dessicant hose...

[Bootlegger]

           Guy's seem's that I read here on the hanger that someone had a dessicant hose that they used to trap excess water , now I can't find the info. I thought that it was at this address tcbglobal.
  Couldn't find it...
  Any help sure will be appreciated...

[Bootlegger]

   Thanks Ty, I'll look into those.. Thanks again....

[Bill Heher]

Harbor Freight also sells a combo Regulator / oiler / water trap that you can put on you air hose. It is usually on sale for $20. Leave the oiler dry and you have a regulator / water trap for spraying.

[Pinecone]

Here it is:

http://www.tcpglobal.com/spraygundepot/itemdetail.aspx?itemno=DEV+130502

The filter traps only remove water droplets.  This reduces the water content down to a very low level.  They also make wall mount systems with replaceable dessicant.

IIRC dessicants can get down to dew points of like -30.

[Bootlegger]

  Guy's I appreciate all the help with this.             

[Steve Helmick]

Most machine shops I've worked in had their air piped up to the ceiling, then down to the floor, with a water drain there. A horizontal leg would be tapped off the down leg about at about chest height. The horizontal leg along the wall would have a rise to it, so that water would drain back to that down leg and the drain. This sort of thinking applies to our use, because it will take a lot of the water out of the air before it gets to your moisture filter. Your ambient humidity is a huge variable and may not be a problem in Tucson...or a real big problem in most of the Midwest, East, and SE.  Steve

[Pinecone]

Remember though, without active moisture control, the air coming out the end will be basically 100% relative humidity. Cooling it ambient helps make sure you don't get droplets spitting out of the gun.

When I finish plumbing my shop for compressed air, I will have a refirgerated dryer after the compressor.  Then a wall mounted dessicant system for painting.