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1. [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: malaboge@aol.com; Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:18:20 -0400 (EDT); Fellow shop dwellersb& I think I may have solved the drought problems for any small countryb&just turn my compressor on and drain the water! Seriously, Ib ve got several drains and a large water sepa; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00064.html (7,648 bytes)
2. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: "Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz@cablespeed.com>; Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:03:53 -0400; I suspect your piston rings are badly worn......Unless your humidity has been exceptionally high..... Don't try to paint anything in this condition.... _______________________________________________; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00077.html (7,326 bytes)
3. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: "Elton E. (Tony) Clark" <eltonclark@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:08:22 -0500; There is a pleasant solution! My 1800 sq ft insulated shop is cooled by a 5 ton A/C unit which sucks the moisture level down to as little as 10% on my cheap humidity meter. I only run the A/C when I'; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00078.html (9,386 bytes)
4. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: malaboge@aol.com; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:07:32 -0400 (EDT); Hmmm...interesting hypothesis The weather here is HOT...but then that's not anything new round here. I try to do the "heavy lifting", compressor-wise, early in the AM when its only in the 80's...no i; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00079.html (8,166 bytes)
5. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: "Eric J Russell" <ejrussell@mebtel.net>; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:26:45 -0400; If the rings were worn, it seems to me that the problem you'd see is oil in the air, not water. Are you sure it is water coming out? If indeed it is water, how are your air lines plumbed? There shoul; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00080.html (8,070 bytes)
6. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:39:40 -0400; try in Humidity at a particular time of day isn't the problem. The humidity may change, but the moisture in the air remains the same. As the air heats up, its capacity to hold water increases -- thus; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00081.html (8,623 bytes)
7. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: "Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz@cablespeed.com>; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:53:22 -0400; Why not try an old fashioned compression test? Disconnect the pipe going into the tank and hold a compression tester to it tightly. Have somebody turn on the compressor and try to hold on. In order t; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00082.html (8,001 bytes)
8. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: malaboge@aol.com; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:12:51 -0400 (EDT); Yeah its definitely water... I run the air out of the tank into a "maze" of vertical pipes with drains at the bottom of each run, and yes the hose comes off at the top of the last vertical pipe. When; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00083.html (9,674 bytes)
9. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:52:28 -0500; This. turn the compressor off, open the tank stopcock and let all the air and water drain out. When you think it's done, don your eye protection, and probe the stop cock's opening. (Better, remove it; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00085.html (9,120 bytes)
10. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: malaboge@aol.com; Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:11:29 -0400 (EDT); Ok kids...stay tuned, I'm gonna try pullin the drain valves and see what I find...hope its not Godzilla !!! time for a shower... Nick in Nor Cal As for a sudden increase in water in the lines...Are y; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00086.html (9,780 bytes)
11. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:46:56 -0400; Hm...are you sure about that? It's been a long time since my earth science classes, but I seem to remember that as the air heats up, it'll hold more water. So if there was a fixed amount of water ava; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00097.html (10,063 bytes)
12. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:43:04 -0400; Yep. In general. Well, that depends. In many (most?) places, there isn't a ready supply of moisture to be taken up by the atmosphere, beyond plant respiration or something like that. Depends on where; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00098.html (10,169 bytes)
13. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: "Elton E. (Tony) Clark" <eltonclark@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:11:36 -0500; *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 ab; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00099.html (9,234 bytes)
14. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:13:23 -0400; Ah. We have standing water all over the place here. You see, we don't 'do' storm sewers here, we just build holding ponds for all that water. Also called 'Florida Mosquito Breeding Pools'. Though, co; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00101.html (9,975 bytes)
15. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:16:48 -0400; 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? ____________; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00102.html (9,411 bytes)
16. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: "Elton E. (Tony) Clark" <eltonclark@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:25:07 -0500; *Saturday, with the big doors open for a few hours, the humidity-meter on my desk at the shop read 42 %.* *Last week, with the shop sealed and with 5 ton of a/c running, the meter was reading 8 - 10%; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00105.html (8,703 bytes)
17. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:31:18 -0400; The humidistat on my desk reads 35% right now, indoor, which, come to think of it, is the lowest I've ever seen it. It's 56% outside right now, also the lowest I remember seeing it. Hm. It was almos; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00106.html (9,070 bytes)
18. Re: [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:57:07 -0500; stage You want to cool it after it's compressed. Cooling the air -- by expanding it to run an air tool, say -- causes the moisture to condense, and spray out the hose. An refrigerated dryer works by; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00107.html (9,146 bytes)
19. [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: malaboge at aol.com (malaboge at aol.com); Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:18:20 -0400 (EDT); Fellow shop dwellersb& I think I may have solved the drought problems for any small countryb&just turn my compressor on and drain the water! Seriously, Ib ve got several drains and a large water sepa; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00186.html (9,040 bytes)
20. [Shop-talk] Run air tools on a water hose? (score: 1): Author: gerrybraz at cablespeed.com (Gerald Brazil); Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:03:53 -0400; I suspect your piston rings are badly worn......Unless your humidity has been exceptionally high..... Don't try to paint anything in this condition....; /html/shop-talk/2011-08/msg00199.html (8,834 bytes)

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