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locry · #15 07-18-2005, 07:06 AM

heehee UPDATE

with regards to that catch can thingy...
what i used eventually as a catch can is a "Fluidized Bed Filter" used in marine aquariums...
its basically a cylinder with an inlet and an outlet. the inlet tube runs the entire length of the main cylinder(a tube within a tube) and ends near the bottom of the main cylinder, at the bottom is a sponge filter, up top there is also a sponge filter before the outlet.

i find that this setup more effectively catches atomized oil as compared to just a catch can.

i tested this setup by placing white tissue paper at the outlet, it took a while before the tissue greyed up due to the atomized oil... i compared this to the catch can setup where the tissue almost immediately blackened with oil.

i'm thinking that the more the sponge gets soaked with oil the more effective it will be trapping oil... i'm still monitoring the setup, i'm watching out for the sponge blocking the gasses entirely...