[AT] @$#@$#% Cub - red engine oil

[charliehill]

Well time is not really an issue for me.  Some of this oil has been around 
for many many years.  I just want to dispose of it and get some value from 
it in the process.
What your system is actually doing is wicking the oil through the rope.  I 
like it.  I'm thinking maybe many strands of loosely twisted cotton rope run 
throught some pvc pipe to keep the system more or less closed.

Now I just have to get a round-tuit and get er done.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] @$#@$#% Cub - red engine oil


> charliehill wrote:
>> The time I tried to burn used oil before I just dumped it about 15 or 20% 
>> in
>> with my #2 oil in the furnace tank.  I let it sit and figured that 
>> between
>> the settling, dilution and the wool sock filter on the fuel line it would 
>> be
>> ok but it wasn't.   A few days or weeks later I started having furnace
>> problems.  I pulled the pump off of the furnace and it was full of very 
>> fine
>> black grit that had gotten through the sock filter and the strainer on 
>> the
>> pump.  I spent the rest of that winter and most of the next trying to 
>> keep
>> that furnace running until I finally replaced the pump and switched the 
>> fuel
>> lines.  Problem solved.
>>
>> Since then I've changed fuel tanks and put a "goldenrod" brand filter 
>> like
>> you put on a farm fuel transfer pump ahead of the wool sock filter.  If I
>> try to burn any more of that stuff I want to be sure I have it cleaned 
>> up.
>> I don't want to contaminate this system now that I have it clean.
>>
>> Charlie
>
> That is the nice thing with the rope system. Solids cannot migrate
> through it. Only the liquids can. The batch I did started out as a mix
> of #2, crankcase oil from a few diesels and cars and some Hytran and
> gear oil. All of it had grit and soot in it.
>
> After the rope the oil actually looked almost good enough to put in the
> car!
>
> The second system got built because I wanted to do the process faster.
>
> -- 
> Steve W.
>
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