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Is this okay for the air line filter?
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sberry
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fix it.
alcorelli
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Yes. Install it correctly.
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jonesg
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With the way the handle is on my air compressor my filter only fits horizontal and not vertical. Just wondering if that is okay for the filter, or do I need to figure out a different solution.
a short extention or flex hose will get it out of proximity of the handle.
the way it is now will filter particulate(solids) just fine, but water won't settle out like it should. I'd fix it. You just need a ****** long enough to extend it out from the regulator. Not sure what size that is though(1/4"npt, 3/8, 1/2? I can't tell from the pictures.
sberry
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Is there valve ahead of the regulator?
Lucid Moments
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What I would do if I were you would be to take the quick connect off. Extend that out with whatever size fitting you need and a pipe ******. As said previously it is probably either 1/4" npt or 3/8" npt. Then put a ball valve, then you will probably need another ******, but it can be a very short one, then the filter then put the quick connect back on.
I like having a good shut off valve in between the tank outlet and anything else. That way you can leave the tank pressurized if you ever need to work on anything. All of that is likely overkill for your setup, you can decide that. It is just what I would do.
I like having a good shut off valve in between the tank outlet and anything else. That way you can leave the tank pressurized if you ever need to work on anything. All of that is likely overkill for your setup, you can decide that. It is just what I would do.
sberry
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I try not to fuggup some major principle, mod a safety etc but I ain't above doing a little plumbing but I want the valve on the tank.
sberry
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What I would do and what you might do are too different things and there is some proceed at your own risk on some level. What I dont like to do is complicate something that the engineer has went out of his way to simplify. Its not that an hour meter isnt an ok idea but if they needed it they would have put it on but it actually added to safety issues, lots of stuff lke that, auto drain blended with original controls, pipe added, fuggin on/off indicator lamps etc, **** we havnt even thought of people seem to still come up with.
There is a difference in stationary and portable also.
There is a difference in stationary and portable also.
CJ7VFR
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Isn't it better to have a filter that can separate out water, such as the one the OP has shown, to be placed away from the tank, and not right at the tank, due to the air cooling down as it moves thru the air lines?
When I first set up my air compressor in my garage I put a similar filter to the one the OP has shown right at the tank. In that location I never got any water in it, even though I knew there was moisture in the tank because it would come out when I turned the petcock on the bottom of the tank to drain it.
With the filter right at the tank, there was never water inside the filter, but I was always getting moisture coming out of any air tools I was using. So I knew there was moisture in the line as the air cooled the further away it got from the tank.
After awhile I ended up putting a 15 foot length of air hose directly off of the tank, and then put the filter on the end of the 15 foot hose. From there I set up a drop going down to a airline connection point and below that I put a shut off/drain valve.
Once I did that the moisture was accumulating in the filter like is should, and I was getting way less moisture coming out of my tools.
I don't know if what I did was right, but I know it is working now and pulling out a lot of the moisture that it was not doing before when the filter was at the tank.
Jim
When I first set up my air compressor in my garage I put a similar filter to the one the OP has shown right at the tank. In that location I never got any water in it, even though I knew there was moisture in the tank because it would come out when I turned the petcock on the bottom of the tank to drain it.
With the filter right at the tank, there was never water inside the filter, but I was always getting moisture coming out of any air tools I was using. So I knew there was moisture in the line as the air cooled the further away it got from the tank.
After awhile I ended up putting a 15 foot length of air hose directly off of the tank, and then put the filter on the end of the 15 foot hose. From there I set up a drop going down to a airline connection point and below that I put a shut off/drain valve.
Once I did that the moisture was accumulating in the filter like is should, and I was getting way less moisture coming out of my tools.
I don't know if what I did was right, but I know it is working now and pulling out a lot of the moisture that it was not doing before when the filter was at the tank.
Jim
Qualitytools
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Isn't it better to have a filter that can separate out water, such as the one the OP has shown, to be placed away from the tank, and not right at the tank, due to the air cooling down as it moves thru the air lines?
When I first set up my air compressor in my garage I put a similar filter to the one the OP has shown right at the tank. In that location I never got any water in it, even though I knew there was moisture in the tank because it would come out when I turned the petcock on the bottom of the tank to drain it.
With the filter right at the tank, there was never water inside the filter, but I was always getting moisture coming out of any air tools I was using. So I knew there was moisture in the line as the air cooled the further away it got from the tank.
After awhile I ended up putting a 15 foot length of air hose directly off of the tank, and then put the filter on the end of the 15 foot hose. From there I set up a drop going down to a airline connection point and below that I put a shut off/drain valve.
Once I did that the moisture was accumulating in the filter like is should, and I was getting way less moisture coming out of my tools.
I don't know if what I did was right, but I know it is working now and pulling out a lot of the moisture that it was not doing before when the filter was at the tank.
Jim
Interesting, could you share a drawing or a snap shot of your set up please? Thanks
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After awhile I ended up putting a 15 foot length of air hose directly off of the tank, and then put the filter on the end of the 15 foot hose. From there I set up a drop going down to a airline connection point and below that I put a shut off/drain valve.
Once I did that the moisture was accumulating in the filter like is should, and I was getting way less moisture coming out of my tools.
I don't know if what I did was right, but I know it is working now and pulling out a lot of the moisture that it was not doing before when the filter was at the tank.
Jim
Makes perfect sense. I permanently mounted a moisture separator to the underside of the container for spray cans, etc that's a part of my HF 5 drawer tool cart. I like to work outside the door of my garage when the weather's nice as there's no light as good as daylight.
With a separator at the tank outlet I'd get almost no moisture. Now, I run a hose from the compressor out to wherever I've got the cart and plug it into the separator. Another hose stays plugged into the separator outlet and wound up on the end of the cart as my working hose.
Doing cab and wheel arch rust repairs on my pickup, using several different air tools over the course of a few hours, I'd have the bowl of the cart mounted separator half full of water and no visible moisture coming out of the tools. With the separator mounted at the compressor outlet, all of that moisture would've condensed out in the hose and blown out thru the tools as liquid.