Air compressor in a humid cellar

[NNick]

Hi,

I'm looking to buy an air compressor for both general use and for my laser cutter. I'm sure I know what to do to operate and install it, but I'm just unsure how it will operate in my humid, cool cellar. I need dry air, especially with my laser. How effective would an air separator be running at 30PSI in such conditions? I'm wondering if it would either fill up in minutes or just not remove all of the water. If used for a long job it could be going for quite a while.

Nick

 

[Burnerman]

Is there a branch of Machine Mart near you?
Consider CAT 169, but the staff there could advise you better than me.....I have used this for paint spraying ages ago.
John

 

[big-all]

keep in mind compressors even " fairly silent " ones can be very very noisy
and iff your not a detached property may not be popular

 

[NNick]

Is there a branch of Machine Mart near you?
Consider CAT 169, but the staff there could advise you better than me.....I have used this for paint spraying ages ago.
John

Thanks. I had never heard of Machine Mart. There's one not that close to me, but I'm going close-by at the end of the week so I may pop by.

 

[NNick]

keep in mind compressors even " fairly silent " ones can be very very noisy
and iff your not a detached property may not be popular

I was going for a "Silent" one as this is in my cellar and if it ran for an hour on a job it'd be annoying upstairs!

 

[Old Salt]

I have a compressor that sits in a “kennel” outside my garage with the airline coming into the garage where the separator sits and the supplying an airline reel.

 

[Tigercubrider]

How big a compressor?
I have a small one, so it has to run a lot. It’s very noisy (sealy 24 litre ) and when topping up you can hear it all over the house from a built in garage.
I’d build a kennel type shelter outside. Our massive one at work is in a different brick built space.

Damp air wise, can you bring in drier air from outside?

Also, we have laser cutters at work and have to have massive extracts as laser cutters put out toxic fumes.
I wouldn’t fancy breathing in fumes in a cellar.
Any extracts would need baffles to stop noise from the cellar annoying neighbours.

You could fit aa second tank? Filled from outside and then used to feed the cutter using air from a compressor outside with drier air? But be careful of fumes.

 

[NNick]

I have a compressor that sits in a “kennel” outside my garage with the airline coming into the garage where the separator sits and the supplying an airline reel.

Thanks. Unfortunately I'm in a terrace and the cellar is at the front. I don't fancy building a small kennel in my front garden. I'm hoping to sell up in a couple of years to give me a better workshop in the future.

How big a compressor?
I have a small one, so it has to run a lot. It’s very noisy (sealy 24 litre ) and when topping up you can hear it all over the house from a built in garage.
I’d build a kennel type shelter outside. Our massive one at work is in a different brick built space.

Damp air wise, can you bring in drier air from outside?

Also, we have laser cutters at work and have to have massive extracts as laser cutters put out toxic fumes.
I wouldn’t fancy breathing in fumes in a cellar.
Any extracts would need baffles to stop noise from the cellar annoying neighbours.

You could fit aa second tank? Filled from outside and then used to feed the cutter using air from a compressor outside with drier air? But be careful of fumes.

The one I'm thinking of getting is this one. I'm not sure if you can plug in an air feed into this one to take the air from outside, but that is a good idea. I do have some bigish, but quiet extraction fans (x3) ducted through a Perspex panel covering the open cellar window. Not ideal, but it works. I actually have an automatic air purifier upstairs to catch anything that escapes!