Re: Compressed Air Dryer

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Nov 29 2005 - 08:08:31 PST


At 7:08 AM -0800 11/29/05, Mark W wrote:
>Does anyone have any ideas for building a home made
>compressed air dryer. I need to do some sandblasting
>and I always have problems with moisture from the
>compressor getting to the sandblaster. I did take a
>large coil of copper pipe which is between my
>compressor outlet and the tank and I think this helps,
>but I would like to build something, maybe that water
>cools a heat exchanger. There are expensive
>commericial coolers that use a compressor like an air
>conditioner that dry the air, but I'm looking for
>something affordable.

Put in a drip leg or two as well. I put a gate valve at the bottom of my second one and a ball cock valve at the first one right after the air leaves the tank.

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