Sam or Mary Yancy on sat 27 aug 05
My opinion. Speaking about air tools and water traps for comprssors and spray guns, you can buy air tool oil in small bottles - add a drop to your air tool air inlet and use - lasts about 24 hours in use. Compressor water traps/filters are much more important to minimize residule oil from the compressor itself, water and contamimnates to your air tools and spray guns, and so on. As a custom painter for many years, I never used a automativc oiler as all ever needed is to use a drop of oil on my air tools acasionally - and I used them a lot. Plus you can never be sure that the air hose you use is not contaminated with oil vapor from a mistake - even if you identify it. Use of air tools is generally never severe enough to require a air-tool oiler in my opinion. Water and contaminates are usually the death for air tools. Granger sells water/oil traps that are much more important for air pressure air tool/spray gun use. Contaminates and water/oil vapor can reallly destroy a paint job -
perhaps with glaze use too...... Sam in Daly City. P.S drain your aircompressor at lease weekno - I used a hith pressure "radiator/air cooler" between my compressor and 100 gallon tank to "cool down: the compressed air before entering the tank to mimice any water contamination.
Vince Pitelka on sat 27 aug 05
Sam Yancy wrote -
"My opinion. Speaking about air tools and water traps for comprssors and
spray guns, you can buy air tool oil in small bottles - add a drop to your
air tool air inlet and use - lasts about 24 hours in use."
I have to thank Sam for posting this. This is all I have ever done, and my
air tools have lasted me many decades. As some of you know, I was a
mechanic for the City of Arcata in northern California right after
undergraduate school, and my air tools received very heavy use. I have
never used an inline oiler, because of the way it contaminates the system.
I always use a filter/moisture trap, because that does indeed prolong the
life of your air tools. Thirty years later, I still have all those air
tools that I used at the City of Arcata garage.
Go to any auto supply store and buy a quart of Marvel Mystery Oil. It is an
automotive top-end oil, but it is also an excellent general-purpose light
oil, and it smells good too! If you use an air tool heavily, just give a
squirt into the inlet once every few uses and immediately connect it to the
air hose and give it a goose. It will run forever. For any air tool that
sits around unused for a long time, give it a squirt every time you use it.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Technological University
Smithville TN 37166, 615/597-6801 x111
vpitelka@dtccom.net, wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka/
http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/
Paul B on sun 28 aug 05
there is also a Marvel Mystery Air tool oil, not sure if it is much
different than the regular stuff.
That's what i have been doing, i just posted the question because the guy
gave me the oiler and it looks too nice to pass up.
Paul
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