Interesting, HF no longer seems to have the drain on their web site.
My compressor ... two stage 175 psi 17.9 cfm 80 gallon tank ... came with a
copper line going to the unloader and a plastic tube going to the original
auto drain. The plastic tube held up longer than the auto drain ... about 10
years. I replaced it with the HF auto drain and plastic tubing ... I think
it was rated for 200 psi or more ... and the HF drain failed shortly
thereafter. Could be why it is no longer on their web site. Anyway I bought
another drain from the place I bought the compressor, retained the HF tubing
and have not had any issues with either the tubing or the non-HF auto drain.
Arvid
-----Original Message-----
From: eric at megageek.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 7:50 PM
To: shop-talk at Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Auto drain for compressor
The directions say in them "designed for compressors that have poly or
nylon "unloader" tubing and not for compressors with copper or AL
unloading tools"
It doesn't say any more than that. I'm not even going to bother
installing it on my with a warning like that. I'm still pulling out what
hair I have left over installing pipes that ARE meant to work! 8>)
Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
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Re: [Shop-talk] Auto drain for compressor
> It doesn't work on my compressor either (it's
> not meant for the big boys.)
Can you amplify on that a bit, Moose? I haven't bothered to hook mine up
yet (and I will definitely be upgrading the plastic line), but I don't see
why it wouldn't work for basically any compressor (except perhaps because
the amount it vents is limited).
Provided of course it has an unloader (which is what the small line has to
hook up to). But I've never seen an electric compressor that didn't have
an
unloader.
-- Randall
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