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Spray Setup
Posted by MusicCity on Saturday, February 12, 2005 11:10 AM
I've mentioned a time or two that my spray setup is kind of weird. I finally thought to take a picture of it, and here is how it works:


My compressor is a 5-gallon Porter-Cable "General Purpose" compressor that is situated about 50' from my workbench. It has a regulator and moisture trap on it, and I keep the regulator set to about 75 psi.

Air comes from the compressor through the orange hoseon the right side of the photo. It goes through a moisture trap (for reasons explained below), and into a "T" fitting. A hose is connected to the bottom of the "T" and to a standard blow gun so I always have high-pressure air available for blowing off my bench or cleaning my airbrush. The other side of the "T" goes to a regulator for my airbrush. I can set that at low pressure and still have high pressure at the bottom of the "T".

I also have a compressor at my bench, but it's noisy and doesn't have a tank on it. I use it when I just need a shot of air to blow something off and don't want to fool with waiting for the big compressor to pressurize. That one doesn't have a moisture trap or tank, and it blows a LOT of water out which is why I have a trap at the bench.

Everything has quick-disconnect fittings so I can change compressors, tools or hoses easily. Total cost was around $75 or so and it's worked well for a long while.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Saturday, February 12, 2005 11:35 AM
Looks good Scott. Like you say, unusual, but if it works, that's all that matters.

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, February 12, 2005 6:33 PM
that does look good... I am planning on remodeling my hobby room this summer and might take some of what you have and build it into my desk. especially like the idea of unregulated air to blow off the desk...
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by MusicCity on Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:25 AM
QUOTE: especially like the idea of unregulated air to blow off the desk...

That's the best part. I like to blow out my airbrush after I clean it between colors and having a source of air to do that without changing hoses and regulator settings was what caused me to put the "T" in there.

I did forget to mention that everything is mounted on a piece of scrap 1x3 using some thin straps used for holding conduit in place. I had to grind a notch on the 1x3 for the regulator to screw all the way down. It ain't pretty and it ain't fancy, but it works great.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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  • From: Central USA
Posted by qmiester on Sunday, February 13, 2005 7:29 PM
Scott,

Looks as if you've put a lot of thought into the set-up. Only question I have is, how the heck to you put up with that coiled plastic hose? I've always felt they were more a pain in the rear use than a piece of standard 1/4" airhose.

Ok, 2 questions. How are you routing your air to the set up?
Quincy
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Posted by MusicCity on Sunday, February 13, 2005 7:43 PM
QUOTE:
Looks as if you've put a lot of thought into the set-up. Only question I have is, how the heck to you put up with that coiled plastic hose? I've always felt they were more a pain in the rear use than a piece of standard 1/4" airhose.

Actually, it just kind of evolved over time [:}]

I Agree about the hose. I hate coiled hoses for most everything, but right there it works pretty well. It came with my compresor and it took a while to find a use for it, but it reaches all around my bench pretty well and doesn't get in the way.

QUOTE:
Ok, 2 questions. How are you routing your air to the set up?

50' of 3/8" ID (I think) air hose hung from the floor joists above. One of these days I'll get around to using hard PVC but this works OK for now.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by qmiester on Monday, February 14, 2005 8:55 PM
I finally installed pvc (the better half was complaining about the 5/8" hose I had suspended) looks better and it also let me run some lines to the outside of the house for use there on other projects. Quick too, once I got every thing together took me about 4 hours one rainy Sunday afternoon.
Quincy
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Posted by MusicCity on Monday, February 14, 2005 9:29 PM
It's somewhere on the list of "Stuff-I-Gotta-Do". I've got floor joists, plumbing, ductwork, and all the other junk to work around so I need to figure out how I'm going to route it. May shout at you for some tips when I get around to it.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:11 AM
i actually like my 25' coiled plastic hose. works well actually, and it saved me a trip for buying a male>male set (set only, was $12, but my hose came with my comp)
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Posted by MusicCity on Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:02 AM
QUOTE: i actually like my 25' coiled plastic hose. works well actually

I don't like mine because I always feel like it's fighting me when I try and use it. Stretch it out very far and it wants to pull back. Not a big problem just blowing things off, but when using air tools or somethig delicate I need all the help I can get. But then it's been said that I only have two brain cells left and they are fighting it out to see who is going to be master of the world.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by saltydog on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:13 PM
nice set up scott!! i used to have one similar, but since moving to the apartment, i have none at all.Disapprove [V] soon though, very soon!! whats aggrevating, now that i have plenty of time, we're on a tight budget for now and my hands are tied til' we get adjusted to the new cost of living and such. BTW, how did you get the text into your pic? man, i've tried and tried to do find out how to do that!! later.
Chris The Origins of Murphy's Law: "In the begginning there was nothing, and it exploded."!!! _________ chris
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Posted by MusicCity on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:10 PM
QUOTE: now that i have plenty of time, we're on a tight budget for now and my hands are tied til' we get adjusted to the new cost of living and such.

That's the way it always works, bro. You either have the time or the finances, but seldom have both at once. Dead [xx(]

QUOTE: BTW, how did you get the text into your pic? man, i've tried and tried to do find out how to do that!!

Paintshop Pro (www.jasc.com) If you can't do it with PSP you didn't need it anyway.

Virtually any halfway decent graphics software will let you put text in an image though. Even Paintbrush that comes with Windows will do that. PSP will let you do virtually anything to an image though. All the logos and stuff on my web site were done with it and I'm certainly no artist by any definition.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: Lower Alabama
Posted by saltydog on Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:47 PM
thanks scott! i have the weekend warrior windows Paintbrush you mentioned!! i'll experiment with it first, then maybe get the big dog software package.LOL thanks, later.
Chris The Origins of Murphy's Law: "In the begginning there was nothing, and it exploded."!!! _________ chris
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