From: none@none.com99   
      
   Its on topic.  Every mill under power in the shop (except the no name   
   mill drill) uses air for something.   
      
   The new air dryer uses an automatic timer to vent the moisture trap...   
   EVERY FRACKING 60 SECONDS!   
      
   I am not a fan of just running the vent hose outside, but I may just do   
   that.  I thought about putting an air muffler on the end of the tube,   
   but it might be more fun to watch a spider go flying across the shop   
   when I power up in the morning.  I have an extra muffler or two.  I have   
   them on three 5 port 4 way spool valves used for quick tool change   
   spindles and they are tolerable.  They also only actuate when I actuate   
   them, so none of that unexpected broken peace when I they hiss at me.   
      
   Yes, it really took me this long to get it all plumbed in and setup.   
   I kept having to order or run and get one more fitting.  Even now I am   
   running a 40 inch flex line between the dryer and the post filter where   
   I would prefer to be running a 20 inch flex line.  (High pressure   
   braided stainless with crimped fittings.)   
      
   Its not cheap, and unlike the old dryer everything is supposed to   
   operate at tank pressure with the shop regulator AFTER the pre filter,   
   dryer, and post filter.  I had to use gas line tape to get all the   
   tapered threads to seal up.  Everything else leaked.  I should have done   
   that in the first place.  I know.  I know.  I was trying other things.   
   I wound up taking everything apart and resealing it (except the metal to   
   metal tapered surface connections on the high pressure flex line of   
   course which sealed up just fine).   
      
   I ran 3/4 from the tank to the prefilter.  Everything new is actually 1   
   inch, but the giant hex bushing in the side of the tank is 3/4, and all   
   my main shop air lines are 3/4.  I don't think the compressor could   
   supply enough air to run a shop that needed 1 inch lines, but mostly I   
   am hiding in the office being annoyed about that vent noise every 60   
   seconds.  Yes, its supposed to do that.  I suppose I'll see if just   
   sticking it in a catch can muffles it any.   
      
   I still need to fix or replace an FRL on one machine that was leaking   
   out the top of the lubricator.  Then after almost two weeks I'll be able   
   to start running parts again.   
      
   Yeah, I could have been up a little quicker with better planning and/or   
   if I didn't take advantage of the failure for a (very annoying) upgrade.   
     Frack!  That air vent is going to drive me nuts if I don't muffle it.   
      
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