filtering waste veg oil
 

i have been reading a lot about bypass filters... and the good ones
use scott toilet paper... it is even said that they will remove water...

So it all of a sudden hit me that we could filter the wvo with scott toilet
paper....what do you think...

first off, dont just po po this idea... they are using these frantz filters on
cars for 50 years..

Is there a question here?
or a suggestion?

How do you filter WVO with TP?

Doesn't seem like this has any chance of working at all.

Bad visions there
 

I hate to even think about TP as a possible filter. All I see is a great big sticky paper wad. WVO evaporates into a glue that NASA could use to secure tiles to the space shuttle. Adding paper to this glue is just scarry. I get an occasional leaf or two stuck to my drums out back. They don’t just wash off. I can’t imagine getting rump-ribbon stuck to them. :eek:

Blueranger,

Stick to the filter bags available from Greasel.

P E H

i found a filter
 

i found a guy using tp to filter wvo... and he uses a 3 inch
pvc pipe... puts 4 rolls of scott tp in it... then he also uses
swiming pool filter... and he says it comes out clear...

try it
 

i will whip something up and try it this weekend... and see what
happens...

BTDT
works but takes waaay too long and the replacement is a real mess.

I have heard about car filters that use TP as a filter canister but I never had the guts to try it.

As far as WVO filtering there has to be and is a better way.

Danny

use the filter socks from mcmaster-carr or the omni home water filter method with the string wound filter.

It's been around for a long time
 

Commonly known as the Franz Filter, but it has been sold under other names also. I know it goes back to the 50's and possibly farther than that. But that is what they used, a common roll of toilet tissue.
And word was that they did a right good job also. Then the Harvard Corp, of the Harvard, IL area, took the idea and really went commercial with it. See their filter line up here.
http://www.harvardfiltration.com/class1.htm
They have a full line of automotive and industrial filters. I used their filters for many years on a pair of 8V71 Detroits that I had. They had a paper roll that just exactly fit the 1000 cc luberfiner bypass filter.
But all their filters use rolls of paper, much like toilet tissue, but tested and prooven in their filtering capabilities. They will pull out every molecule of water until you can not pass any more oil through them and they consistantly filter down to 1 micron. That is good filtration - but it is slow!

slow
 

the oxen is slow,
but the earth is patient.

OK, what grade of TP are we talking about here? Could it be 50's grade or CHARMIN?

scott
 

all the people doing it seem to be using scott the stuff that is sold
indivdually.... the kind of stuff you would not want to use...

not the charmin... you want the stuff with 1200 sheets..

12 pak of Scotts tissue is $7.95 or so; clumpy messy and not washable.

1 good McMaster Carr 5 micron sock filter is $ 6.95 and washable, probably lasts around 200 gallons then you wash it in RUG for 10 minutes and it goes for another 200 gallons of WVO. etc etc.....


If you voted for Bush, you'll probably take the Scotts Tissue.


couldn't resist.:P

where
 

where can i get this sock filter at... i will use it before i put the oil
through the toilet paper....

it would be great to have the oil down to 5 microns before it hit the tp...