Show me your air line setup

[moparmat2000]

First suggestion - build a shed OUTSIDE of your shop but butted up against it (or at least withing a foot). Insulate the hell out of the shed on the wall facing the shop and put some rigid foam insulation in the shop where the shed is. Put your compressor in the shed and run air lines into your shop. There is nothing like having the compressor go off unexpectedly while you are in the middle of doing something delicate...

I mounted my 60 gallon upright to an aluminum plate with craftsman tool box casters underneath so I can roll it outside the shop door, close the door and let it run when I dont want to hear it run loud.

I also removed the tank drain petcock on the tank, threaded in some straight brass tube, a brass 90° elbow and more brass tube, brass unions, to a ball valve, and a rubber hose I ran through the shop wall.

The water collects in the brass tube, not in the bottom of your tank. Open the valve and blow the water and crud outside.

 

[Evan Dutch]

After working on it here and there every other weekend, I’ve finally finished plumbing my rapid air system. Later on I’ll spilt one of the lines and T it off so that way I can run an air hose reel and hang it from the ceiling in the center of the shop. For now, regular air hoses will work just fine.

 

[charliec]

I've been using my DA sander to remove several layers of paint. Outside air is at 91 F an 11:00 AM with about 65% humidity. DA consumes a lot of air. I have a 60 gal receiver with 5 HP compressor. This all sets me up for a lot of warm air making its way past the filter/seps, saturating my desicant bottle, and eventually discharging water at the tool head just because it makes it that far before it cools enough to condense the water vapor. I don't have this problem when the weather is not so extreme, but it will likely reach 95 F today and trouble ensues. I came up with this "radiator" system to try to solve it. Hope it works. Cool days are in the distant future for my neck of the woods.

 

[589charger]

I like it. Post how it works

 

[charliec]

I even hung a little box fan from the canopy above to cool the piping. So far, I'm catching a lot of moisture in the drips at the bottom of the loops. I have to stop about every 20 minutes and blow the condensate. That's water that used to end up in my desicant can or even at the inlet of my DA. So, successful so far.

 

[dodgedude37]

I like it also, keep us in the loop. As I said in a earlier post you went up before you drop, physics in action.