fill both tanks at the same time. Eliminates the need to disconnect and re-connect, and with more length on the fill line in the airplane it's a lot easier to hookup the compressor.

Doubt if I'm the first guy to do this, but it saves me a lot of time.

seanreit

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Been doing that since '03, one cheap way to do it without cross contaminating air from one tank to the other is buy a couple of clippard check valves, put them inline.

Since around '05 I changed all to one air system cause I was never having any failures, and Tam's retract valve came out around '06, and when I got that I switched to one valve that does both operations.

That's about as slick as I could get the install.

Cool Tip though!

frothingslosh

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seanreit -

Not sure just what you mean by "cross contaminate", but the 2 valves I hook the T to are both one-way check valves, so a leak or failure in one will not transfer to the other.

I think that may be what you said???

seanreit

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Yup

AndyAndrews

I always use one set of tanks for everything. The brakes, retracts and gear. I see no reason in having separate tanks. Each of those systems will all work on the same pressure.

Andy