Comp Air or Hand hekd dryer

[Earl Weiss]

I have a spare function on my meter box. Thought about the handheld dryer. Also thinking of compressed air per a post by Tom Hoffman. Putting in the compressed air would likely be a lot cheaper overall than the hand held dryers. I would need a good second compressor in the equipment room Cost likely equal to 2 In bay hand held dryers. After that it's just a bank of solenoid valves. Either way there is a boom in the bay for the unit. But it's a lot cheaper to run hoses to the bay than new electric for each Hand Held dryer.

Thoughts?

 

[mjwalsh]

I am having trouble visualizing a large enough air compressor with large enough manifold pipes etc. to make the CFM be the equivalent to the best CFM that comes out of the 2 inch hosed better hand blow drys for a bunch of self service bays. A real thorough air flow analysis would make sense & be interesting before going that route I would think. On one of our vacuums we have an air option from a back room solenoid that can pump up tires & I have seen some use the more versatile nozzle to just blow & clean & possibly dry crevices ... but not the whole vehicle.

 

[Earl Weiss]

.............. I have seen some use the more versatile nozzle to just blow & clean & possibly dry crevices ... but not the whole vehicle.

Yes, did not mean to imply applications were equivalent. The utilization would be different. It's all a question of $ / usage.

 

[chaz]

Both. Add air option to at least one vacs, fed from your main compressor. Cheap and easy money, my customers like being able to use time for air or vac.

More pricy but great profit air dryer in bays, especially wit C/C count up. From time to time KleenRite offers 30 day or money back on air shamee dryer. They put an hours meter on the unit so you can see the usage.

 

[Earl Weiss]

Both. Add air option to at least one vacs, fed from your main compressor. Cheap and easy money, my customers like being able to use time for air or vac.
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I have a seperat tire air inflator. No way to feed vacs from compressor without major excavation.

 

[MEP001]

I posted this some time back - it's the only YouTube video I've ever seen with a compressed air dryer but it seams like it'd be really cheap and easy to add to a bay, though I'd try and come up with a more durable air gun.

[video=youtube_share;KnYve70iabM]https://youtu.be/KnYve70iabM?t=91[/video]

Edit: Linked video won't auto-start at the 1:30 mark which is where the dryer part is.

I'm sure one good-sized compressor would handle this, but I'd never run a wash without a backup big enough to run it on its own.