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Support Equipment For PCP/HPA/CO2 and springers ,rams => Support Equipment For PCP/HPA/CO2 => Topic started by: simko on September 07, 2020, 02:50:56 PM

Title: Water separator and then oiler from hand pump to rifle?
Post by: simko on September 07, 2020, 02:50:56 PM

HI Everyone
I am awaiting my first PCP rifle, an AF condor. Anyways as a newbie to the hobby, I decided to go with a hand pump (chinese poisonbee). I was wondering what is a good way to dry the air coming from this pump into my new rifle, I want to get this set up "right" while im starting from scratch. I think there is a gold filter available, is this what i should use? or should i be using the type of filter that fills up with cotton? Also, is an in-line oiler beneficial to this process?

Title: Re: Water separator and then oiler from hand pump to rifle?
Post by: Doug Wall on September 08, 2020, 06:54:42 AM

DO NOT put one of the large gold or black filters on the output of a hand pump! Every extra cc of volume in the output line of the pump has to be pumped to pressure, and adding one of the large gold filters would probably double the number of pump strokes it takes to fill the gun. All of that extra air is lost when you vent the line to disconnect it. At most, you should only have a very small cotton filter in that line. NO OIL!!!! The proper way to dry the air for a hand pump is to have a large volume dryer on the input side of the pump (Not one of the gold filters!). There are lots of threads here about that subject. Use the search function.