Champion Quick-Lock Outlet Manifold - 1, 2 and 4 Port Drop Stations

The Champion Quick-Lock outlet manifold is a finished drop station in one part. An extruded aluminum block with a mounting bracket, one, two or four 1/2 in female NPT outlets, and your choice of inlet: a threaded 1/2 in or 3/4 in NPT connection, or a 20mm or 25mm Quick-Lock tube socket that takes the pipe directly.

Compared with building the same station out of a street elbow, a nipple, a tee and a pair of couplers, the manifold is fewer leak paths, less labor, and a tidier wall. The valved versions add an integral shutoff at the inlet, so a bay can be isolated for service without closing down the branch that feeds it.

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Model Selection Chart

Every outlet on every manifold is 1/2 in female NPT. Only the inlet and the outlet count change. Champion catalogs the inlet shutoff valve on the tube-inlet versions only; a threaded-inlet manifold is valved by putting a ball valve in the line ahead of it.

Buy the Four Port Even If You Need Two

Look at the list prices. A one-outlet 1/2 in NPT manifold is $58 and a four-outlet is $100, which is $42 for three more ports and the hardest part of the job, mounting it to the wall, already done. Outlets you have not committed yet get an XCQL-MP-08 manifold plug at $13, and when the bay grows you pull a plug instead of taking the station apart.

This is the same argument as leaving capped stubs in the main, and it is the single cheapest thing a plant can do to make an air system easy to change later.

Shared Technical Specifications

Ideal Applications

Bay drop stations in automotive service and collision shops, bench and workstation outlets in fabrication and assembly, feeding a filter regulator lubricator plus a blow gun plus a hose reel off one wall point, tool cribs, paint prep areas, and anywhere a single drop has to serve several things at once without a nest of tees and nipples.

What Goes on the End of a Manifold

The 1/2 in FNPT outlets take whatever the station needs. Common builds:

• An FRL station for a tool that wants clean, regulated, lubricated air
• A quick coupler for hand tools and blow guns
• A hose reel feed
• A pressure gauge, so the operator can see what the station is actually getting
• An automatic drain if the station sits at a low point

Champion catalogs quick couplers, gauges, pet cock drains and NPT plugs in the wider Quick-Lock accessory range and we can quote them alongside.

Feed the Manifold Correctly

Take the drop that feeds a manifold off the top of the main, not the bottom, or use a reduction outlet tee with water trap insert, which handles it inside the fitting. Water runs along the bottom of a compressed air main, and a station fed from underneath will deliver it straight to the tool. Mount the manifold with the outlets pointing down or sideways so condensate cannot sit in an open port.

Building a Complete Quick-Lock System

• Quick-Lock aluminum tubing, 14mm to 63mm
• Equal tees and reduction outlet tees
• Saddle clamp outlets, to add a station to a main already installed
• 90 and 45 degree elbows and street elbows
• Strut, wall and hanging brackets
• Tube cutter, deburring tools, marking gauge and wrench sets

Ordering Notes

• All Quick-Lock products and accessories are NO CANCEL / NO RETURN, per Champion's current price list.
• Freight: freight collect from Huntersville, NC 28078 or Las Vegas, NV 89113.
• Shipping weights: Champion publishes no weight for the Quick-Lock accessory range, so no catalog weight is carried on these variants. We quote freight on the complete package.