Lizer
Mad Scientist
This is the Best thing I’ve done in a long time, and I do know it is a pretty common mod. But what I did was I removed the plumbing on my air compressor and installed a transmission cooler In line with the pump and the tank.
Mainline comes out of the pump and directly into the cooler, and out of the cooler through a water separator, and then into the tank. The line going into the cooler is too hot to touch after about 30 seconds. The line coming out of the cooler is room temperature or even cool. My tank used to get extremely hot when the compressor was running for a long time but it no longer does this. The air is getting cooled so much before entering the tank that there is substantial water removal before it even hits the tank.
Anyway I think the entire modification cost me less than $160 and only a few hours of time. But it has been a game changer and making dryer cooler air before even leaving the compressor tank. I show exactly what I used and how I did it in this video. As it turns out though, the water filter is not autodraining and it fills up so fast it needs to be auto draining. I thought it was when I bought it.
Mainline comes out of the pump and directly into the cooler, and out of the cooler through a water separator, and then into the tank. The line going into the cooler is too hot to touch after about 30 seconds. The line coming out of the cooler is room temperature or even cool. My tank used to get extremely hot when the compressor was running for a long time but it no longer does this. The air is getting cooled so much before entering the tank that there is substantial water removal before it even hits the tank.
Anyway I think the entire modification cost me less than $160 and only a few hours of time. But it has been a game changer and making dryer cooler air before even leaving the compressor tank. I show exactly what I used and how I did it in this video. As it turns out though, the water filter is not autodraining and it fills up so fast it needs to be auto draining. I thought it was when I bought it.