Installing aftercooler on a compressor?

Ignoramus3845 fired this volley in news:tLGdnbl9zqtgLpLTnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

An aftercooler only works if you have a way to contain and exhaust the moisture. A timed or level-actuated separator would work. The rub is having the cooler slanted back towards the compressor, with the trap at the low end.

I have an inter-cooled 2-stage, and still _some_ water gets in the tank

-- but not much. I drain maybe a half-pint a week.

LLoyd

My pumps have refrigerated driers that have a drain line going into the sewer, they remove a LOT of water but they run 50% duty cycle at least. If you don't use a huge volume of air you won't get much advantage.