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Waste Oil Heater => Waste Oil Filtering => Topic started by: surplus 6 on April 15, 2013, 03:45:14 am

Title: washable ss filter
Post by: surplus 6 on April 15, 2013, 03:45:14 am

would this be any good for inline filtering of used motor oil

http://www.oilybits.com/filters/elements-complete-with-housings/3/8-inch-particulate-filters/prod_47.html

Title: Re: washable ss filter
Post by: surplus 6 on April 15, 2013, 03:46:07 am

forgot to say gravity fed, drip feed

Title: Re: washable ss filter
Post by: doug on April 15, 2013, 08:30:49 pm

6,

 Are you thinking of using that filter inline between your day tank/bucket and the burner?

 If it was me I would screen/filter my waste oil before I put it in the day tank. I would think that after awhile of putting unfilter in the tank it would end up with a lot of sediment in the bottom of the tank.

 I would also use one of these to screen the oil as I poured it into the day tank and it's washable.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-5-x-5-Gallon-75-600-Micron-Bucket-EZ-strainer-Filter-Biodiesel-WVO-Pail-/281070284759?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4171182fd7#ht_1899wt_679



  I would also install a water separater inline from the tank to the burner.

Title: Re: washable ss filter
Post by: surplus 6 on April 16, 2013, 02:21:36 am

I was thinking of screening/filtering oil before or as it went in the bucket, this was going to be a belt and braces type extra filter, or do drip feed systems not need any extra filtering after the initial filter into bucket? never thought about the water trap, thanks.
Tony

Title: Re: washable ss filter
Post by: surplus 6 on April 16, 2013, 02:25:21 am

http://www.oilybits.com/filters/elements-complete-with-housings/3/8-inch-water-trap-filters/prod_724.html
from the same site, water trap and filter in one, happy days