From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 7/19/2025 10:11 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Its still hissing at me ever 60 seconds like a vindictive gopher snake,   
   but on a positive note the air drill used for de-burring still works.   
      
   I'm actually kind of starting to get used to the hiss.  Yeah.  No.  No I   
   am not.   
      
      
      
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