water in the air lines

by lanny forbis
(campbellsville, ky usa)

i get water through my air lines and i even got the air filter hooked up to my compressor along with a presure regulator that came with the kobalt air compressor but it still gets air through the linews. do you have a diagram you can send me showing what all i need to get to stop this problem. i have alreay mesed up one paint job on a show car because of water. i contacted lowes about this , this is whwere i got the compressor at and they have a chart there but every time i go out thereto copy it of they just say i am blocking the isles. i talked to lowes about his and all they could saywa swe are sory. I waited out there the other day for 38 minutes to get some answers and to see if they ahd a diaram for me to go buy and nobody helped me at all. they were outside playing a game called corn hole and eating. this is the second and last time this will happen. i wil pay off my lowes account and stART going to home depot where at least they help you. i was going to spend around $200.00 that day to get bigger air piping and new regulators and air filters and new hvlp spray guns but i got mad and left.

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Lanny: I share your pain! Stores spend millions of dollars to get a customer to come in, and then when the customer does, the store staff doesn't provide the service provided, and the customer is gone.

If only store staff would treat customers the way they would like to be treated if they were the customer, the store experience could be a whole lot better.

Now, to the water. You need to go and read these pages that explain where the water comes from, and what you can do about it.

I can tell you right off that if I was painting high end automobiles, I'd have a dryer at the compressor and probably a point of use desiccant dryer before the paint gun.

As the pages will tell you, you start with inexpensive water removal solutions, and keep adding more technology until your problem is solved. There is no real "one solution" to compressor generated water, as each application has an air dryness level requirement that may be different (and more or less costly) from another.

Cheers,

Bill



Cheers,

Bill