The following short video explains the differences between the three styles of Air Knives offered by EXAIR – The Super, Standard and Full-Flow.
Please reach out to myself or one of our application engineers if you need help figuring which Air knife suits your application best!
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When I am working on a project around my home, my wife often starts with a guess as to how many trips to the home improvement or plumbing supply store this project is going to take. (The Gif above is me trying to determine how many choice words will be used.) I try to foil her plans by either already having the first trip done before I start the project, or by buying a surplus of anything and everything I could possibly need on that first trip then returning what I don’t use.
In all actuality, the problem normally comes from working on a house that was built in 1951 and building codes were not the same back then. Whenever it is a new project, say installing a garden fence or building a trampoline platform, I can plan everything out and know all of the variables ahead of time. This results in a single trip to the store per project and more often than not a project that is on budget. That’s why we strive to help our customers here at EXAIR to be prepared for their upcoming projects.
When you are trying to implement a new Super Air Knife into your process, whether it be to cool, clean, or dry a process or product off, we don’t want you to have to go to another vendor, or even have to run back and forth to the tool crib 15 times just to get the knife hooked up to compressed air. To help simplify this, we offer Super Air Knives w/ Plumbing Kit Installed. Whenever a Super Air Knife is 24″ or longer is installed, the compressed air should be supplied to both ends of the knife. When lengths reach 48″ and higher even more ports will need to be plumbed along the length of the knife. This ensures even distribution of compressed air for the full length of the knife. While EXAIR does offer all the information on supplying air to the proper inlets for every given length of Super Air Knife, we also offer to simplify it even further by offering an installed plumbing kit to further simplify installation in the field.
This feature leaves the installation team with minimal points to plumb compressed air once the knife is in your facility. The Aluminum Super Air Knife uses general duty air hose with brass fittings and the 303 and 316 Stainless Steel Super Air Knives use 316SS tube and fittings. An additional pressure gauge is included with longer lengths to install at halfway points in the plumbing kit to verify the operating pressure of the knife.
Even when purchasing the Plumbing Kit Installed option we still offer detailed CAD models as well as PDF and 2D drawings of the knives to make it possible for an installation to be planned out and facilitate an easy, quick, and efficient installation.
If you would like to discuss what Super Air Knife w/ Plumbing Kit Installed would best suit your application, contact us.
Brian Farno
Application Engineer
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In Russ Bowman’s most recent blog, More Power? I DO Think So…, he mentioned several key questions that an EXAIR Application Engineer will ask whenever we are troubleshooting a compressed air application that is not performing to the standards needed. The blog talks about very common questions that we will ask customers when they call in with an existing compressed air application. He then goes on to explain the usefulness of how many of the EXAIR products are adjustable using shims which are more often than not, patented.
Answers to questions that we frequently get from customers, on almost every single product we offer are all available for free, without even having to call, write, or tweet an Application Engineer. In the EXAIR Knowledge Base we offer a full section on FAQs. This section is broken into each product category, and contains a wealth of information. Most of these answers can also be found within our full catalog but we have streamlined to the most commonly asked questions in the FAQ section.
All of the product categories have even been recently revised to include questions for our products that have been released throughout the year. There are now questions that have answer for the 108″ Super Air Knife, High Lift Reversible Drum Vac, and even PEEK Super Air Nozzles. We will also continue to expand this section of our website to include any new products and or questions that start to arise. So if you have a question that you don’t see on there, let us know and you just might see it get posted.
Brian Farno
Application Engineer
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF
As Lee mentioned in his blog yesterday, the amount of technology we use to send a text is more technology than most of our ancestors saw in their lifetime. This has made most of us very impatient or wanting to have everything we need right now. This has not only become present when you are using technology to do something but when you are even doing things like shopping. This is done by finding those one stop shops. If you can go to one place and get everything you need while dealing with a single person or a single transaction then you save valuable time.
EXAIR is your one stop shop for all of your compressed air needs. Whether you need to use compressed air with a pressurized liquid to coat a part, or using an air knife to dry the part off. We can even help you figure out a way to reject defective parts and remove trim from the process then turn around and help your operator clean up the shop when the process is done. These can all be done with standard stock products from EXAIR that can all be shipped same day as long as we get the call by 3 P.M. EST.
So no matter your application, if it uses compressed air give us a call. We’ll help you out and try to make sure you don’t have to go to several other companies to get the job done.
Brian Farno
Application Engineer
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF
