When filtering veggie oil we like to use gravity and time to settle out the contaminants. We also use fine paper filters as a final pass which clean the fuel down to 2-micron. In order to reduce the amount of paper filters required used jeans work as a in-between step. I simply tie the denim leg ends off and pour oil through the top of the pants. A piece of rebar suspends the jeans over a 55 gallon drum. This technique is surprisingly effective in how quickly we can filter 100's of gallons of fuel.
Where do we get jeans? Why the thrift store of course. They sell jeans for about $2 each, but it gets better. The thrift store sorts out the jeans that they feel are too damaged to sell and puts them in giant trash bags labelled "for quilting". Each bags contains about a dozen pairs of jeans and costs only $2.
2 comments:
Why not simply pump the oil through a dual set of remote oil filters into a clean oil holding tank? It would be a heck of a lot more pure than filtering it through just jeans and paper. IE: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dual-Oil-Filter-Remote-Mount-W-Filters-Relocate-Increase-Oil-Capacity-/280832098856?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4162e5c228&vxp=mtr
Carlos,
Essentially that is what I use. I have a fancy gear pump and Racor 1000 oil filter that I use for my final filter. I avoid it for first pass just to save on the 2-micron racor replacements. It's never let me down.
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