air compressor 'DESICCANT' for my 1984??

[gervais]

hi all
continuing my maintenance on my 1984 that never have been well maintain so i have no idea what it looks this
DESICCANT things that i will changed it.

i have not been able to find it on Ebay yet,i may not search the right way,can you help me find it?

my bike has 95,000 km and i have no idea,info to know if it has been changed.

thanks for the help

gervais

[julimike54]

Bake it back into good stuff
viewtopic.php?t=1582#p5243

[gervais]

well
since my post i have read many weard text,like one that guy's are taking the desiccant in a microwave and heat it,,,,,,,man i did not beleive that.

these are chimicals stufff ,,you could have blown,,i dont know but these have a "limited life time" those products so after a time they become absolete.

now i will check where i can find a bottle of it!

Gef

[oldishwinger]

hi all
continuing my maintenance on my 1984 that never have been well maintain so i have no idea what it looks this
DESICCANT things that i will changed it.

i have not been able to find it on Ebay yet,i may not search the right way,can you help me find it?

my bike has 95,000 km and i have no idea,info to know if it has been changed.

thanks for the help

gervais

its a fiddly job to get to it, seems to quite a bit of it on ebay search for Desiccant and it shows up as as silica bead

[WINGER3]

I put the desiccant from mine in the microwave just like the article said to and it came back looking just like new and had no bad effects to it, it works.

[gervais]

well
how long in the microwave and at what level??

gervais

[SilverDave]

I dried mine at medium power for about 6 to 8 30 second microwave bits .. You wanna sneak up on it.

http://qqjky.qjhbf.servertrust.com/v/vs ... %20Gel.pdf .

but you can also buy it from Amazon.com :

https://www.amazon.com/Gallon-Premium-S ... beads&th=1

In my experience, as a retired chemist, as long as it has not melted, or cooked , or turned to powder , or gone black ...... you can re-activate it back to bright blue essentially forever


SilverDave

[WINGER3]

I cain't recall how long but I used medium power and when most all turned white again I stopped it.

[larryc]

I put mine in the oven at about 200F for about 10-15 minutes iirc, and it was fine. I didn't know about using a microwave on it.

[Rednaxs60]

Used the oven as well. 400 deg for about 15 minutes, went from pink to blue real quick.

[AZgl1800]

the ole oven is the safest way.

just spread it out on a cookie sheet and bake it at 200°F for 30 minutes or until it turns bright pink or is it blue?


https://www.tedpella.com/technote_html/desiccant.pdf

I thought it went blue when wet, been 50 years since I worked with that stuff.

[Rednaxs60]

Here are the before and after pics:

Dessicant wet

Dry Dessicant

[gervais]

ok
so i could watch in the micro wave,,
the main problem is,,,can i do it in our kitchen m-w,,,,,,

thats another story

Gf

[WingAdmin]

I've never tried the microwave, but being that the point is to bake the moisture out of it, I have always used the toaser oven, set to broil. It takes just a few minutes, and works very well. See: How to service your air compressor dessicant