Air dryer?

YotaOnRocks

YotaOnRocks

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Wife got me a sandblasting cabinet for christmas and was wondering what some of you use for keeping the air dry. Did some looking online and all I found was people talking about $400 refrigerated units and figured there had to be a cheaper solution for me. I also bought a cheap hvlp gun not long ago so would also use it for painting. Let me know what you use or recommend. And if it matters I have a 60 gal IR compressor. Thanks in Advance
 
Many years ago, I gave iirc fiddy bucks for an air dryer...used from a paint shop. Heavy steel construction (walls 5/16+"). Uses silica gel filter cartridges (about 8 of them, maybe 12" high, 3" dia.). Automatic drain on the bottom. Works great, I think what really makes it work is the air gets a chance to cool coming from from the compressor, and the water condenses out.
 
Blaze you talking about the little red disposable ones?
 
Refrig units are sweet, and the prices are really coming down. If you use your junk a lot, it may pay for itself before too long. If you research passive dryers, they get expensive quick! A good dessicant dryer can run well over $100, a good filter is about $80, plumbing to get them together, etc. Then you have filters to replace. It adds up. We've been running a refrig unit at work for a few years now, and we love it. They get dry air to paint on the far end of the shop, 105' or so away. It works really well and has required little to no maintenance. It's big, though. I guess that's your trade off.
 
Well I'm probably looking at using the sand blaster maybe once every couple weeks and then and maybe painting something once or twice a year at most. Was hoping for something kind of small and cheap.
 
The key is to get them away from the compressor, most high end seperators recomend 75 feet down line. When I plumbed my hous we went uo the wall to the other end of the garage then droped to floor, left enough space to mount the seperator then back up to waist height with my dis. line. The keys are distance and keeping the seperator the lowest point in the system so it acts like a pea trap....
 
Thanks for the advice guys. On a second note what do you guys use for airline copper, galv, pvc?
 
Yeah I'm in same boat. I only plan to be here a couple more years and can't justify money for copper
 
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