Air Dryer?

[zoama]

Motorgaurd M30 or M60 M100 kit only difference between them is inlet/outlet size. All use the same filter...these kits come with one in the housing plus two spares http://www.tooltopia.com/motorguard-m45.aspx

[Rodsmachineshop]

thats what i use a motorgaurd since the filters are cheep and they work good

[Rodsmachineshop]

thats a great price with 2 filters

[zoama]

thats a great price with 2 filters

Yep, it's a total of three... one in the housing and two spares. I've done a fair amount of plasma cutting in the past four months and still on the first filter.

[Slartybartfa]

Thanks for the info. I'm off to spend more money. Yay!

[performance]

They are required...if you want your consumables to last...and your torch to be good.

[Rodsmachineshop]

with 3 filters that like getting the filter holder for free at the price thanks going to by buy one for a spare .

[EchoSixMike]

Thanks for the tooltopia link. I wind up ordering from them at least once a month. S/F.....Ken M

[Tacoma747]

I took a dryer off a dental air compressor I got for free (stripped it down), put a regulator/separator in front of it, then the separator on the plasma itself. I have yet to see even a drop of water in either separator, although I KNOW there is moisture in the lines (can feel it when unhooking the line). The dental dryer is just a big dessicant tank, with copper tubing run around another tank many times, and a sort of 'storage' tank. I should take a picture of it, would not be hard to copy if someone wanted to do so.

[everlastsupport]

I took a dryer off a dental air compressor I got for free (stripped it down), put a regulator/separator in front of it, then the separator on the plasma itself. I have yet to see even a drop of water in either separator, although I KNOW there is moisture in the lines (can feel it when unhooking the line). The dental dryer is just a big dessicant tank, with copper tubing run around another tank many times, and a sort of 'storage' tank. I should take a picture of it, would not be hard to copy if someone wanted to do so.

Worth a look if you get time to shoot a picture of it.

[undercut]

As with pretty much any kind of dust, best not to breath in any of the desiccant if there is powder in the canister ....

[Injected65]

That is a great deal from Tooltopia. I'm grabbing one to incorporate into my shop air system. Hopefully I will see some better tool life as well as consumable life on the plasma.

[Tacoma747]

Here is a picture of the dryer. Air goes into separator on far right, out of that into a copper tube that wraps around right side tank (which I *think* is just an empty tank), from there it goes into the bottom of the left tank (through the bottom separator), up through the dessicant, out the top and to the plasma. The fitting coming out the top (of the left tank) has a "T", one side goes to the plasma, the other side goes to a check valve, then to the right tank (no outlet, just a 'dead end' into that tank. Not sure of the purpose behind that though.

[acourtjester]

I welded up 2 one for my buddy, we installed his but he does not use his compressor that much.
Mine still needs to be installed but there are many on the web that use them.

hav fun
Tom

[Tacoma747]

Forgot the pic:

[Rodsmachineshop]

home made filter dryer cheap 95 percent dessicant.