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  • J’s
    December 20, 2009 at 4:49 am #18087

    i want to see your guys set ups.

    i was lurking threw some forums and some combine with HF and cant remeber the other company names.

    i was looking at a devilbiss for about 200$

    anyone do something in a budget and still get good results?

    Barry Overby
    December 20, 2009 at 6:13 am #18090

    All I use are 2 Astro filter/regulator units that are knockoffs of the sharpe 606 units.

    They were like $40/ea. back when I got ’em, think they’re a little more now.

    Never had any problems, but my compressor doesn’t run much and has an automatic tank drain on it.

    Andy Taylor
    December 20, 2009 at 2:59 pm #18100

    We have a [url=http://www.sata.com/index.php?id=1069&L=11][b]SATA 444[/b] [/url]unit in the booth for final separation and filtration, but most of the hard work is done at the compressor, which has a refrigerated dryer built in.

    Dennis B.
    December 20, 2009 at 9:45 pm #18103

    This is only part of my system but it keeps water out of the paint booth its totally over kill with the rest of the shop system, but I have clean dry air.

    [IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t44/Marvinator/Paintboothpics006Medium.jpg[/IMG]

    J’s
    December 21, 2009 at 3:52 am #18123

    im thinking on getting a devilbiss water trap
    i think its under 200$ dont remeber the model number

    now can i run this trap right out of the compressor to the hose and to the paint gun?

    Andy Taylor
    December 21, 2009 at 11:11 pm #18172

    [b]airhead wrote:[/b]
    [quote]now can i run this trap right out of the compressor to the hose and to the paint gun?[/quote]
    You can, but you’re much better off having a decent length of metal pipe between the compressor and the trap. This will allow the air to cool before it gets to your trap, so more water will have condensed out of it, making the trap more effective.

    Josh
    December 22, 2009 at 1:57 am #18175

    I have been running a small inline water trap (hooks into the air hose and into the pressure regulator) it looks like an orange ball.

    seems to work pretty well… but i’m not exactly sure what they’re called. I’m sure there are many better solutions but i’m just a do it yourselfer and its cheap untill i can get a better dryer system.

    Dennis B.
    December 22, 2009 at 3:41 am #18180

    [b]Andy T wrote:[/b]
    [quote][b]airhead wrote:[/b]
    [quote]now can i run this trap right out of the compressor to the hose and to the paint gun?[/quote]
    You can, but you’re much better off having a decent length of metal pipe between the compressor and the trap. This will allow the air to cool before it gets to your trap, so more water will have condensed out of it, making the trap more effective.[/quote]

    I agree more metal line before trap like 20+ feet of it! you want that air to cool off first before it gets too any trap first! The more it cools the more water it gives up.

    J’s
    December 24, 2009 at 9:06 am #18255

    cool.
    i looked up at sharpe website it had a diagram on how i should set up my lines.

    im thinking on getting a Home depot water trap see how that works out

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