Any of you other shop rats using a refrigerated dryer on your air?
Brand/model recommendations? Other dos and dont's?

"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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Any of you other shop rats using a refrigerated dryer on your air?
Brand/model recommendations? Other dos and dont's?

We have an Ingersol Rand that can handle 1200 cfm. We run air 16 to 24 hours
a day constant use. Unless you have a good sized shop, refrigerated units
are expensive to buy and operate. The thermal mass is kept cold all the time
so for a weekender it is kind of silly to do that.

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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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Any of you other shop rats using a refrigerated dryer on your air?
Brand/model recommendations? Other dos and dont's?

We have an Ingersol Rand that can handle 1200 cfm. We run air 16 to 24 hours
a day constant use. Unless you have a good sized shop, refrigerated units
are expensive to buy and operate. The thermal mass is kept cold all the time
so for a weekender it is kind of silly to do that.

I'm talking about a shop, but no where near that cfm level. We do have a
couple of rather spendy machining centers, and the water in the air will
sooner or later destroy the spindles.

"Smitty Two" wrote in message

I'm talking about a shop, but no where near that cfm level. We do have a
couple of rather spendy machining centers, and the water in the air will
sooner or later destroy the spindles.

Then refrigeration is probably a good investment. We get very dry air and
it has eliminated a lot of gumming up of pneumatic cylinders.

Smitty,

We use Quincy units.
http://www.quincycompressor.com/air_treatment.html

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"Smitty Two" wrote in message
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Any of you other shop rats using a refrigerated dryer on your
air?
Brand/model recommendations? Other dos and dont's?

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wrote:

Smitty,

We use Quincy units.
http://www.quincycompressor.com/air_treatment.html

Thanks Dan, I'll check them out.