He probably couldn't get them any more...Yeah it does look like an exact copy of that Joe broncata (sp ?) filter that disappeared. Wonder what happened to it ? I think I will purchase one knowing that.
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Gx filter is here
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I hope so. Gx has a video out. Just shows changing the cartridge. Yeah I have that desiccant for my fast to buy brand filter. I think the gx one will be more suited for the cs2
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The bottom of mine has a circlip securing a 1/4"ish thick cotton pad, empty space for the sieve with another cotton pad that goes on the top, held in when you screw the cartridge back into the PMV.
If I were to get the GX, I would immediately open it up and replace the included carbon with sieve. It's wasted on space on a GX compressor. Maybe useful on a stinky YoungHang. But why torture yourself with that old tech!?
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Looks like GX, more or less, just copied the one he got from Joe.
I got mine from Joe with a $50 Target Forge discount code...
I got mine from Joe with a $50 Target Forge discount code...
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Mine should arrive May 3 or 4 according to Amazon. I asked and the Target Forge guy confirmed that the charcoal was GX's idea. Might help somebody, I guess. There are lots of other filters with it. His recommendation was to leave it out the first time you change the sieve. I wonder how much of a change it will make on a dead head test. Dry air is worth it, regardless but I am curious. I guess I will know soon. It looks like the sieve is in a metal tube. Is there a space between the outer metal pressure barrier and the metal tube with the sieve? That might help water come out so it can be drained instead of going into the sieve. I vent my YH every 5 minutes and get a lot of water out that way. The hot air coming out of the pump can carry a lot more moisture than room temperature high pressure air so it will come out as the air cools. But YH temperatures are significantly higher than GX.
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It won’t make a huge difference. I have been using one of the big gold sieve filled filters from Amazon. It definitely looks bigger than the gx filter and it only takes my cs2 like 3 minutes to pressurize it to 150-200 bar and start filling my guns. My understanding is the charcoal is just there to remove odors from the air. Not much use in air gunning. More for breathing air which these filters/compressors aren’t going to achieve no matter what gx says.
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most of the gold filters have a plastic tube which holds the MS or filter material. I have heard that the filter material/MS should not touch the walls of the filter or any metal or it could ruin the metal. Does the filter material inside the new GX filter inside the inter tube touch metal and if so is this a problem? Seems the inter tube does not touch the outside walls but if the inter tube is metal itself is this a problem?
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The activated charcoal is removing VOCs from the air stream (some of which do have an odor; some do not). Since we are not breathing the air, we technically don't need that function - but I suppose removing VOCs could be good for the o-rings and any plastic used in valve seats. That could be why GX decided to include them in the filter (or maybe just to make us have to replace them faster since it is the desiccant that will drive most of our decisions - who really knows why?).
Each can make their own decision on how to proceed, but I would not say that the activated charcoal is useless to us airgunners - it certainly is less important than the desiccant, but it probably still has value.
In full disclosure, I don't use activated charcoal on my system, mostly because I filter and dry my air before compression with a Shoebox compressor (filter after first stage compression from the shop compressor). I might consider trying it with a small filter though . . .
Each can make their own decision on how to proceed, but I would not say that the activated charcoal is useless to us airgunners - it certainly is less important than the desiccant, but it probably still has value.
In full disclosure, I don't use activated charcoal on my system, mostly because I filter and dry my air before compression with a Shoebox compressor (filter after first stage compression from the shop compressor). I might consider trying it with a small filter though . . .
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