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[Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose?

Subject: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose?
From: scott.hall.personal at gmail.com (Scott Hall)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:16:48 -0400
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My thought was that you'd want to try and dry the air after it was 
heated?  Or rather that cooling it rapidly after the heat from the 
compression stage might be easier and more effective?

On 8/15/2011 1:11 PM, Elton E. (Tony) Clark wrote:
> *I never did it but I once thought of rigging a shop-made*
> *drier in my air system using bulk calcium chloride.  CC is extremely good
> at absorbing water from air; they use it on dirt race tracks to absorb water
> enough water to control dust.  We once bought it from a Coca-Cola bottling
> plants*
> *or concrete bulk plants **for cheap in 100 pound sacks.*
> **
> *I was thinking I could use an old air tank or compressor tank plumbed in
> the air system,  down-stream from all the lines and drains for use only in
> moisture critical applications: painting and such.*
> **
> *One would have to plumb the air to waft through the CC*
> *and provide a drain for collected moisture.  I guess it could be used on
> the intake side of the compressor as well; wouldn't need a pressure vessel
> in that case.*

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