Now that I have regained my composure from laughing about the "my wisdom" thing, I decided to share this anyway. A few months back, I ask for peoples thoughts and advice on removing moisture from compressed air. Most of the responses confirmed the best approach. I buy a bunch of crap from an auction house because no one else bids on odd-balls. If I see a brand new automobile radiator with no bids, I feel obligated to pay one dollar for it so I can cool something with it.. After collecting 3 radiators ($1.00 ea), an electric cooling fan ($1.00), a compressor head ($4.00), and lot of other crap, I had the incentive to avoid all the things I should be doing and take on another completely unnecessary project. Instead of cleaning up an old compressor tank, I decided it needed to be painted (too big for me to powder coat). Instead of rattle-can paint from my shelf, I decided to mix some left-over auto paint from 2 cars (white and dark blue metallic) I rep[aired a few years ago. Instead of doing the painting when the weather was decent (My shop is outdoors in the forest), I decided to wait until 2 days before record snow (6 feet and no electricity for 10 days). Instead of mixing enough of the color coat to cover the entire tank, I mixed just a little too little and had to mix more at night in the dark with my by-guess and by-gosh method. Instead of shooting the clear coat ASAP I waited until the next night a few hours before the snow started. I took a bunch of pictures and when I tried to copy them to my computer, my memory car was corrupt and I allowed the 'puter to scan and repair error not knowing it would reformat the card.. SO, most pictures were lost. How's that for beneficial wisdom??!!?? My goal was to increase air flow and have an outlet that never chokes down too 1/4" and have a working on-board moisture removal system like the big boys.. Before I started the build, I did some testing to confirm that I would get the desired result. Air passing through the tranny cooling part of the radiator only cooled the air by 10 to 15 degrees when dry, but filling the radiator with water cooled the air by over 100 degrees. That is what I was looking for. I busted the end plug loose from the tank (which was much harder than I expected, I snapped a good 1/2" breaker bar) to get the input to the lowest place possible. That also allowed me to use the 1/2" port on top of the tank as an outlet. I used a high end and obsolete Binks separator and altered it to auto drain along with tank auto drain system. I reconfigured another separator to use desiccant on the outlet of the tank and added another separator/regulator after that. I chose this configuration because there will be a lot collected in the unit before the tank and a desiccant has to be swapped out from time to time and won't work with an auto drain.. I rebuilt the motor (powder coat and new bearings) added a couple large liquid filled gauges, some cool color matched white wall tires (filled with foam) and this is the result..... Note: If it doesn't cool the air enough in prolonged use, I can add a circulating pump and the electric fan..

Love it all but my mostest favorite is that valve stem cover!

I was told it would blow up and I might visit Alice Kramden so I thought they were fitting. The valve stems ended up just being hole plugs because I couldn't get the tires to hold air and had to foam them..

Whew, lot of work, but end result looks great. Glad it all finally came together and works beyond your expectations. Thanks for sharing the journey and the results.

I spent 30 years working in a sand pit that believes if you can't make it you didn't need it, great looking project i can appreciate everything you went through, very very nice