In LINE Desiccant AIR Dryer for Compressed AIR Great for Pneumatic Tools Spray Booth Plasma Cutter, with Desiccant beads (1/2" NPT)

I recently bought a plasma cutter and quickly learned that ANY moisture in the air supply will destroy your consumables at a faster rate. This dryer helps keep the air supply nice and dry.

Works great paired with an aftercooler, no moisture in my lines at all. I have a cnc plasma table, sand blaster and powder cut gun I use quite often. Change and dry the beads once a week on average unless I'm using the sandblaster for an extended period of time. Great and cost effective way to keep your lines dry.

Used this in-line air dryer for shop air used to flush auto AC equipment. Worked well. Kept back one star because 1) difficult to mount to wall (no mounting holes in head), and 2) small desiccant volume means that you need to switch out the beads on larger jobs.

I was doing a spray on bed liner for my truck (entire bed outside and hood, will do the rest of the truck later) in August on a 60% humidity day and this kept all the moisture out of the air lines. The bed liner I was using can't have water touch it for a week, so this was extremely important and worked great.

Water still comes shooting out of my air hose with this connected. If you look closely at the pic you'll see there is/are some water droplets forming inside, however as I say, there's still TONS of water coming out of the air hose as I'm working with my air tools. I do a lot of cylinder head porting and let me tell you, it's a royal pain in the butt when you have water shooting out of the die grinder getting all over the head (or intake) you are porting. Major disappointment. And this thing isn't cheap! Major waste of money.

It worked fine for a couple of weeks and now is leaking air constantly. This causes my compressor to run constantly.

I needed a decent economical air filtration and drying system for my newly purchased Plasma Cutter, the 3 and 4 stage sets by some of the bigger brand names were way out of my price range, $400 to a $1000. So I researched the types of filters they had included and in which order and decided to hand pick and create my own 5 stage air filtration system which cost just north of $200 with all the 1/4 npt piping. The desicant beads are slowly turning from a dark blue to a bright pink. Im just a DIY guy so Im sure with more regular usage the beads would change faster with all the moisture absorption. Compared to similiar dessicant bead filters I still think this one is best, its all metal housing is important plus the two bags of dessicant beads included. Ive read that you can regenerate them drying them out in the oven maybe 3 times, it came with two bags of them and you only use half a bag at a time because they should only fill the filter bowl half way so if you do the math thats 4 bowls worth that can be dried out at least 3 time each=12 reload/reuses. Its kept my plasma cutter from sputtering and it seems to be working fine along with all the other filters Ive got.

This prevents the nozzle in my blasting cabinet from constantly clogging. Keep size in mind. This particular unit is very small and turns pink fast in my environment. The beads can be placed in an oven and reused. Overall, I am happy with the product.