[TheForge] separate air systems or split system?

[ries]

Terry, the way you do this is you put an oiler just ahead of the quick  
disconnects for your air tools, and you put additional water traps  
just ahead of your paint station.
So your entire air system is not oiled- just the air that goes to the  
tools.

You can buy cheapo filter/regulator/oiler assemblies, and place them  
at each air tool station- with 50 or 100 foot hoses, two or three of  
these should be plenty.

You dont want oil in ALL your air- just when you are using air tools.  
You want oil free air for blowing things off, blasting, and painting.

A really good place to look at piping setups is here-

http://www.tptools.com/StaticText/airline-piping-diagram.pdf

TP tools sells compressors, sandblasters, and accessories to home and  
small shops.

I used their piping layout when I built my shop, 14 years ago now, and  
it works great- you build in drains and valves at low spots, to  
manually drain water from the piping, and you add oilers at your  
disconnects for tools.

ries


On May 14, 2009, at 8:10 AM, terry l. ridder wrote:

hello;

there are two basic uses of compressed air in the shop; pneumatic tools
and spray painting. spray painting requires dry oil-free air while the
pneumatic tools require lubrication and dry air. currently each tool is
oiled when it is put into use this is okay for now put not what i would
like for the new shop. in laying out the new air system i can either
create two independent compressed air systems one for spray painting and
one for everything else or a split system that use the same compressors
and air receivers but separate piping systems.

i would be interested in hearing how others have dealt with this.


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terry l. ridder ><>
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