Guest Anonymous Posted March 28, 2004 Share Posted March 28, 2004 Anyone have any experience with these. I'm tired of wet air and I'm thinking of making one. I figure a dorm size frig full of copper tubing with a drain on the lowest part may work. Tubing could be routed around the coils of the frig to warm the air as it leaves the dryer. Any thoughts? Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bluto Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 Heya mark, thats a very interesting idea.. deffinitly a low buck solution.. Im not sure if this was covered in a previous post but.. Why not just use an off the shelf airdryer? Is it the cost? I know my storage space is a precious commodity for sure.. deffinitly no room for a fridge for airdrying, unless maybe it was doing double duty as a beer cooler =] Do you drain your airtank from the bottom regularly? I saw that you were in NC and I know how humid it gets down there... heh But if you hadnt been draining the water that collects, you would deffinitly notice a diffrence. Good luck either way but if you do make the fridge dryer/beer cooler id love to seee pics and hear how it works out! Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 I do drain the tank, I've tried the in line filtersdryers but on a humid summer day they just don't cut it. If I build a dryer I'll post pics and results. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHO-Z Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Here is a cheap fix. Take a cooler and install several copper loops back and forth in the cooler. Go into the through the side near the top and out near the bottom with the piping going down hill. Install a tee looking down just outside of the cooler to pick up the water or a water bleed/ filter. Dump a bunch of ice in the cooler when you are painting. Plus this gives you a place to keep your beer when working on the project. I have a hose from my compressor to a 10 length of ½” copper pipe mounted on the wall that is up steam of my regulator/filter. The pipe is graded to the filter. I also considered buying some copper baseboard heat sections with fins for extra heat transfer. But what I have has sufficient heat transfer to drop out the moisture. This worked for me in Washington with all of the moisture up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Thanks for the info, great idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 I just finished priming the bare metal on the Z. I used the home made air dryer and had absolutely no moisture in the air. I used a dorm sized frig I had in the basement and 50 ft of .5 inch copper tube. Had 2 gallions of water in the frig as a cold sink. Worked like a charm. No moisture filter at the gun either. Not bad for under 50 bucks. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
80LS1T Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Well from what I understand what you need to do is.... Run atleast 20' feet of metal piping from the air tank/compressor, run it so that it has to go up then back down. Then have a water filter at the end you have your regulator at. What we did was run the pipe up a post in the garage, then make a u-shape, then back down the post on the other side of the stall. This way the air has time to cool and it sure is hard for the water to run uphill. It seems to work really good too. The water filter never really has anywater in it but when we take the hose off the end of the pipe closest to the compressor water comes "pouring out". Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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