<VV> Re: VV Drying Agent

[Tony Underwood]

At 12:36 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
>Tony,
>     Most likely they are Silica Gel material which is a commom 
> drying agent usually packed in permeable bags with all sorts of things.



That's what I expected to find, but when I got one of the cannisters 
open I found this muslin sack of what looked like chipped/ground 
cork, same color and about the same weight.    The stuff is rice 
grain sized and light weight.    If it gets wet it gets rather 
"muddy" and clumps together.   If it really gets wet, it will 
eventually dissolve in water.


No idea what the stuff is...  but I'm likely to replace it with kitty 
litter when it gets exhausted...  pour the stuff into a cloth bag and 
drop it into the cannister.    The saving grace of this light brown 
stuff is that it doesn't really produce much dust at all.

Can't say that about kitty litter.    :)    It's a handy way to dry 
compressed air though, if I can keep the dust out of the air stream.



tony..