Originally Posted by
flyinwilly
You really need clean , dry air and lots of it for the 65. The filter on the machine is nowhere good enough.
I use a motorcraft M60 filter as the first filter. Then I go into a coalescing filter before the dessicant dryer and then another coalescing filter on the output of the dryer. The coalescing filters came with the dryer setup. My air is perfectly dry and my cuts are much better than before the dryer was added and my consumables seem to last forever. I also have water traps in the permanent air lines around the shop because I can switch the dryer in and out of the supply line. We don't use it when we are just running air tools, etc., just when plasma cutting or painting.
Get the air as dry as you can and you'll eliminate a lot of problems down the road.
Willy