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RE: drying air from a compressor

To: "'cak@dimebank.com'" <cak@dimebank.com>, shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: drying air from a compressor
From: Ken Landaiche <ken_landaiche@dlcc.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:39:24 -0700
I thought the general consensus on this list was to use iron pipe for
air lines. How does that relate to the use of copper for a heat
exchanger? 

Ken Landaiche

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cak@dimebank.com [SMTP:cak@dimebank.com]
> 
> I recall a discussion some tiem ago, either here or on r.c.m, about
> someone who made up a little radiator from copper plumbing bits for
> the
> purposes of cooling the air from the compressor - basically about 8
> rows of copper tubing in parallel, with a common manifold at each end.
> Lots of surface area to do heat exchange ... seemed like a neat idea.

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