What is this bucket for??

[danielhv]

Im trying to get ideas of how im going to run my airlines and regulator etc... trying to keep it as neat as possible and like this setup but i dont know what the bucket is for...

[DevDad]

It's a condenser. He was having trouble priming, due to tons of moisture in his air hoses. Humidity, etc., appeared to be the issue.

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Mike

[az_gila]

Did someone set it up to cool the air out of the compressor before it is fed to the tools/spray gun?

I bet the bucket is planned to be filled with cold water....

gil A

[RV8N]

It looks like it is to cool the air from the compressor. In very humid areas, the (hot) compressed air tends to hold moisture.

I knew a guy that used a setup like that to paint his RV. He put coiled copper tubing in a bucket. One end of the tubing was hooked up to the compressor and the other end to his air hose. When he was going to paint, he would put cold water in the bucket to condense the moisture out of the air. He had a water separator/moisture filter on the outlet from the bucket. He said it worked very well.

When I painted my -8, I used a water filter that used a roll of paper. Some people replaced the paper filter with toilet paper and said it worked fine. I took my paper filter out after every time painting and let it air dry. I never had to replace it.

Karl

[hngrflyr]

It is an intercooler to condense the moisture in the air before it goes into the tank. I made a very crude one years ago to eliminate water in my air while painting a car. It worked great.
I'd had to stop in the middle of a nice paint job because the paint gun started spitting water. The commercial water trap I had turned out to be almost useless. My intercooler got the job done.

[danielhv]

geez... just when i think i have everything i need... am i going to need to worry about condensation and stuff or is that only when i get around to painting? I havent even started an RV yet... just getting the garage outfitted... ive got the compressor and reg/filter, just trying to determine how I should hook it up!

[RV8N]

Originally Posted by danielhv

geez... just when i think i have everything i need... am i going to need to worry about condensation and stuff or is that only when i get around to painting? I havent even started an RV yet... just getting the garage outfitted... ive got the compressor and reg/filter, just trying to determine how I should hook it up!

I don't know where Little Elm is but I doubt you have the humidity that we do on the Texas gulf coast. I was about 30 miles from Galveston bay when I painted my -8. I used the Motor Guard JLMM60 that you can find at the following link:

http://www.toolweb.com/AutoBodySuppl...slist&expadd=1

I didn't have a bucket, I just used the above filter. I was careful to drain the compressor tank in between coats of paint and let the filter element air dry over night. I never had moisture in my paint while using this filter. I now use it every time I turn on the compressor because moisture in bad on air tools, particularly rotary tools like die grinders.

Karl

[danielhv]

Originally Posted by RV8N

I don't know where Little Elm is ...
Karl

About 30 miles north of downtown Dallas...

[cytoxin]

filter drier jlmd12-2. or mtn 6125 http://www.toolweb.com/AutoBodySuppl...slist&expadd=1 works great painted many cars with them never had a problem at all. they are good for a paint job or two. there is plenty of humidity here in south carolina.
ive never had much trouble with water but i have my eclipse drier fiilter (cheap)55 feet from the compressor. the hose near the compressor gets water in it all the time. i also should have tapped that from the top of the line.

[LettersFromFlyoverCountry]

I've got a water trap coming out of the tank...and another water trap pretty far downstream -- the other side of the garage actually, just before an oiler. I have no idea whether this has done any good or not.