[QUOTE="Craig in Davis"]I bought a SpeedAire 8 oz tool lubricator to create a mist of oil for tool lubrication. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE="booker535"]Curious about oilers.
Where do you place the oiler? Is it at the end of the hose, near the tool? Or, at the compressor side of the hose. If it is the latter, I wonder about oil getting sprayed through everything, like the blow gun, for instance. You may have just degreased a part, and now you want to dry it, but there is oil coming through the line!
I see the merits of a water separator (esp. in the humid climate I live in), but I dunno about having oil in the hose. I am pretty good about oiling my tools before use.
Thoughts?[/QUOTE]
I built a manifold to handle the issues of dry air for tires and blow drying parts, and so forth; and to have oiled air for tools.
The rubber hose in the photo is input from the compressor, dry air is on the right, the oiler to the left of the input.. The maniforld is attached to the garage wall, and is readily expanded if I want to run an air line to another part of the garage, or through the wall to the outside. The drip rate of the oiler is adjustable.
This photo shows the compressor and the pressure regulator Installed to have full control on pressure to air tools, or a paint sprayer if I want to fun one. The regulator has a water separator, visible below the gauge. The drawbacks of this oilless unit, as I said in the old forum, are noise, only 130psi, noise, only a 60 gallon tank, and noise. The size isn't really relevant, it sits next to a work bench and the bench sticks out a bit more from the wall than the compressor.
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