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Installing aftercooler on a compressor?

On this trailered compressor that I am demolishing, there is an aftercooler. You can see it in front of a radiator here:

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I am wondering if installing it on my own Quincy 340 compressor would be useful. I thought that it could cool down the air enough to get some moisture out of it.

Is that a waste of time and a stupid idea? Comments?

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Ignoramus3845
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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

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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh

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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.

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Tom Gardner

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