Can I use this water separator?

[85 Jimmy]

I need a water separator for my compressor and found a couple of these at work. I'm curios if they'll work for me if I get some reducers. Also, what's the second reservoir for? It just has a rubber tube that runs from the housing to the bottom of it. It's a Legris brand, I've never heard of them and can't find anything other than they sell push lock fittings on the Internet.
I just want to keep the water out of my tools and to be able to paint without getting water in the paint. When I run my die grinder for a while it starts dripping water out of it.

 

[76zimmer]

if there is just a tube running to the bottom of the housing I'm not sure it will be too effective...generally the water has to have a place to condense, like a centrifuge action that will give the water something to stick to and condense enough to drop out of the air flow.
Look up a few air/moisture separators and check out their construction and compare your unit to them.

 

[85 Jimmy]

I'll have to take a picture with the reservoirs removed. The left side, where the air goes in first, has a dealio that comes down and is has little fins in it. The reservoir on the right that's the second one just has a little house that goes down into the bowl.

 

[skunked]

The one side (with the psi gauge) is an air filter and regulator right?

 

[85 Jimmy]

Here it is without the bowls on. From my google image search it looks like a standard oil/water separator.

 

[85 Jimmy]

I don't know why these pictures keep posting upside down.

 

[skunked]

second one looks like a lubricator

 

[dremu]

Pretty sure that's your basic FRL, filter, regulator, lubricator. Great for air tools proper (grinder, drill), wherein you filter out the dust and water from the compressor, and put in a smidge of oil for the tool.

Not so great for painting where you don't want oil in the mix. But then you just don't use the lubricator.

-- A