aluminum intake cosmetics (Sand Blasting)

[Gary Derian]

I plumb an old car A/C condenser in the air line.  For painting cars, I put
a bag of ice on it.  It condenses all the liquid water out of the air.  The
two separators I have fill up quickly.

Gary Derian <gderian at cybergate.net>


>Let me second Jim's comment. Keep the sand Dry! I had a lot
>of problems with my pressurized sandblaster clogging. It was
>caused by moisture in the compressed air. I had a water trap
>on the input to the sandblaster, but it didn't work in the
>humid northeast summers. I moved the compressor to my
>basement, and put 30 feet of copper tubing looped through my
>Basement (usually 10 degrees cooler than the outside temp).
>My water seperator really started to fill up, and my
>sandblaster stopped clogging. Cooling the air really helped
>seperate the water, and gave me dryer air.
>
> Ken
>