Flowjet pumps

[graysalchemy]

Hi everyone

I know a few of you use flowjet air powered pumps. I am just about to set mine up and I want to know if you have to use lubricated air in them. I am thinking not as in their intended environment a pub they would be run on co2, but all my air tools and machines in my workshop have to be lubricated so it goes against my thinking. :wha: :wha: .

Any thoughts

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AG

 

[Aleman]

Normal Air/CO2 works fine on mine

 

[jamesb]

Same here, just normal.

Most pubs won't run them on CO2 either, it's too expensive. Most have got a compressor around the place.

If it's a big pub, they might run them off nitrogen (from a nitrogen extractor, not bottles).

 

[graysalchemy]

Thanks for that I will run them on my un lubricated line.

Just got them running sprayed my walls with stale beer :sick: :sick:.

Noisy as well makes a mockery of having a silent compressor :rofl: :rofl:

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AG

 

[jamesb]

I quite like the noise (tho the compressor is where I can't hear it).

One tip though. Don't ever try and take them apart for cleaning. You'll never manage to get them back together again. I just run chlorinated caustic through mine.

 

[graysalchemy]

Thanks for that tip I wasn't planning on taking them apart they look like they are spring loaded inside and you would never get the bits back in again. :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Aleman]

It depends on how patient you are . . . it is possible to get them back together . . . . and even working . . . . . Now where are the two that bounced off the wall last week :whistle: :whistle: