Made an airline radiator, de-humidifier, multi-regulator doodah

[gaz1]

by the way its soldering the copper pipe up

your also over heating the copper pipe you can tell by the darkness of the copper tube at the joints of the tees and elbows to get around this heat enough then move the blow lamp up and down along the pipe and fitting

the other thing i will mention is watch for the silver solder just being seen at the front and run the blow lamp around the back that makes sure all the solder has gone around the fitting instead of over heating the front of the pipe

only if not sure do you use solder but only a touch amount is needed to seal the copper tube to the fitting

 

[dannyp]

+3 for not bothering with oilers.

the things are useless anyway, they ether don't oil at all or they over oil so tools end up chucking oil out everywhere. even when they do oil most of the oil just settels on the walls of the airline. much easyer to have all your air as clean and dry as possible and then oil the tools directly

 

[skotl]

Skotl, You could also get rid of the lubricator, They usually just clamp to the reg, with an "o" ring between, when separated there will be a thread in the reg to take your out-put fitting.

as above loose the lubricator there not needed . 3 drops of oil in your tools before use is suficcient and last years . why crap your airlines-up when not -needed -

+3 for not bothering with oilers.

the things are useless anyway, they ether don't oil at all or they over oil so tools end up chucking oil out everywhere. even when they do oil most of the oil just settels on the walls of the airline. much easyer to have all your air as clean and dry as possible and then oil the tools directly

Huh... That's a pain, given I just made this whole radiator thing to cope with the oiler

So, apart from all the connections being wrong and the pointless oiler, and the rubbish soldering, I gauge that a success

 

[skotl]

by the way its soldering the copper pipe up

your also over heating the copper pipe you can tell by the darkness of the copper tube at the joints of the tees and elbows to get around this heat enough then move the blow lamp up and down along the pipe and fitting

the other thing i will mention is watch for the silver solder just being seen at the front and run the blow lamp around the back that makes sure all the solder has gone around the fitting instead of over heating the front of the pipe

only if not sure do you use solder but only a touch amount is needed to seal the copper tube to the fitting

Cheers Gaz - I didn't expect it to look pretty (and it doesn't!) but did want it to be airtight, which it is
I used the connectors with solder built in and added more, on the assumption that you can't have too much of a joint. I'd rather it was ugly and airtight than the alternative!

I'm certainly getting lots of good advice for the Mk 2 version

 

[the snooper]

re the hoses wrong way round, suerly they have the same threads as the pcl female so you could just swap around, if they were release by accident while pressurised they will fly all over the place and possibly whip you

 

[MattH]

Huh... That's a pain, given I just made this whole radiator thing to cope with the oiler

So, apart from all the connections being wrong and the pointless oiler, and the rubbish soldering, I gauge that a success

Yeah, apart from all that it's awesome!

 

[skotl]

Yeah, apart from all that it's awesome!

Cheers Matt - I'm gonna take that!

 

[the snooper]

you will be opting for an auto drain next

 

[Robotstar5]

re the hoses wrong way round, suerly they have the same threads as the pcl female so you could just swap around, if they were release by accident while pressurised they will fly all over the place and possibly whip you

Maybe you could patent it as a sado-masochistic whipping machine?

 

[Parm]

Huh... That's a pain, given I just made this whole radiator thing to cope with the oiler

So, apart from all the connections being wrong and the pointless oiler, and the rubbish soldering, I gauge that a success

Just add the flux capacitor and I'll be along shortly to go into the future, we can then bring back the nitro desiccant air drier thingy doo dah jobbie and show this lot how to do it !!!!

 

[skotl]

I was quite chuffed that it was airtight

 

[dannyp]

Huh... That's a pain, given I just made this whole radiator thing to cope with the oiler

So, apart from all the connections being wrong and the pointless oiler, and the rubbish soldering, I gauge that a success

sadly thats pritty much it, but we are all allways learing. i dread to think over the years how much time and money ive spent getting things wrong, usally when trying to make extra effort to do things right.

i rember going on a water trap and oiler frenzy seeemd a brilliant idea at the time. tho now everything is completly diffrent. works better and shockingly cost less.

it's now, basicly 1 condensate trap, a 2nd hand refigerated air dryer ( these things are awsome it was about £100 and just fixes all the water issues ) then for spraying i have a dessicant dryer and filter with a male and femail PCL on it so just plug in when needed for spraying. since putting the air dryer in i havent needed to change the dessicant tho thats more than payed for the dryer and i do very littel spraying.

big feature for me is all the airlines are then clean lines. so no need to keep tool lines and clean lines separate and if you need to stick all lines together to blow up that tyer 200 mtrs away you can

 

[Parm]

I was quite chuffed that it was airtight

Soldering copper pipe is quite satisfying, next time ease back with the heat as the joints/ copper shouldn't be that black. Dance the torch round the fitting starting at one end. If it's all cleaned and flexed properly the solder will magically appear as a ring and then quickly move to the next one. You've mastered it when the copper stays almost copper colour with the slightest blue tinge

 

[Burdekin]

Think I read you were looking for somewhere that sold just hose and hose fittings, if so this might be helpful for you.: http://www.air-compressorsdirect.co.uk/hose-tails.html