 What the heck is the proper quitting time procedure for your compressor? Oh, my woodworkers, Paul Croson here, a small workshop guy. Got a little, this is probably one of the most popular compressors that there are. And I think this is true for any compressor. But then they call this a pancake compressor. You're all done with a day. You've been using this to blow off stuff or to run your pneumatic guns or whatever. And you're ready to quit for the day. Do you just leave this all powered up for tomorrow? I mean that's very, very convenient. Unfortunately, that's wrong. So let me read you a few things from the instruction manual. Instruction manual? You mean that piece of paper that comes with your tools? All right, it's talking about the drain valve K here. It says the drain valve is located at the base of the air tank and is used to drain condensation at the end of each use. At the end of each use. Not at the end of each year, at the end of each use. Under warnings, risk of unsafe operation. Air tanks contain high pressure air. Keep your face and other body parts away from the outlet of the drain. Use eye protection when draining as debris can be kicked up into the face. So not only do you drain it, you protect yourself when you do that. Risk of bursting. Water will condense in the air tank. If not drained, water will corrode and weaken the air tank causing a risk of air tank rupture. So if you never thought it was necessary, now you know better. So sorry to add to your nighttime cleanup routine if you have such a thing. Join those of us who are OCD and develop yourself a checklist and put the draining your compressor every night on that checklist. So here's the proper procedure. Set the on off switch to off. That makes sense because otherwise if you let the air out and it's on, it'll start trying to build back up again. Turn the regulator knob G counter-clockwise to set the outlet pressure to zero. So this is the one that you turn counter-clockwise and then this will drain down to zero. But this one's still full. What's the next step? Remove the air tool or accessory. In other words, it's best to do that when there's no pressure in it. So then you would remove the air tube or the accessory. It's a suitable container under the drain to catch the discharge. We have a drain in the bottom of this right here and we're going to open it up. You will find it will discharge some ugly looking fluid from time to time and some rust if you haven't done this every night like you're supposed to. So just get a little container, a little plastic yogurt cup or something and put that in there to catch it. Now here's a step that a lot of people aren't aware of. You don't just then open that valve. There's too much pressure in there. Pull this ring, this free ring here to pull that down to pretty darn low or all the way to zero. You're not going to get any of the discharge fluid out of that little ring for that. All right, you've got that now emptied. Then start turning this one, this case, and let it drain. Again, you're going to have fluid in the bottom possibly build up and you don't want that splashing up and you don't want it getting your shop floor dirty or your work bench. So release with this little ring here on the side and then put a container to catch the fluid and then open that valve. And that is what you should do every night when you're done using your compressor. Don't do it once a week, don't do it once a month. Do it every night. If you want to be OCD like a few of us. Small workshop guy reminding you you can't stop the waves, but you can learn to serve. Stay safe in your workshop signing off.