I saw CarolinaGirl's way of filtering oil. I thought it was a great idea, as I had a few of those filters around anyway along with the activated char. Somehow, someway I found myself googling oil filtration and ran across the "TP Oil Filter" invented back in the 50's. Seems some are using them today with great results in vehicles and other equipment. So, I grabbed a 2 liter bottle, pulled the cardboard out of the center of a roll of TP, and it fit very tightly in side of the bottle that I cut the bottom off of. I was initially going to use the water filter as well, but I figured I would run it without just to see how it does.
I gotta say, it does really good.
Before - this was a single run of new oil. I dump all oil every batch. I plan to filter, then re-use. Clean oil = happy pump.
The Setup - there is about 2 inches below the TP. The TP is compressed a bit where it funnels in. The oil did slow down when it got to this, but it would just help. At the moment, I have the bottle taped to the jar to keep it from falling over. I'll make a stand and probably put a cap with tube that would drain directly into a clean oil jug.
After: sure, it is yellow. The orig oil has a slight tint. But all oil changes color when heated. Nice a translucent. I see no need to run any other filtering.
The nice thing about this setup, is when you feel the TP is not moving the oil well enough, toss it all, make a new one. Oh, I used Charmin as that is what I had handy. I have read that Scotts 1000 works very well on the vehicle filters.
Mark
