wineslob

Hi all. Me: 51, male, been in the plant maintenence/engineering trade for over 20 years. The job requires that I know machining, welding, pneumatics, industrial electrical, etc.. I can, in one day, go from fix the inkjet printer to fix and weld up the mezzanine the guys just mashed with a forklift to re-pack the measuring cyl. in the filling machine thats leaking I love hunting, fishing, backpacking, and, of course, wine. Location: Nothern Cali, roughly 90 miles north of Sacramento.

Hi, first post here. (I'll put up one in the Introduction area also) I designed and installed the system for the facility I'm in now about 20 years ago. It uses approx 1500 ft of 2" black pipe, 5000ft of 1" black pipe, and 2000 ft of 1/2" black for all the drops. IF you can afford it use a refrigerated drier. HF sells one, but I don't know how the quality is. Put it in before any lines that go out to work areas. The reason is, once you have water in the air and past the storage tank, it is VERY difficult to remove. The system we use is a 100 HP IR rotary screw machine(rated at 450 cfm @ 100 psi). It feeds directly into a VanAir drier and then goes through a coalescing filter @ 30 microns. Our air IS dry and clean, whats required for air tools, motors, etc.. to live a long life. If you can't use a drier use an auto-draining coalescing filter. It's better than nothing. Wright-Austin makes some as does Lan-Air. Both work quite well. Here's a good source: Air Liquid Separators for 99% Removal of Entrained Moisture Droplets 10 Microns and Larger