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Slick air drain for a compresser

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Jedi Knight
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I bought an air compressor at a garage sale. No tank, it rotted out. I ask a friend of mine to look in the scrap yard at the truck shop and get a couple of tanks discarded from a truck (about a foot in diameter and two feet long). Then I noticed he left the water drain valve on one of the tanks. The light went on and I have put the drain valve on my main tank and don't have to crawl under the tank (spiders and all) to open a drain valve. These have a cable attached and are spring closing so you pull the cable to empty the tank and when you let it go the valve automatically closes. you can ask a truck driver about them (all of us know and used one) and maybe they will have an extra to give to you or got to a truck parts store and ask for one. They can't be that expesive and it will be so easy to drain your tank (we have to every day on a truck) you will do it as you walk by. Oh by the way the trucks operate at 150 PSI so they will handle regular pressure.
 
There is also an automatic drain valve that screws on the same as the manual valve. At timed intervals it releases a small amount of air, thus bleeding the tank. We used them on cranes and other heavy construction equipment at the lowest possible point in the system and their not as expensive as you might think. PJ
 
And if you're driving your favorite LBC next to a truck when one of the bleeders pops off, it'll scare the bejeebers out of you!
Jeff
 
Bad enuff to make ya call fer yer MAMMA! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif


evnin' Jeff. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/savewave.gif
 
gah. They need to hire more good people!

...I'm kinda lookin' fer a 'position'... but I'd have to "telecommute".
I'd be dead by November 15th if i hadda be there physically. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
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