comp air filter / dryer unit info help .

[sweetk30]

anyone seen one or know were to get replacement guts ?

and or is it even worth it to redo it ?

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HI-N-DRY

compressed air filter/dryer

by filenco

filter engineering co inc boston mass .

she is heavy cast aluminum with 3 1" pipe thread ports in/out/drain .

the top is aluminum with oring seal and V-band clamp .

 

[gamescastspencer]

If i recall the guts for some are white cubes, about the size of a sugar cube. Not sure where to get them though. I would say it would be worth it to get parts for it.

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[md21722]

That looks as old as Moses. I would just throw it on the scrap pile and invest in something made in the last 40 years.

 

[bsaint]

Super easy to replace. If you can find some sort of mesh sock and fill it with desiccant beads, you're all set.

 

[pcmeiners]

Great find....

As Bsaint states a sock will do, or mesh bag of synthetic fiber. You have a real desiccant dryer, not a wannabe (1 cup of desiccant) drier. Please note this will not take care of all the air your compressor produces. A compressor aftercooler and this would produce some really dry air. If you were to use this in a humid area, like NYC in the summer, alone, you would probably get 6 hours of heavy spray gun use before it needed regeneration. You have the equivalent of a drier costing hundreds, by all means if you want to "throw it on the scrap pile ", send it to me, I already have one about 8 times its capacity, but I could use another.

 

[bsaint]

Im actually building my own air drier. I did all the math at work last week (it was slow) just gotta buy the supplies. I calculated it would need a regen every 8 hours of air running through it at 10cfm and 150 psi with a really humid day and without an aftercooler. Im going to try and figure out how to make a mini hot air purge at 250*F. Also I have a flow switch in my box of junk so it will only purge and regen every 8 hours of air running through it, not every 8 hours.

 

[pcmeiners]

Bsaint...

Got one of these (ac liquid line dryer) in the link below cheap, still have to work on it. Was thinking of regenerating, electrically, but pipe heat bands get pretty expensive, what are you thinking of using for heating? All my projects get expensive real fast.....

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