Help setting up my Nordson

[mansonozz]

Hey guys, I'm hoping I can find some help here in setting up my new coating system. I've never worked with pneumatics before so I'm at a loss as to how this all goes together. Trips to the stores to look at available fittings and such have proven worthless.

I just got a Nordson Surecoat system and, amongst other things, am clueless what I need to get to hook it up to air. It's funny, I've used a similar system in the past and know how to work it, but setting it up and setting up an air system is all foreign to me. I'm sure it's got to be an easy and obvious thing, but it's lost on me and I need to get into operation.

Anyway the control panel itself has a push-in style tubing connector. This is where the air is supposed to hook up to. That's fine, but what type of fittings and such am I going to have to run out of my compressor so this tubing can connect into the air line? All I know about air tools is quick connect fittings and the like.

I can provide pictures if anyone isn't sure what I'm talking about and would like to see. Thanks in advance!

[Blazin_Jason]

Post some pics. The surecoat has those plastic lines that go to the pickup tube and gun. The main air supply in should be on the bottom of the gun using npt and your choice of fittings.

[David58]

Ok you need to have a fitting that will connect off you air supply to fit the hose to you gun. If you supply hose is blue --check it to see if it is a 10mm plastic hose.You can put a plug in you pipe coming from you AC and tap it for the fitting.Also air supply to a sure coat is min 60psi -- max--100psi .make sure the air is oil free -- if not filter ,filter filter , or dryer/chiller is better.

Hope this helps

David

[FigureLLC]

you probably won't find the fittings you need locally, if for no other reason than bc the nordson tubes are all metric. go onto mcmaster and find a tube compression fitting -to- pipe thread of whatever size you want. the compression fitting will have the main piece that the pipe thread is on, then a collar that screws onto the main piece, a shoulder that slides onto the tube between the collar and the main piece, and a ferrule or sleeve that slides INTO the tube to keep it from crushing when the collar is torqued. and don't over-torque it.

[mansonozz]

Thanks, I've got this figured out in the meantime. For some reason I wasn't getting my email notifications so I thought nobody had responded. Didn't mean to leave you hanging! I got familiar w/all these fittings and such and found what I needed.

For what it's worth I've got a filter, water separator, dessicant dryer in line and then a coalescent filter off the air feed I use for the powder.

Now onto other issues with it