Golfgar4
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- Joined
- Feb 21, 2002
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- Janesville, Wisconsin
- Tractor
- None -yet. Until then FunBuggy (EZ-Go) will have to do!
My wife and I operate a small art gallery out of our home as a "division" of her interior design business. I do all the manual labor (wasn't he the president of Mexico once? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif) of putting together the frames, cutting the glass, mounting the art work, etc.
I have a small Craftsman air compressor that is rated at 150 psi. Actually, it really is a tire inflator! My work shop is VERY small, so the size is perfect. It does not have a moisture filter, or any other kind of filter for that matter. The hose is 1/4" and comes directly out of the compressor housing, so there is no way to disconnect at that point.
Because I use this compressor to spray off the glass and the art work before the final assembly, I need to make sure that no moisture comes through. Clients don't like it when their limited edition prints have little speckles of water stains on their art work!/w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif I added a water filter rated at 150 psi about a foot away from the compressor by just cutting the hose and clamping the filter to each side of the hose. After completing the connections, I hit the start switch and promptly blew out the diaphram of the filter!
O.K. So I got a defective filter! I buy another one and install it, and wham, the same thing happens again! /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif Now I may be dumb, but I ain't stupid (well, that remains to be seen)! /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif I'm not buying another filter until I ask some questions on TBN.
Now, am I being stupid and missing something here? Shouldn't a 150 psi rated filter work on a 150 psi compressor? What can I do differently so this thing works?
I have a small Craftsman air compressor that is rated at 150 psi. Actually, it really is a tire inflator! My work shop is VERY small, so the size is perfect. It does not have a moisture filter, or any other kind of filter for that matter. The hose is 1/4" and comes directly out of the compressor housing, so there is no way to disconnect at that point.
Because I use this compressor to spray off the glass and the art work before the final assembly, I need to make sure that no moisture comes through. Clients don't like it when their limited edition prints have little speckles of water stains on their art work!/w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif I added a water filter rated at 150 psi about a foot away from the compressor by just cutting the hose and clamping the filter to each side of the hose. After completing the connections, I hit the start switch and promptly blew out the diaphram of the filter!
O.K. So I got a defective filter! I buy another one and install it, and wham, the same thing happens again! /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif Now I may be dumb, but I ain't stupid (well, that remains to be seen)! /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif I'm not buying another filter until I ask some questions on TBN.
Now, am I being stupid and missing something here? Shouldn't a 150 psi rated filter work on a 150 psi compressor? What can I do differently so this thing works?