blowin oil throurgh my hose in to my cemicials

by Mike Simms
(maryland)

i have a craftmans aircompressor 5gallon i use it for blowin air inyo my tonador.Tonador is a spraygun that has a little jug at the bottom of it that u put your allpurpose cleaner in it.So you sqeese the trigger an the cemicals come out.The problem am having is oil is getting in to the purposecleaner how do i stop it from happening the oil mixing with the purposecleaner

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Bill says...

Hey Mike.

All oil lubed air compressors inject a little oil into the compressed air. Lube oil is on the wall of the cylinder as the piston moves up and down, and some of that oil gets into the air in the cylinder, and then pushed into the tank.

You get enough of it in the tank, and you get some oil atomized and in liquid form blowing down your air lines, an in your case, into your work.

If you have a lot of oil, that suggests to me that your piston seals are wearing out and more oil than usual is getting into your air.

Take a look at the Filters link from the home page, then follow the links to the Coalescent Filter pages. It's a coalescent filter you will require to get the oil out of your air line. Make sure you get one that will removed liquid and oil vapour.

Cheers,

Bill