Water/Dirt Trap for AirCompressor Line.

[asra]

Gentlemen,To repeat, these are "Secondry" traps, I have been using them for "decades", I have them on all my spray guns from the little "touch Up" gun through to my "Putty" gun, and never have I had any trouble with them, they are to catch the "line condensation" only, there should be fitted to the compressor units main air receiver tank a proper, correct, combined, pressure reducer and water filter trap.These little "Secondry" traps screw directly onto the guns lower handle and the hose screws (or push fits) onto the lower (water release valve) end of the trap, quite often you have to get the correct fitting to suit between the lower part of the trap and the hose, and yes you do have to try and keep them operating no more than 45 degrees from the vertical, I have never had problems in this dept, adjust your work to suit.And one very important piece of maintenance that that the "handyman" never seems to do on a regular basis is the all important "regular" bleeding off of the main receiving tank of water through the tanks lower bleed off valve.Water problems in my experiance comes from lack of "regular proper" maintenance, that is, the continuing purging of all the water "bleed offs", Main receiver, main combined pressure reducer and trap and the "little Secondry" trap.Pete Barsden

[Greg Mitchell]

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[NiqueNaque]

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[asra]

quote:Originally posted by NiqueNaqueWelcomeWOW!!! A one word response from Nick. lol[:0]Cheeky Aussie Paul. []www.firebirdgyros.com

[NiqueNaque]

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[asra]

quote:Originally posted by NiqueNaqueThanksBugger me!!! Another one!!!!Oops, sorry Llewella, for gyros only, I forgot and got carried away!!![]Aussie Paul.[]www.firebirdgyros.com

[Greg Mitchell]

Gents,I have a 1/4" TradeAir Mini Moisture Trap (as shown in pic) mounted vertically via a 90 degree elbow off the back of my TradeAir touch up gun. The valve is to the bottom (as Peter Barsden had suggested logic dictates, Thanks Pete.).Down at the compressor end I now have a regulator/oil and moisture trap. There is very little moisture getting to the secondary mini trap now and this setup works very well.Again, Thanks to all for your help and advice on this.Mitch.www.thebutterflyllc.com

[NiqueNaque]

Greg,Disappointed, where's the pictures???Nick.

[Greg Mitchell]

Two traps as suggested by Pete Barsden, works just fine.The one mounted down at the compressor $40 from Supercheap, the other $12 and mounted on the gun. Note both are mounted in the vertical position and water trap release valves are to the bottom.Image Insert: 54.55

[Greg Mitchell]

Forgot to mention, the large regulator/water and dirt trap is best mounted on a line approx 1 metre long this allows some cooling of the heated air before entering the trap. This was a strong recommendation made by the Sales personnel in a specialty compressor shop. I mounted mine straight off the other reg and tap fittings although I intend moving it when I have made up a length of line and find a suitable mounting position on the compressor.www.thebutterflyllc.com

[NiqueNaque]

Greg,Don't forget to try a large diameter pipe before the filter, if you can persuade a friendly plumber to make a section of 4" pipe about a metre long, cap both ends and put it in vertical with the inlet about 300 mm up from the bottom and the outlet at the very top you'll have a good trap - yes, put a bleed valve in the bottom.If you can silver solder they're a cinch - a metre of type B 4" copper tube, two 4" caps, three 1/2" sockets, sweat it all together and bung a valve in the bottom and the connections for the hoses - away you go! Happy spraying.Regards,Nick.

[asra]

Hey Nick, top idea, thanks. But are we in trouble, this is not gyro related?Graeme.

[NiqueNaque]

Ahhh,Technicality there Graeme... its about gear to make Gyros with, you can argue that your honour..Cheers,Nick.

[asra]

Well then I might want to talk about 'Snap On' spanners that I might purchase to put my gyro together. Where is the line drawn?Pete

[asra]

G,day,It's beginning to look like common sense is going to prevail at last.I look forward to a Forum that will be interesting to visit and onethat represents us in a good light to people around the world.The carry ons that we have been witnessing over the last few monthshas been a pretty poor effort, Guys. Perhaps now, even my Missus will start reading this forum again. She got pretty disgusted with it. She probably wasn't alone there. She likes to read the American Forum and finds the diversity of subjects interesting, me too I wouldn't miss it.She even found the video of the Butterfly thingy with the tricksuspension interesting. She thought that if you you were to come in fast, thats the way to do it. She might be coming around.The other thing is, a thread on those 'Snap On' spanners might bejust the thing to help entertain those poor unfortunates that livein no mans land with no TV. Not saying that they are easily entertained but we here in the civilised world have Dr Who and dont have to walk miles to get the latest Phantom comic.Cheers.Robert DunnMackay. Qld.Growing old is good while it lasts.