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Making a Desiccant Air Dryer with Silica Gel

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awemawson:
Now as the three air assemblies of this set up are all from different manufacturers, mounting it on a wall wouldn't be easy - unless I made up some customised brackets to accommodate their differing mounting styles.

A splash of lay out fluid, a bit of die grinding, drilling, taping, bending, zinc primering and black top coating later and we have an integrated assembly ready to fix on the wall.

awemawson:
Then, like some 'just in time' manufacturing conglomerate, the girl from My Hermes arrived carrying a 3 kg tub of self indicating Silica Gel - I reckon she'd been spying on me and was waiting until just the right time to deliver  :ddb:

So - shove the crystals in - wack it on the wall and try it out  :clap:

awemawson:
Does it work?

Well time only will tell. I did do a test cut on the Plasma Table but considerable time hopefully will have to elapse to see if the stuff changes colour ......... unless we do another test :lol:

So - shove a bit of the Silica Gel in a 1 litre pyrex beaker, drip some tap water on it and watch the results.

... well it certainly changes colour so that's a good sign  :clap:

Spurry:
Andrew, I think you would have made a good assistant to Black Adder. "Sire, I have a cunning plan..."
Neat job, it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the crystals to change colour in your filter.
Pete

awemawson:
Thanks for the kind words (I think !!) Pete - I've been musing over a desiccant drier for quite some time, but finding a suitable container is what stumped me.

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