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Foremen taking a donut break

In the back ground is my recently purchased 60 gallon 3 hp compressor rated for 12 cfm at 40 pounds. When spraying primer on the bottom with my 6 cfm/60 lb inlet pressure HVLP gun, the compressor ran infrequently.

 

I didn't have time to install a proper 20' run of copper tubing to allow the compressed air to cool thus allow moisture to form and be extracted via a water separator. So, I took the air hose between the compressor and water separator and put it in a 50 gallon trash can filled with water and ice. The day I sprayed was warm and very low humidity. Very little water was drained from the separator so my Rube Goldberb cooling system was probably unneccessary that particular day..

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Uploaded on April 2, 2011
Taken on April 2, 2011