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Offline squeegee

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Re: Compressor Oil
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2011, 04:45:01 PM »
Actually with a few air fittings, the valves and some spare air line you could probably locate the valves in a convienent place on the heads.  Mcmastercarr has all you'd need.
What do you mean by this?

That with fittings and air line you could put stop values on each head *in a convenient place* for the flip cylinders to conserve air.


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Re: Compressor Oil
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2011, 04:56:14 PM »
Sorry for the ignorance but I think I know what you mean. The Javelin takes 20+ cfm regardless of how many heads are printing therefore my 14.8 cfm compressor is on the short side, correct? And with fittings and airlines I could isolate the air to where I need it, am I following correctly?

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Re: Compressor Oil
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2011, 07:01:07 PM »
Exactly, since your compressor is short, I was trying to suggest a fairly easy way to save air on the heads you might not use, fittings/valves/air line are cheap.

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Re: Compressor Oil
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2011, 07:52:53 PM »
FYI, the best compressor oil I have found is the synthetic stuff from Northern Tool.  Our compressor runs AWESOME on that stuff.