EXAIR uses our blog platform to communicate everything from new product announcements to personal interests to safe and efficient use of compressed air. We have recently passed our 5 year anniversary of posting blogs (hard for us to believe) and I thought it appropriate to share a few of the entries which explain some more of the technical aspects of compressed air.
Here is a good blog explaining EXAIR’s 6 steps to optimization, a useful process for improving your compressed air efficiency:
One of the Above 6 steps is to provide secondary storage, a receiver tank, to eliminate pressure drops from high use intermittent applications. This blog entry addresses how to size a receiver tank properly:
Thanks for supporting our blog over the past 5 years, we appreciate it. If you need any support with your sustainability or safety initiatives, or with your compressed air applications please contact us.
The other day, I had the pleasure of helping a caller select an Atomizing Spray Nozzle for a particular application. They needed to apply a thin, quick drying coat of vanishing oil to the inside diameter of a round, deep drawn metal part. They were currently flooding the ID with it, and the part had to sit overnight to dry.
Since it was a cylindrical hole, it sounded like an ideal application for a Round Pattern nozzle, and, since they didn’t have an easy way to pressurize the oil source, we selected a Model SR2040SS No-Drip Siphon Fed Round Pattern Atomizing Spray Nozzle. By adjusting the siphon height and air pressure applied, they were able to quickly achieve the desired flow pattern and coating thickness.
Now, they’re able to take the part directly to the next step in their fabrication process, without the overnight drying cycle.
Model 7905 Digital Static Meter comes with certification of the accuracy and calibration traceable to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). A hard-shell case and 9 volt battery are also included.
As we finish up 2013 and head into the winter season in the Northern hemisphere, static problems begin to become more prevalent again due to the general lower humidity present in most manufacturing areas.
Some of the resulting symptoms of the static condition are: discharges to personnel, jamming, tearing, discharges to machines and sensors. Finally, discharges within a charged material can also cause blemishes to materials that must have absolute clarity within them. We’ve all been the victim of a nasty static discharge at some point or another. You can have the right tool in using an active static eliminator. But how do you know if you have your static eliminator located in the right position for maximum effectiveness?
That is where the EXAIR Static Meter model 7905 comes into play. This easy to use meter will indicate where the static field(s) are located in their process, how large they are in terms of kV / 1 inch distance from the charged target, and their polarity (+ or -). The meter can make direct readings up to +/- 20 kV at 1 inch distance.
The above pieces of information are handy for knowing where to place static eliminators for any given process. Static cannot be seen directly, and so your best bet for implementing an effective strategy is to utilize the Static Meter so that you can maximize static field reduction and minimize the effects of static re-generation by locating your equipment at the best possible points in the process.
Last week, Brian introduced Movember to the EXAIR blog this year. I’m pretty sure Movember was started as a flimsy excuse for some Aussies to grow their facial hair and not have their bosses and wives give them a hard time. I fully support this plan. Having said that, it is very difficult to talk about men’s health with other men. One of the difficulties is it is impossible to feel manly, while mentioning a prostate exam, but if women can go through breast examinations and child birth, we can deal with going to the doctor every year. Do you know the one thing that makes you feel manly? Outrageous facial hair. So I’m hoping by the end of the month, I will be able to pull off talking about testicular cancer, prostate exams, and mental health without making awful of jokes about the subject matter. I wouldn’t bet on my growing up that much by growing a beard, but it is worth a shot. *Note: I had a very funny joke here that made my editor spit his coffee from laughter, unfortunately, this a family friendly blog, so we had to cut it.*
On Halloween, I had my last full face shave until December 1st, but I have been trimming my neck. Here are the results so far.
1 week beard – not weak, but week.
I have reached the stage in beard growing, where I now need to do some trimming to keep it neat, and it itches like crazy.
(Alas, complaining about facial hair being itchy is distinctly unmanly, so I will stop that. Joe is photobombing me in this picture to keep me from posting a selfie, which is also distinctly unmanly.)
Speaking of health issues. According to Michigan’s OSHA Five Minute Safety Talk No. 13, “Air pressure in excess of 30 lbs. can drive chips, as well as scale from inside the piping, into your face and eyes with the force of shrapnel. Such air driven missiles still do damage when they bounce off a surface, spinning much like a high speed cutting head. Air pressure against the skin may penetrate deeply to cause internal hemorrhage and intense pain.”
When using compressed air, please ensure that you use an engineered solution to prevent accidentally dead ending over 30 PSIG against human skin and be sure to wear all PPE and ensure that proper shielding is in place to prevent flying chips from creating and unsafe situation.
This month EXAIR is running a promo on two products that will conserve compressed air and comply with OSHA’s standards. Please take advantage of our month long Super Air Gun promotion for a free Super Air Gun with a purchase of any Super Air Knife.
The Soft Grip Super Air Gun will conserve compressed air, while providing a strong blow off with up to 3.3 pounds of force. By replacing open tubes and cheap air guns with EXAIR’s line of Safety Air Guns, you will reduce the noise level in your facility and prevent dead ending over 30 PSIG of compressed air against human skin, which is a distinct threat to Men’s (and Women’s) health in the work place.
The Super Air Knife creates a laminar sheet of air which will cool, dry, blow off, open, float or separate your parts. All of this process can be done while keeping the noise level below 69 dBA and providing up to 15 ounces of force with a 6″ long air knife, when it is supplied with 80 PSIG.
