almost forgot you should google flow gauge mig regulator and get one with a hose it will have most of the fittings you need. a couple extra fittings for your compressor inlet ang you are ready to fill with nitrogen.
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Important info on air compressor water removal
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What is all that equipment do? I just assumed that a nitrogen tank functioned like compressed air, and I could just empty it from the big tank into the small one on my gun or bottle. Looks like you have a compressor or something in between?
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I use the nitrogen to feed the compressor instead of ambient air the tank is much to low pressure for direct gun bottle filling so the compressor works as a differential pump.
the main reason is humidity in the Seattle area runs in the 80-90 percent range most of the time. this way I have NO Moisture getting into my guns
the main reason is humidity in the Seattle area runs in the 80-90 percent range most of the time. this way I have NO Moisture getting into my guns
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Noticing the picture
regulator #1 has a check valve keeping the chamber at 1800 psi. Does the Foster connector #2 have a check valve? if not, are you not some what defeating the propose of keeping it at 1800 PSI? Every time you fire up the compressor you will need to charge it.
hope I'm making sense, regards: Mike
regulator #1 has a check valve keeping the chamber at 1800 psi. Does the Foster connector #2 have a check valve? if not, are you not some what defeating the propose of keeping it at 1800 PSI? Every time you fire up the compressor you will need to charge it.
hope I'm making sense, regards: Mike
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Keep in mind if the foster fitting had a check valve and it kept high pressure in the filter you would not be able to connect a female foster fitting to the male. You could not overcome the pressure. I think for storage the psi should just exceed atmospheric pressure to keep moisture out. If I am looking at this right
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Example. The female foster on my tank hose has no pressure valve, when we hook it up to the gun and turn on the tank valve, the pressure of the tank will overcome the one way check valve in the fill port. Allowing the filling of the gun. is this not the same principal?
The reason I'm bringing this up, if this method is used, the only way it is efficient would be to have the filter always charged. unless servicing the filter. other wise you will according to the stated ligature, loose filter efficiency when charging the filter every time you fire up the pump. Of course you will need to relive the pressure when servicing the filter, noticing that there is no pressure release on the system that is pictured.
one way check valve on the inlet
filter charged to 1800 psi
regulator to allow air flow over 1800 psi and not to allow air flow under 1800 psi.
Hope I'm making more sense. Regards Mike
The reason I'm bringing this up, if this method is used, the only way it is efficient would be to have the filter always charged. unless servicing the filter. other wise you will according to the stated ligature, loose filter efficiency when charging the filter every time you fire up the pump. Of course you will need to relive the pressure when servicing the filter, noticing that there is no pressure release on the system that is pictured.
one way check valve on the inlet
filter charged to 1800 psi
regulator to allow air flow over 1800 psi and not to allow air flow under 1800 psi.
Hope I'm making more sense. Regards Mike
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I never write clear. At work we use larger foster firings that have a check valve in all the fittings, male and female. Let’s say that a hose was not connected to the filter, but the filter had a 1000 psi in it. I would not be physically strong enough to connect a hose back to the filter. Without releasing pressure from the filter. What would be an advantage of having high pressure in the filter when stored?
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but like our air guns the foster fitting has a one way valve in it. the line we connect to it does not have any pressure in it so it is easy to click in the line.
Allen
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...Hope this helps!
Those valves are not cheap, then adding adaptors and lines makes adding the valve a $100 plus venture. Right now I have a just have a manual outlet valve to keep pressure in my separator and a foster fitting on the input end to keep the pressure from escaping from the other end. Even then the $ outlay was probably $50. makes that sub $300 compressor another step closer to a fully set up Alkin.
Allen
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