...About those "imaginary" compressor explosions....

Righty Tighty said

Sure, if you use your compressor to fill a bicycle tire every other week. I use my compressor almost every day, and usually it cycles many times. When I drain it at the end of the day, water comes out.

There’s a difference in being scared as hell of everything and taking precautions to minimize risk.

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Different use case. So for example, lets say I did a simple job like a brake job, use the impact gun, air ratchet, and because I live in the rust belt, some type of sanding equipment to get some rust off, the compressor cycles 3-4x through the whole thing and I drain it. Not even enough water that you can see it. So no need.

Another thing I did to my own is run an elbow and move the ball valve to where it is easier to reach. That volume of pipe could hold maybe 1 oz of water. Now I'm dealing with humidity in the tank which is unavoidable. Still going to rust eventually any way you look at it. You can see in the tank in the first video that it didn't blow up anywhere near the drain. That tank may not be able to be effectively drained in any case.

When I did my T56 swap I used the compressor for literally hours every day during a fairly humid late summer week, 5 days in a row. 5x the water came out of the water separator in the line to the hose than came out of the tank. Every fall I blow out my lawn sprinklers where it runs for 1.5-2 hours and I get around 0.5-1 oz of water out of it post doing that...when its outside where there is literally water being sprayed into the air.