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Accessories for Your Compressed Air Products

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Here at EXAIR we are very proud of our Intelligent Compressed Air Products. We have spent a lot of time discussing their many benefits, including their efficiency, the fact that many have no moving parts, little to no maintenance, meeting or exceeding OSHA safety standards for noise or dead end pressure. One thing we don’t talk as much about is the accessories that go along with and complement our products. Several of these accessory items are the reason why our compressed air products can boast about having little to no maintenance, or reduced noise levels. In this blog I want to cover some of these unsung heroes.

From left to right, a few value-added accessories for your Vortex Tube: Hot Muffler, Cold Muffler, Automatic Drain Filter Separator, Oil Removal Filter, and Solenoid Valve/Thermostat Kit.

Some of the most popular accessories we offer are our compressed air Filters and Regulators. We suggest using these with all our products (or even with ones that aren’t ours).

The Filter Separator is designed to remove moisture, dirt, and rust from your compressed air system. The 5-micron filter element ensures that contaminants don’t clog or harm your compressed air equipment.

An Oil Removal Filter (which should always be installed after our Filter Separator) provides even more precise filtration by getting rid of oil and solid particles with a 0.03-micron element.

Our Pressure Regulators let you choose the operating pressure. At EXAIR, we always advise running at the lowest pressure necessary to complete the task. Pressure Regulators help you achieve that, reducing unnecessary air usage and fine-tuning the performance of EXAIR products for your specific application.

We have some accessories designed specifically for certain products. For our Line Vacs, there’s the Line Vac Hose. You can also find Thermostats and Solenoid Valves that work great with our Cabinet Coolers, and if you’re using Vortex Tubes, we suggest checking out our Mufflers.

When it comes to our Air Knives, we offer a variety of fantastic options:

If you’re looking for a simple and dependable way to mount your Air Knife, our Universal Air Knife Mounting System is just what you need.

If your project needs something longer than our stock Air Knives, or if you want to manage different sections of the air flow separately, our Coupling Bracket Kits are ideal.

And if you want to simplify the plumbing for your Air Knife, don’t miss our Air Knife Plumbing Kits. They’re suitable for all Air Knives that are longer than 24 inches.

If you’re looking for plumbing options, we’ve got a range of compressed air hoses and fittings that will simplify things for you.

Our Coiled Hoses work great with our Safety Air Guns, giving you more freedom of movement while you work.

Our Compressed Air Hoses are often used alongside our Industrial Housekeeping products to provide the necessary reach for the drum and dolly.

Finally, if you’re looking for a way to mount or position your Air Nozzles, check out our Magnetic Bases, Stay Set Hoses, and Swivel Fittings that can help create a complete setup.

No matter what your application requires or the product you need, we’ve got a variety of complementary accessory products that will simplify installation and adjustments. If you have any questions about these or any other EXAIR products, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Al Wooffitt
Application Engineer

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Getting Prepared for Static

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Here at EXAIR we are finally starting to experience cooler weather. Over the coming weeks we will start to see the temperature steadily drop (with the occasional spike here and there just to make things difficult!). One thing that inevitably comes with cooler weather is static issues. Before we get to that point, it is always good to review what options we have to remove static. There are two primary ways to eliminate it — Active Static Elimination, and Passive Static Elimination. But which method is better? To answer this we need to know the difference between them:

Passive Static Elimination, as the name implies, gets rid of static passively. Typically, this solution comes in the form of a bare wire or some conductive material like copper, which helps create a path for the static charge to disperse. The benefit of this method is that once it’s set up, you can pretty much forget about it (well, sort of — we’ll touch on that later).

Passive Static Eliminating Bar

This kind of static elimination doesn’t require any power and has virtually no operating costs. However, the downside is that the conductive material has to maintain contact, often dragging along surfaces. This can cause the eliminators to wear out over time, meaning they will eventually need replacing (so you can’t completely forget about it). If your product is fragile, the contact from the eliminator might harm the surface. Plus, passive eliminators tend to gather dust and debris, which could end up on your product. Lastly, a passive eliminator struggles to maintain contact with objects of different shapes and complexities.

Active Static Elimination, like the Static Eliminators Product Line from EXAIR, provides several methods to effectively remove static from a surface without any physical contact with the product. This immediately addresses the drawbacks of the previously mentioned passive eliminators.

Gen4 Static Eliminators

If your product has an intricate design, the ionized airflow from many of our Gen4 products can be aimed to reach every part of it. Since there’s no direct contact, Active Static Elimination won’t harm your product’s surface. Plus, you won’t have to worry about contaminating the product because of this non-contact approach. In fact, our line of Static Eliminators that operate on compressed air is excellent at clearing away dust and debris from surfaces.

Lastly, our Active Static Elimination products are built to last and won’t degrade over time like Passive solutions do.

On top of these great benefits, EXAIR will honor a 30 day guarantee to test our products in your facility.  As well as honor a 5 year built to last warranty on compressed air products and a 1 year warranty on any electrical component.

If you have an issue with static that you would like to discuss, please give us a call.

Al Wooffitt
Application Engineer

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The 30-Day Guarantee Gives You Confidence.

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When you make a purchase, you want to have confidence that the solution that you’ve spent money on is going to work. With many of the applications that we discuss with customers, the solutions are tried and tested. If your electrical panel is getting too hot, then an EXAIR Cabinet Cooler is exactly what you need. If there’s static on your assembly line, a Gen4 Static Elimination product is the way to go. And if you need to blow off excess water from an extruded pipe, a Super Air Wipe is the perfect fix.

There are plenty of situations where the solution isn’t clear-cut. We believe our products can make a difference, but with so many variables, it’s impossible to just plug everything into a formula and predict the exact outcome. The only way to know for sure is to test. That’s where EXAIR’s 30-day unconditional guarantee comes into play. Every one of our cataloged products is covered by this guarantee. Once you buy one of these items, you have a month to really test it out; change the angle, tweak the operating pressure, or swap out shims. If you manage to find the right setup to fix your issue, awesome! If not, we’ll gladly take it back and give you a full refund! The only thing you need to cover is the shipping to return it to us.

A great example of where testing is key is our Line Vacs. There are several factors to consider: the bulk density of the material, its size, whether it’s abrasive, the desired conveyance rate, and the distance for conveyance – both vertical and horizontal. By using the data we’ve gathered from our controlled in-house tests, we’re going to be able to give you a solid recommendation on which model will suit you best. However, to truly understand how our Line Vac will perform with your specific material and operational conditions, it needs to be put through its paces at your facility. When you buy from us, you get 30 days to try it out risk-free.

At EXAIR, we want to ensure you are getting the best possible solution. Our 30-day unconditional guarantee is one way that we make that a reality. If you would like to discuss how our products can help with your application, give us a call!

Al Wooffitt
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Informal Video: Model 7905 Static Meter

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With technology today, many materials are changing to non-conductive plastics and coatings, especially in the automotive, medical, and paper industries.  As this happens, the manufacturing of these items becomes susceptible to static electricity.  Static is caused by non-conductive materials having the electrons “rubbed” from one atom to another.  This generates highly charged areas, either negative or positive.  Like magnets, the same charges repel and opposite charges attract.  The electrically charged atoms can cause issues with stacking, alignment, dirt, labeling, and shocking operators.  As the saying goes: “What gets measured, gets done”. If you don’t know the source of the static problem, or the severity, it’s often difficult to implement a proper solution. So how do we measure static? You can use a static meter. Here is a video showing you the features and functions of the EXAIR 7905 Static Meter.

John Ball
Application Engineer
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