Cheap,Moisture Separator

[rks1949]

After reading a post on here about a home made moisture filter,I thought I'd try it! After finding that the kitty litter used in it was discontinued,I used some golf (whiffle,practice balls) instead. The idea was as the air rises up through the balls,the moisture would cling to them(they act as baffles). It works really well! It's easy to maintain,you just remove one of the end caps,and drain the water out,you can also remove the end caps and let it dry out on it's own,or use a hair dryer,ect. Don't look at my crummy table,and chairs I have down in the "man cave"! I could buy new ones,but that would cut into my air gun funds! Can't wait for the F8 shoebox/tank to arrive this comming Tuesday! Ron  

[rsterne]

I would recommend you put that close to the ShoeBox.... Having a 25' coiled hose between the shop compressor and your condenser will improve it's moisture removal as the air will have cooled.... You will still have nearly 100% humidity in the air feeding the ShoeBox, however, you will only be removing the liquid water....

Bob

[rks1949]

Bob,it dose have a 25 foot hose between the shop compressor,and the pipe! And it's coiled and hanging under the table. So removing moisture/water vapor from the air,doesn't lower the humidity? The average humidity down here in the family room is about 35%. Ron

[rsterne]

Once you have liquid water, the humidity in the air above that water is basically 100%.... If you compress 20% humidity air to only 85 psi the humidity will be 100% and the water will start to condense out.... Even if you dry that 85 psi air down to 10% humidity, and the raise the pressure to 1000 psi, you will have liquid water again.... Every time you compress the air, the humidity increases because you have the same amount of water in a smaller space....

Bob

[rks1949]

Ok! I thought once the water was seperated it was out of the picture? Thanks,Ron

[possum]

If you want really good DIY ways to remove moisture go to a welders forum and check out what they do for feeding air to their plasma cutters.I have a 3/4 copper radiator I built with a gate valve at the bottom of each loop and then3/4 copper pipe to the outlet I use for plasma air and last but not least a motor guard m60 housing with a m723 cartridge.I have clean dry air.

[rks1949]

I talked to Joe Brancato,on the phone yesterday,about removing moisture from the air using the shoebox compressor. Here's something intresting he told me! He said "HIS" tanks are built without a "dip" tube inside the tank! Most SCBA tanks have a "dip" tube in them. If moisture or water is a concern,just invert the tank and "crack",or "
burp" the valve. If any water is present,it will be expelled,through the hose/valve. That just gave me another reason to use his equipment. Ron

[Mod90]

If you're referring to the tube on the valve, couldn't one just drill a pinhole at the head of the dip tube where it meets the body of the valve threading to achieve the same result?

[Case Stuffer]

I talked to Joe Brancato,on the phone yesterday,about removing moisture from the air using the shoebox compressor. Here's something intresting he told me! He said "HIS" tanks are built without a "dip" tube inside the tank! Most SCBA tanks have a "dip" tube in them. If moisture or water is a concern,just invert the tank and "crack",or "
burp" the valve. If any water is present,it will be expelled,through the hose/valve. That just gave me another reason to use his equipment. Ron

Yes a very old Thread but IMO  an important detail which is rarely mentioned


He said "HIS" tanks are built without a "dip" tube inside the tank! Most SCBA tanks have a "dip" tube in them. If moisture or water is a concern,just invert the tank and "crack",or "
burp" the valve. If any water is present,it will be expelled,through the hose/valve.

I performed this check with my  Joe B. Guppy  from day one ,long before I was aware of drip tubes being part of  SCBA valves.