5 Steps to Remove Water from Compressed Air Lines when Painting Cars 

I love this! There's 1000 videos that make a complex science experiment and an engineering marvel to remove water from your compressor lines, but Lakeside once again shows an effective and efficient method that isn't cheap.

I have the same motor guard filter unit hanging on my 12x20 portable garage I use as a spray booth, the only thing have different is I have an auto drain on my 60gal HFT compressor and two HFT Industrial Air Filter Regulators about 25ft apart running before the booth that I drain regularly.... I like that you can get clean air from a smaller unit like yours.and you get great paint results with it!

Super informative, good video!

Thanks, you saved me from spending a fortune on unnecessary items, for doing home painting projects.

Glad you posted this video....I need to run my drain out the shop wall and I keep forgetting to get the parts!! Keep up the good work.

Perfect! Answered all of my questions, thanks :)

Great information!! Much appreciated.

Great video mate, very helpful!

Very well done as usual. Thanks.

A short, efficient and informative video ❤👏

Great video Jerry packed with great tips!

Hi Jerry, on ur recommendation I just bought the same filter. Made in USA and good enough for your father so good enough for me here in OZ. Thx for the videos.

Based on your video I purchased the Motor Guard filter. I am glad I did. It is a well designed, rugged, high quality filter and Made in the USA.

Great info. I just subbed. Thank you. May God Bless.

I’m mind blown at the amount of knowledge I’ve learned from your videos and now with the tip of your filter recommendations and how you and your father used toilet paint paper for years is such a genius tip that I can’t wait to try on that motor guard filter..so glad I ran into this video and your channel for that matter . thanks you so much for these dry air tips!!..getting tired of these expensive desiccant filters..

Helpful, thanks!

good ole roll of tp, saves the day again

Very good tips n I love that toilet paper filter lol

Great tips Bud!! Water and oil are the enemy!!☺

Thank you!

Thanks

Thank you again for a great video! I was wondering if you had any techniques to fix a tailgate on a 98 chevy 1500 obs truck, the dent is on the top tail but hard to get in there with a crowbar or anything to try and push it out

Great video now this is a area that I need to understand more can you send me a link where I can purchase this filter for my compressor. also sometime in the future if you can do a video using air compressor filters for air tools. thank you Jerry very helpful love your channal stay safe

Great video again - thank you! How much line from the compressor to the wall filter do you need to cool the air enough?

Clever Dad ~~~

New subscriber, what kind of shows or boots do you have on? Look very comfy!

Another great video Jerry. Years ago when I was occasionally painting cars I had a dedicated air hose for painting that I thought would eliminate contaminates that were in my other hoses. Do you think it makes any difference?

Thanks for the brand preference you use. With so many to choose from online it gets kinda overwhelming. Side note question, I have a 5 hp 30 gallonCraftsman compressor as well and was thinking of upsizing to a 60 gallon because people say thats the minimum you need. I dont want to upgrade and spend the money if i dont need to. Have you ever seen the need to go bigger? Or are you just fine with that size. Great vids by the way

Hey Lakeside. Great video. I have a dedicated airline for painting. But I sometimes use another line when I am in a hurry to do a small part. That is when the inline filter comes in handy. I should drain my tank more often though. I use air almost every second or third day but only drain it when I go to do a paint job that will take me more than 30 minutes. When I do drain my tank, there seems to be a mixture of oil and water come out. Where does the oil come from? I watch all of your videos in order to learn a little each time. Thanks for sharing.🍁👍👍

Good advice... Or you can also put a air drier and water trap in line with the compressor pump to air reservoir. still use a oil and moisture descant filter. And also use an air filter at the gun.

I've been wondering for awhile if you could hook up a vacuum pump to the compressor drain to remove any residual moisture that didn't drain out through gravity. Basically the same idea as evacuating an AC system by boiling it away. I can't find anything similar online, and it might be overkill, but I can't be the only person who has thought of it.

Just with the motor guard and the disposable filter is gonna be enough to not have fish eyes when spray painting? I've seen modifications like using an ac condenser to cool the air down, another one with an electric fan doing extra cooling. All of that is overkill if I only want to get rid of water?

0:28 "If you are scared of spiders like me". Nice, you identify as a spider : ).

Hello Is it the m30 or m60? Did you modify it to be able to put a toilet paper roll ? Some guys say you need to modify it, can you give me some details please ?

That small of a compressor won’t generate much heat like a bigger one thus less condensation, I’m actually surprised you get by with it, I have 30 feet of sloped piping with a water trap regulator then the 🧻 motor guard it will still throw water from running a lot, so when I paint I have a refillable desiccant line with humidity gauge, then it’s dry and clean and you know when it’s not.

Q. How are you running a wizzer wheel on a 1 hp compressor?

Friend can show what in side looks like try too make one please

Where do you get that filter from? Thanks

so Charmin TP ... in a ... 'pinch'

I've been getting small fish eyes in my paint jobs and thats with a refrigerated air dryer and an inexpensive water/oil separator at the compressor, and also the small red filters on the gun. I have a pretty elaborate setup for a home shop 80 gallon compressor w/automatic tank drain timer. Water is a very small issue for me. It's the oil mist and maybe some dust issues coming from the air. I've seen a lot of guys use the Motor Guard toilet paper filters for spray painting. I just ordered one. I'm gonna set it up like you do with some quick disconnects and use it only for spray painting. I also have a couple of brand new hoses that I'll use exclusively for spray painting. From what I understand it's important to open it up and dry out the filter when you're not using it regularly or change the filter out once a week if you use it regularly. Is that what you do? Nothing crushes my nuts worse than working very hard to get a beautifully prepped surface only to get fisheyes and dust in the final paint job. I can deal with a little dust but fisheyes are soul crushing.

The cure to fisheye 👍

So with the motor guard it would replace a desiccant dryer? I plan on painting car parts

there is more basic things to do first, the first one is to locate the compressor air intake where the air is the dryer possible if you wet the floor of your garage when painting, the second is install an aftercooler between the compressor pump and the air tank to insure that the tank stays cool, another way is to install e lenght of hose that you'll drop in a drum filled with cold water then install a filter so the air will be cooled and the water will trap before reaching the spray gun.

where can i get the tp filter? thanks, bill in w mich

Lashed rain here for the last 2 weeks, place is awash - despite us having "fancy" traps for moisture all around our air system, draining the compressor & lines frequently.... damn water in the lines today.. not much turns a respray job South so fast as water coming through the airline.. Bain in the pollocks barely covers it when there's moisture coming into the gun and you're busy spraying a roof. Inline trap on the gun too.. where does the moisture drip out of? Just before the on-gun trap, naturally. Down onto the roof... GRRRR!

Typically how long does a motorgaurd filter last? I read through the comments and found where you said you’ll use a toilet paper roll for one job, but I’m curious if it’s worth it for a light duty hobbyist to buy the actual motorgaurd filter.

how much psi loss going through these filters ?

Do I get the 1/2 or 1/4 inch model?

do you still use the m 30 i'm wanna buy one having fisheyes BC i don't got a fillter other then an inline one

Why not just mount the Motor Guard at the end of the hose because the hose might have contaminants in it? and when you're done, you can just remove the filter? I planned on using this for a plasma cutter. Maybe spray painting is different.

What size air hose are you using?

Just be sure to change the Motor Guard filter weekly, or at least open it up to let the housing dry out. I left my closed up and sitting idle for ~6 months. When I opened my M-60 up the corrosion was so bad I had to cut the filter element out. The housing was shot. Odd for a product that was designed to trap and hold moisture. I don't expect it to last forever, but... I suspect they are painting the housings and not power coating them like others have said. I can't see a proper powder coating allowing the moisture to get to the aluminum housing. So, change the filter or open and dry weekly.

Get it amazon?

1-2 $ for disposable harbor freight air seperator.... the good ol days, sheesh....

You never have issues with the toilet paper coming apart?

dont paint with charmin in your motorgaurd it fills your paint with fibers

Thank you, very informative. Much appreciated.