Air compressor line filters. Anyone have one?

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I noticed with my new compressor that it accumulates a LOT of rust colored water in the tank that drains out after every use. Even though I drain the tank. This means that when using air tools sometimes I get a little, not much, but a little moisture spraying out. I came across this
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On ebay. It claims it traps moisture. Anyone use one? Thoughts?
 
Yes I use one. It was around $100 and made by IR. It saves your air tools and you really need one if your spraying paint or really anything. Overtime, the rust and crap in the air will ruin your air tools. Mines a filter, water seperator and oil luber and its a 2 housing set up. Highly rec getting one if your going to be using your comp for work stuff. I also leave my peacock on the tank barely open to let any water drain out of it. All that water just sits in the tank and OVER time will rot out the tank.
 
The filter, regulator, lube set-up is fine for tools, but I wouldn't use the lube system for any paint guns. You will get a mist of lube along with air through your paint gun.
 
RBS said:
The filter, regulator, lube set-up is fine for tools, but I wouldn't use the lube system for any paint guns. You will get a mist of lube along with air through your paint gun.
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If your in to fish eyes in paint the oiler will amaze you. I personally put a few drops of oil in the air tools before I use them. This keeps the oil out of the air lines so I can use my air brush, Devilbiss guns with out fear of fish eyes occurring from oil.

Dave
 
I use a water separator and a coalescing filter. The water separator is a Parker that came with my Nitrogen wand and they recommended the coalescing filter close to the device.
 
Robert8194 said:
I use a water separator and a coalescing filter. The water separator is a Parker that came with my Nitrogen wand and they recommended the coalescing filter close to the device.
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Yeah, IMO the coalescing filter is what you want. What is a nitrogen wand?
 
Robert8194 said:
The Parker Nitrogen Wand is the most economical method I could find to put nitrogen in my tires.
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Holy bejeezus--$1200??? Just think, I can use it to inert the tanks on my F-22, too! Find someone that has a DOT tank of nitrogen, and fill up one of those tire-fill tanks...oh wait...you already have the thing.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Holy bejeezus--$1200??? Just think, I can use it to inert the tanks on my F-22, too! Find someone that has a DOT tank of nitrogen, and fill up one of those tire-fill tanks...oh wait...you already have the thing.
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I looked into the tank option but by the time you buy the tank, regulator and tire chuck, it added up. I got the wand for $999 including shipping. It should last me a lifetime. I don't know if the Nitrogen thing is real but the dealer talked me into putting it in my tires and I don't have time to go back to the dealer any time I need them topped off.
 
Robert8194 said:
I looked into the tank option but by the time you buy the tank, regulator and tire chuck, it added up. I got the wand for $999 including shipping. It should last me a lifetime. I don't know if the Nitrogen thing is real but the dealer talked me into putting it in my tires and I don't have time to go back to the dealer any time I need them topped off.
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The tanks I'm talking about are $50, low pressure tanks. You just need to know someone who uses DOT bottles of nitrogen so you can bleed some off. You can't own DOT tanks--it's all very complicated--you can't transport high pressure gas except in a DOT tank, and you can only own DOT tanks if you are a compressed gas company. So you could lease a tank, but they probably wouldn't want to know you if you only went through one tank a year, and after a few years your wand would wind up cheaper, anyway.

That makes me wonder if you bring one of those $50 tanks to a place with a nitrogen wand or similar if they will fill it up for you for a fee.
 
i used to have one like that. it traps moisture, but not a lot. i built a seperator using 3/4" copper pipe. i ran it up and down the wall next to my compressor and have drains at the bottom of every run. then the air goes through a devilbiss QC3. been workin pretty good. do a google search on homemade compressor water traps/seperators and you'll get a lot of ideas.
no matter how good a system is, it wont keep moisture out of the tank. the pump compressing ( and heating) the air is where the moisture gets built up. it is possible to put a seperator between the pump and tank,too.
 
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