Air Purge Holes On Omega Super Charger

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likkitysplyt

likkitysplyt

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Hi Guys

​Newbie to the forum and was noticing that a lot of folks on here have an Omega Super Charger Compressor and since mine has not arrived from AoA yet, I was wondering what the owners of this compressor use to keep the moisture spray from the two holes in the back of the unit from getting all over everything. I live in NC so there is a lot of humidity in the air at least 6 months out of the year. I plan on keeping it under a table in my man cave but I don't especially want it spraying on the wall behind it. I was thinking about putting a plastic drop cloth sheet behind it and letting it drain down from the sheet into a bowl or some other receptacle to catch the water or possibly trying to find some plastic tubing to place in the holes and run them down to a receptacle. Was wondering what you guys use to keep the water and oil off the carpet, walls or furniture. Thanks in advance ... Love this forum
 
Thank you Mick, Jonah and TJE or your answers. I think my reasons for asking the question centered around a YouTube video I saw once of someone manually purging the moisture from a compressor which did not have the auto purging feature. When the person purged it from the compressor, it shot straight down to the concrete floor and created a good sized puddle of water and oil mixed together. I do not know how long the compressor had been running, whether the person was filling up a guppy tank, a rifle or a 75 cu ft tank, but I remember thinking to myself that I sure wouldn't want to go about creating messes like that in the house. Your responces have eased my mind a lot, but I think I may still put a plastic sheet held up by thumbtacks directly behind those 2 purge holes on the Omega ... just in case the accumulation of small blasts of moisture on a painted wall might have some derogatory effects on the sheet rock ... Again, thank you for your answers! John
 
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Likkity-splyt,

I am waiting for my order to arrive from AOA as well, they told me it 'should' ship this week. Impact with .30 and .25 barrels, Hawke scope, 75 Cubic Foot Omega tank plus Omega Turbo Charger 4500 psi Compressor. I will put a rag near the holes to sop up any drippings or moisture that shoots out during the purge cycle. I doubt that more than 1/8th of a cup of water would come out per two hour session. It's a purge value for moisture right? So no need to worry about oil spewing out of the purge valve right?

Really looking forward to getting into air gunning, I have a decent setup in my 'back 40'. That said, it's high time to start putting out squirrel bait - maybe cut up a 2 by 4 into six inch long sections and nail these to the trees in the woods abutting my property. I am thinking a dollop of peanut butter would attract the squirrels?
 
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Shortslide,
​Yep, can't wait for mine to arrive. UPS says that the 3 packages I ordered just left Mesquite, Texas and will be here Friday. You said you got the Turbo Charger ... did you pay $2200 for the Turbo or did you mean the Super Charger? Sounds like we have just about placed the same order. I got the Impact in .22 about a month ago, a Hawks Sidewinder 8-32x56 and FX no limit mounts and this order that will be here on Friday includes a .25 barrel for the Impact, a 75 Cu Ft tank and the Super Charger along with a variety of fittings. My Impact came with the regulator set at 120 Bar and it zips the 16 grain JSB at about 925 fps but the 18 grain JSB is only doing a little over 860. I'm pretty sure that I will have to turn the regulator up to about 140 for the .25 to work well. I tried cleaning the barrel of the .22 and it destroyed all the accuracy for about the next 300 rounds before the barrel was dirty enough to shoot straight again. Clean it when you get it because it is full of factory grease, but only clean it when your accuracy starts falling off after that. I only have 60 yards behind the house to play with but it is doing 1/2" groups which isn't too shoddy. I expect the gun will do better once I turn the regulator up a bit so it can shoot the 18 grain JSBs about as fast as the 16 grainers. I have been using a Benjamin pump to fill the tank with, but it is a royal pain to get the pressure up to 3400 which is as high as I ever made it before the O-rings blew on the Benji.

Good luck, here's hoping you get a real "keeper" with your Impact and I know you are going to love that Charger!
 
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Likkity-splyt

I have the "Turbo" $2,300 version, but am contemplating spending the extra $700 and getting the Daystate. Not sure about this because I would have an issue with the 230 volt hookup - my compressor will be in the house but I don't have a 230 volt hookup in the area where my compressor will live. Assuming the Daystate is quicker because it is 230 volt as opposed to the 110 volt Omega chargers. The extra Volts means the Daystate would have a larger engine. AOA had three extra Impacts, apparently fellow forum member Douger and I each grabbed one of those three extra Impacts. Since my rifle ships last, I may still have time to upgrade to a Daystate if I can figure out my 230 volt outlet issue. I have a good friend that is an electrician so I am covered there.

I hear you on first time barrel cleaning to remove factory grease, but I thought AOA did this as part of their set up of each rifle.
 
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I bought a furnace air filter. Built an aluminum sleeve that is supported by a set of feet from an old computer. I set it about 4 inches behind the Omega Super when I run it to collect any sprayed moisture. I have been using the same furnace filter since I received the compressor 3 years ago. I do run the compressor inside but live in the St. Louis area so we have plenty of humidity. This has worked well for me...
 
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Wow, 3 grand for a compressor ... sheeez man, I must have been in the wrong occupation all my life hahaha. Yea, that Daystate is something special from what I hear. I do know that AoA will let you upgrade from the Turbo to the Daystate as long as you order it BEFORE the shipment leaves AoA, because I upgraded mine to the Super Charger without any problems. If the order has already shipped they will charge you a 15% re-stocking fee and possibly the freight charges, but I'm not sure about the freight charges. I'm the only one that will be using my compressor and I can't shoot enough pellets fast enough to warrant buying anything that will fill faster than the Super Charger can fill a 75 Cu Ft tank. Of course though ... you will be shooting the .30 cal and it is an air hog ... but the Impact will give me over a hundred shots per fill with the 16 grain JSBs. Don't know about the Daystate having a larger engine just because it runs off of 230 volts, I've seen Chinese imports going for $350 that use 230 volts.

​AoA will shoot a group for you at 20 yards and include a photo copy of the results in the material they send with the impact, but the truth is that you can hide ALOT of imperfection on a 20 yard group, so I wouldn't rely upon that too much. Don't know about your barrels but I cleaned mine before I ever took a shot out of it and it was unbelievable the gunk that came out of it. You said you were new to air gunning so just be sure to not use a brass or metal brush on the barrel as most air guns are not made out of the same steel that center fire or rimfire guns are made out of and you could ruin a air gun barrel in short order if you do. The only barrels that you can use metal brushes on are hammer forged barrels. Get a good pull through and use cloth patches. Don't use anything to clean the barrel that is flammable ... the only thing I use to clean mine with is Ballistol. Don't try adjusting the trigger on the Impact unless you got a pretty darn good idea about how it works, it is super sensitive to very minor adjustments. When I adjusted mine I stripped out the allen hole on the second stage screw because it was loctited in place with cement ( or it seemed like it ) ... anyway I made a boo-boo and should have heated up the sear when I saw it was too tight so I may have to replace that ... but anyway ... over the next four hours ... I was able to get a pretty decent trigger using only the first stage screw and the spring tension on the sear ... but mine took a long time and a lot of patience to get it right again.
 
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Hey Shortslide ... My Super Charger got here late yesterday and I started setting it up after I finished up staining the deck behind the house ... I DO LOVE RETIREMENT! Anyway all the fittings that AoA put on the lines for the compressor AND the the Omega tank were loose and leaking air. Would not build up any pressure so I took a couple of wrenches and snugged them up and it started building pressure. For some reason it took forever to get to 1800 PSI and I couldn't detect any leaks. I shut it off last night at 1800 PSI and figured that I would check for a loose or malfunctioned burst air disk or the main check valve under it in the morning. I got up this morning and cranked it up and it went from 1800 to 4500 PSI is 2 hours. Don't know what the problem was last night, but it did great this morning. It does get a little louder as the pressure builds but not much, I can still watch TV and run the compressor without much trouble. All in all, other than the fittings not being tight on the air lines and the thing taking forever to get to 1800 PSI, everything went pretty smoothly. I don't think I will ever let that tank drop below 2000 PSI again so top offs should be just about right going from 3000 to 4500 in about 45 minutes.
 
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Hey Likkity-split,

My order is scheduled for delivery tomorrow - all 180 pounds of it. I am planning on leaving work early, soon after the UPS guy makes his delivery. I figure it will take a fair amount of time to unpack everything. I did order a pull through cleaning kit so I will run a few patches through my barrels. Which reminds me a need to get some Ballistol. That said, I have a bunch of cleaning solutions I used on my 1911's and other powder burners.

Do you think these would be OK? It says that "Wilson Combat® Carbon Remover is a nonflammable specially formulated material used to remove the spent carbon and firing residue from your firearm. It is especially effective on black powder residue."

http://shopwilsoncombat.com/Ultima-Lube-II-Carbon-Remover-4-oz-Bottle/productinfo/603-4/

Hoping my fittings do not leak, so I may just tighten them all prior to firing up the Compressor. That said, it will take quite a while to fill my Omega 75 cubic foot tank up from zero, so before I do that, it's OK to fill my gun directly from the Compressor right? AOA said that they were putting foster fittings on everything so filling the Omega tank will be a snap. Probably makes more sense to spend Friday night unpacking everything, cleaning the factory grease out of my two barrels (.25 and .30) and finding a home for all my supplies. Glad I purchased a bullet box (good for anything up to and including a 22 rimfire) so I will set that up. All I need is a range finder, then maybe a camera set up for my Hawke scope. 

It will be nice to shoot without needing ear-pro. That said, the MSA Sordins below are very comfortable and effective. Especially when I double plug with foam plugs, then turn the volume all the way up on the MSA's. That is a little 9mm Wilson 'ULC Sentinel' below. About as small as a "baby Glock" but way more accurate. 

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Shortslide... most of the time when I clean my barrels I just run dry patches through it. You don't have carbon fouling or powder residue and you certainly don't have muzzle loader buildup. I would be very careful using anything with a petroleum base. Whatever you use on the barrel make sure you clean it out very well with dry patches afterward. The biggest "no-no" for air gun barrels is to not use any kind of a wire brush or a linked together push rod. The only thing I use is a really good pull through and occasionally some Ballistol.

​I've been having some problems with my filling station. I can hook the lines up and cap them off so the pressure builds up in them and it goes all the way to 4500 PSI, but when I open the line up to feed the Omega tank sometimes it will fill and go all the way to 4500 and sometimes it wont ... like it gets hung up around 3200 PSI and wont go higher. If the compressor will pressurize the lines to 4500 but it stops building pressure when hooked up to the tank, then it would seem to me that the problem would have to be with the tank. I have sprayed Windex all over every fitting and only found one small leak around the burst disk on the carbon fiber tank, I tightened it up and it stopped leaking there ... but it has to have a leak somewhere or it would continue filling to the desired pressure. I called up Todd at AoA and talked with him about it trying to troubleshoot the problem and he seems to be at his wits end also. Right now, I have the tank filled to 4200 psi and can't get it to go any further. It did that last night at 1800 psi where it would not go any higher. I turned the compressor off and let it sit over night ... fired it up first thing this morning and it filled the tank to 4500 psi in about an hour and a half ... go figure! Thank goodness it's still under warranty.
 
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