Compressed Air Dryer

[Danny G]

Harbor freight has a 15% off anything coupon running today that can be used on anything online.

I used it to grab the compressed air dryer Gary so highly talked about for $339.

If you have an ITC membership and have one in store ITC members get 20% of in store today on one item.

[Gary Lewis]

You'll love it.  Set it up and forget it.

[Rembrant]

Is this one of the refrigerated dryers? I am so jealous right now!

I have a tube style dessicant dryer, and it works good enough, but having a proper dryer is the cat's ass, as they say.

We have no dryer at all at work, and you can see the water spraying out of the air chuck nozzle...lol.

[FuzzFace2]

I can make a lot of fin tube dryers for that money and mine worked great when doing body work & painting my truck.
Dave ----

[ArdWrknTrk]

Very nice!  

Congratulations Danny.

[Machspeed]

FuzzFace2 wrote

I can make a lot of fin tube dryers for that money and mine worked great when doing body work & painting my truck.
Dave ----

Davy, you got a picture of your fin tube dryers?

[kramttocs]

Nice purchase Danny! Looking forward to hearing your experience with it.

Cory - haha that's a new one for me. Bee's knees and cat's meow, sure. I would question the origin but I guess 'knees' and 'meows' don't make much more sense...

[FuzzFace2]

Machspeed wrote

FuzzFace2 wrote

I can make a lot of fin tube dryers for that money and mine worked great when doing body work & painting my truck.
Dave ----

Davy, you got a picture of your fin tube dryers?

Sorry being so late ... why yes I do

Air from the compressor comes in on the fitting lower left goes up then back down to a drip leg and the ball valve for draining, then back up and down again to a 2nd drip leg.
Air goes out the fitting about half way down that last leg as any water should fall to that last drip leg.
I made this when I lived in CT and worked out of a vary small 1 car garage and had it bolted to the side of a shelf unit up at the front of the garage.

One day I could not under stand why I was using water tools till I went to check the dryer!
It was like 200* back there because of no air flow and the compressor running.
I opened a window, it went out under the deck of the house, and added a box fan on the shelf blowing over the fins and that did the trick, no more water.

When I moved to NC and got the compressor, dryer and piping set up.

when I painted the truck I did set up a box fan blow across the fins just to make sure I would not get any water. Good thing as I for got to put a filter on the spray gun.

Also at each air hose drop in my garage, I have 5 drops, they also have drip legs.

Dave ----

[ArdWrknTrk]

While a refrigerated dryer is probably the ultimate setup, when I had my shop it was plumbed with copper and pitched at about 4' off the floor.
I'd soldered drop ear ells to a very short riser tee'd up off the loop.
Copper being a good conductor tended to cool it off and the compressor was off in the corner 35' away from even the first coupler.

The fact my 80 compressor didn't cycle often helped a lot of water drop out.

The old Motor Guard toilet paper filters were featured on Lakeside Autobody's YouTube channel this week.
Jerry's born into the business much like Dave.
I like how he keeps it simple for us noobs.

[Rembrant]

kramttocs wrote

Cory - haha that's a new one for me. Bee's knees and cat's meow, sure. I would question the origin but I guess 'knees' and 'meows' don't make much more sense...

Haha...we have all kinds of stupid sayings, and I have no idea where they come from...lol.

[ArdWrknTrk]

"Da Bomb"