[AT] Separating Water from Hydraulic Oil?

[Larry D Goss]

LOL!  That sounds exactly like my friend, Rolla.  According to his way of 
thinking, the entire world revolves around the field of chemistry.  He will 
do his best to convince someone that even very mechanical things are the 
direct result of the chemistry involved.  Yesterday he tried to convince me 
that he was doing digital (as opposed to analog) analysis back in the 30's 
before computers were invented.

He did a bunch of work not only in oil/water separation, but also in soil 
desalinization around oil wells.  I feel a little sorry for him in some 
respects because when he gets on the Internet, he can't think of anything he 
wants to know about except the latest work that's been done in 
chromatography and whether or not anyone has cited some of his findings from 
back in the 1940's.  I keep advising him that the technology has advanced 
considerably since he did that work and that there aren't likely to be any 
more citations, but he doesn't want to hear it.

He started his career unloading gold at Fort Knox.  One of his first 
assignments was to help in moving all the French gold off the box cars and 
into the vault before WWII.  He talks of the different ways the bullion 
sounds and looks from various countries because of the chemical composition 
of it.  He's quite a character.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Separating Water from Hydraulic Oil?


> Larry,
>
> I gave the name Lubemaster but I've found the parent company... Lubemaster
> is a division of Certified Laboratories.  This was on a hand-out pocket
> oiler.
>
> I was reminded of something from many years ago.  I was preparing to test
> some gas lines for leaks and went to the company chemist for something to
> use.  I told him I needed something to make bubbles and his reply... "What
> size bubbles?"
>
> George Willer
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Larry D Goss
>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:28 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Separating Water from Hydraulic Oil?
>>
>> I'll try to find out, George.  I have coffee rather regularly with a
>> retired
>> chemist who did a lot of oil/water separation research years ago.  He'll
>> appreciate having something to think about other than politics, 
>> education,
>> the younger generation...
>>
>> It won't happen overnight because I'm headed out of town for this weekend
>> and we're in the process of trying to "engineer" a wedding in the family
>> next weekend, but I'll eventually get the answer -- just not right away.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Separating Water from Hydraulic Oil?
>>
>>
>> > We had a demonstration by a guy from 'Lubemaster' at our tractor club
>> > meeting several tears ago.  He came equipped with a plastic jar, an egg
>> > beater, a jug of oil, and some water, along with some special 
>> > additives.
>> >
>> > His subject was water in transmission fluid.  Sometimes it's desirable
>> to
>> > have the water remain in suspension and other times it's desirable for
>> it
>> > to
>> > separate out and lay in the bottom of the case, if there's room.  He
>> could
>> > make it do either one by adding a few drops of additive.  Add a few
>> drops
>> > of
>> > one additive and beat the mixture up to create mayonnaise.  Add a few
>> > drops
>> > of another one and after mixing the water would fall out.  He could 
>> > make
>> > the
>> > mix go back and forth at will simply by adding more stuff.
>> >
>> > Wouldn't it be nice to know what he used?
>> >
>> > George Willer
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>> >> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mike Sloane
>> >> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:07 AM
>> >> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> >> Subject: Re: [AT] Separating Water from Hydraulic Oil?
>> >>
>> >> The reality is that modern hydraulic fluid is designed to absorb
>> >> moisture. So the quick answer is "you can't separate the water from 
>> >> the
>> >> oil".
>> >>
>> >> Mike
>> >>
>> >> william.neff.powell at comcast.net wrote:
>> >> > Does anyone know of a simple quick process to separate water from
>> >> > hydraulic oil?
>> >> >
>> >> > I KNOW the right way to do it would be to replace the oil....
>> >> >
>> >> > I know the water will decant out of the oil over a long period of
>> >> > time, I am just looking for something quicker.
>> >> >
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