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| | | | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 453 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 453 | After days on end of sandblasting and being confronted with moisture in the air stream clogging up the nozzle, I finally plumbed in a heatless air dryer. Oh-My! I am a sandblasting fool!
LET THE SAND FLY! | | | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats | | Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 | Next you will want to add an automatic oiler on the tool lines, then coalescing filters on the spray lines...then you will get two of the lines mixed up and spray with a line on the auto-oiler.....wait, that was me.
Seriously, I would recommend building a header manifold and putting an auto-oiler on one line for air tools in addition to your air drier. Just mark the tool line to keep separate from the sand blast and spray lines. it will keep the bearings in the die grinders a lot longer.
Scott
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 267 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 267 | Next you will want to add an automatic oiler on the tool lines, then coalescing filters on the spray lines...then you will get two of the lines mixed up and spray with a line on the auto-oiler.....wait, that was me.
Seriously, I would recommend building a header manifold and putting an auto-oiler on one line for air tools in addition to your air drier. Just mark the tool line to keep separate from the sand blast and spray lines. it will keep the bearings in the die grinders a lot longer.
Scott Red hose dried blue hose blue hose dried and oiled saves a lot of grief every time tom
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | I was under the impression that a lubricator (oiler) had to be located not to darned far from the device it was to lubricate. The oil mist will only be carried a short distance before it falls out of the air and coats the inside of the hose or pipe.
A 20' 3/8th airline would be WAY to long for a lubricator to be effective. If you keep a small squirt bottle of air tool oil handy, you can oil the tool immediately before using it, and it will get to where it belongs.
Having dirty oily air and clean air hanging around in various hoses would lead to inevitable disaster...for me anyway.
Stuart | | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 60 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 60 | I'll second Atomarc, haveing a dirty oily air hose is a disaster waiting to happen. all it take is one of the kids grabbing the "clean" air hose and connecting it to the oiler when they are airing up their bike tire to ruin everything.
Gary,
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 13 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 13 | Which type of dryer are you using? For my plasma cutter I'm using a canister with a toilet paper type filter. I know several places that don't buy the replacement filters, but just use toilet paper.
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