On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:14:30 -0600, Ignoramus13338
wrote:

On 2013-11-13, John B wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:14:04 -0600, Ignoramus11549
wrote:

On 2013-11-13, Pete Keillor wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:10:34 -0600, Karl Townsend
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:50:30 -0600, Ignoramus11549
wrote:

I have a 10 HP compressor that we use quite a bit, so it accumulates a
fair amount of water in the tank.

The tank is a horizontal tank with a drain on the bottom.

I would like to find some good solution to draining that water that
would quietly drain water into a bucket. I recall seeing one drain
like this at some factory. I do not remember how it worked, but it was
some copper line from the compressor bottom, going up, then there was
something clever, and it drained nicely into a bucket.

A lot of "electronic" drains simply open a valve every 45 seconds. I
do not like this design, as it wastes air and is noisy.

Also note that if I drain the bottom of a horizontal tank, water would
be mixed with air, so the drain needs to be able to deal with that.

Any suggestions?

i

you want a muffler on the exhaust. how fancy do you want to get?
a 1/4 line going vertical to a long 2" pipe that slopes down to the
bucket would reduce noise a lot.

You could buy a stainless steel muffler with the same 1/4 line and not
even hear it

karl

Would a bucket trap work? I know them from steam service. Here's a
link.
http://www.armstronginternational.co...nverted-bucket

It kind of does resemble what I saw. Thanks.

Do they only work in-line with flow, or at the end of the line, like
compressor drains?

i
The one I remember, and I don't know if it was the same make or model,
was at the shop end of a long, probably 150 - 200 ft., black iron air
line. There was a sort of air strainer/filter sort of thing and this
float operated valve was on the bottom of that.

the history was that the compressor was over at the sheet metal shop
end of the hanger and the pipe ran up to the ceiling, down the hanger
to our shop and then straight down to the valve and connection. First
the boss put this filter thing on and we got water out of the line;
then he put a small water separator on the line and the guys always
forgot to drain it and we got water out of the line and finally he
added this float valve and we never got any more water :-)

They need an air dryer!

I bought 64 air dryers from the govt yesterday. Maybe they can buy
some from me!

i

No. I guess my explanation was too brief.

First they installed the air line to give our shop compressed air. The
line became almost a water line due to condensation. Next step, the
Shop Chief installed a little filter and water collecting tank but the
guys in the shop never remembered to drain the water catcher so there
was still water. Finally, the Shop Chief installed this automatic
float operated valve thingee that drained water without depending on
the guys in the shop to remember to do it :-)
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Cheers,

John B.