[AT] Separating Water from Hydraulic Oil?

Larry D Goss rlgoss at evansville.net
Mon Apr 23 19:32:13 PDT 2007


I asked Rolla about oil/water separation methods today, and he forgot to 
work on the problem over the weekend.  His only excuse was that he had 
"slept since then."

I think I've used that same excuse from time to time.  :-)

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 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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