[JAKE]

anybody? ive got one that i have had sitting around and am thinkin about makin an aftercooler for my air compressor??? 130psi? i figure pvc pipe handle higher pressures and temps than the compressor can produce. was gonna grind off the barbs and glue a pvc reducing cap from the 3" down to 1.5" that the compressor output has.

 

[Tom S]

I would say that 130psi is way too much.


Tom

 

[RSP]

Me too :badidea:

 

[Short Bus]

yeah thats alot, i wouldnt run that much pressure through an all aluminum ic.

 

[racehauler]

anybody? ive got one that i have had sitting around and am thinkin about makin an aftercooler for my air compressor??? 130psi? i figure pvc pipe handle higher pressures and temps than the compressor can produce. was gonna grind off the barbs and glue a pvc reducing cap from the 3" down to 1.5" that the compressor output has.

Just get some copper tubing and run it back and forth several times on the wall to cool the air. Make a dip a little lower than lowest point of the tubing and T a drain valve in the line. You will cool the air and trap 95% of the moisture at the drain valve.

 

[JAKE]

thats one of the reasons im doin it to catch some of the water. living in the desert before i didnt need an air dryer i do now!! well it was worth an outloud thought

i just figure ive had this ic laying round forever and nobody else wants it

i thought about the copper tubing but the price of 1.5" OUCH!!! i can but an air dryer/aftercooler cheaper

 

[cemeyer]

My plumber buddy used hot water heat, heat exchangers, for one that he built. Worked pretty good.

 

[JAKE]

i tried findin one but no luck, the biggest issue is one thats big enough

 

[racehauler]

1.5" damn that must be one mega huge air compressor!!

 

[JAKE]

yeah its a big ole pig, 25hp motor on it, its like 65cfm at 100psi. it was one i got at a gov surplus auction couldnt pass it up. its on a 200gallon tank it dosnt have to run very much at all. i was trying to get a small rotory screw with the aftercooler and dryer, but this one was way to good of a deal and it only had 35hrs of runtime on it when i got it.

 

[Chris Johnson]

PVC loaded with compressed air is a fragmentary BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When loaded with pressurized liquid the pressure spoke caused by a leak doesn't cause a major problem since liquids can't be compressed. BUT, when a leak happens with compressed air the decompression / compression spikes that bounce around causes the pvc to burst like a ballon with shards of hard plastic fragments killing all within reach.

 

[Short Bus]

uhh do you realize that his is from 2007? lol