Double fill ports add to my compressor

[Mrshosted]

I’ve been thinking about this idea for sometime. It never fails, I’ll need to fill a gun in the middle of the tank being filled. Or I hate having to waste the compressed air that’s in the dryer canisters every time I want to fill two different bottles. Now with adding a tee fitting and a needle valve. I’ll be able to open and close the valve. Allowing me to continue to fill on both ports at the same time or switch back and forth between the two ports with out stopping the compressor. It would be nice to have two needle valves to do this job. But I should be ok with one. I’ll just not be able to remove one of the tanks until I’m completely finished with filling all the devices. But with use of the tank valve, I’ll still be able to isolate between the two. And fill either one. It wasn’t to badly priced, I spent about $55 on everything. The 6000 psi valve was most of the cost.

 

[Geezerhood]

Nifty idea. Where did you get the stainless T fitting? What is the pressure rating for it?

 

[Mrshosted]

All the fittings are 5000 psi rated and valve is 6000 psi. I picked everything up local at Hose products in Salt Lake City

 

[Impact701]

Great idea !

 

[Geezerhood]

Cool. I wish there was a store like that near me.

If you wanted to be able to keep the pressurized air in your water trap / filter just add a one way valve on the compressor side of the trap, assuming you have a bleed valve on the water trap, a needle valve on the gun/tank side of the trap and a bleed valve on the gun/tank side of the needle valve. I am doing that to my setup right now with some discussion in another thread here on AGN. I won't know how well the chosen parts work until they get here.

I found a 6000 PSI needle valve for $15 on Amazon. One way foster fittings are about $10. The small water trap with a bleed valve is $23 on Aliexprss with links over on the other thread. You might find a bleed valve at that hose shop in SLC for less, but that was the lowest cost I could find that included all the fittings to insert it in line on my final microbore hose.

With all those items in place you can remove guns / tanks from the setup without losing pressure in your water trap AND restart your compressor with no load on it, saving quite a bit of time when filling multiple items in a row vs bleeding out the water trap every time. My double tube water trap takes longer to fill than my biggest bottle airgun.

 

[Scott_R_FL]

I’ve been thinking about this idea for sometime. It never fails, I’ll need to fill a gun in the middle of the tank being filled. Or I hate having to waste the compressed air that’s in the dryer canisters every time I want to fill two different bottles. Now with adding a tee fitting and a needle valve. I’ll be able to open and close the valve. Allowing me to continue to fill on both ports at the same time or switch back and forth between the two ports with out stopping the compressor. It would be nice to have two needle valves to do this job. But I should be ok with one. I’ll just not be able to remove one of the tanks until I’m completely finished with filling all the devices. But with use of the tank valve, I’ll still be able to isolate between the two. And fill either one. It wasn’t to badly priced, I spent about $55 on everything. The 6000 psi valve was most of the cost.
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What are those clamps holding the filter called?
Thanks, Scott

 

[Mrshosted]

Those clamps I found at Home Depo the conduit hanger clamps with bolt

 

[Mrshosted]

I probably should have used Amazon for the saving. But this project was one of those projects that I was shooting from the hip with. But everyone else can now.

 

[Scotty1]

In the trade, we called those clamps “cowboys”, I wonder if that was a local term, or if all electricians use it?