rykk
spending too much on rocks
Member since September 2011
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Post by rykk on Apr 7, 2014 17:38:51 GMT -5
Phil - I'll take your advice on the hot water/Dawn. I don't have a paint mixer but will try to stir it up as much as I can with a stick. I've, so far, only gotten 5 of the 10 gallons back and the remnant is pretty darn thick. I'm using a sheet to filter. It does an *ok* job but some of the finer dust still gets through and the oil has a red orange hue from the super fine dust - dang Lavic, Noreena, and Polychrome! I'm thinking I'll filter the filtered oil a second time with paper once I get as much as I can with the sheet. Florida has, just in the last few days, started to become the absolute hell on earth 10 months of the year that the tourism TV ads and Disney don't want you to know about and I reckon the oil will filter a lot quicker now. Getting close to 100F in the garage already at 11AM and rising. Makes it hard to do any cabbing, to say the least! C-ya, Ric
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Fossilman
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 10, 2014 9:32:44 GMT -5
I guess I use the slow process with the clean gunny sack,than the brown paper bag(filtering)....Takes a couple days,but well worth the effort and time...
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Post by phil on Apr 10, 2014 12:51:46 GMT -5
Thanks, Lee - I froze the gallon jug. Half oil, half water. I reckon I'm just gonna have to filter it the slow way. Phil - As to the temperature, I was just thinking the same thing. Though it's only in the high 50's, high 60's here, it IS colder than the usual 100 degrees in the garage. That could well be why the snot won't settle out. Gotta figure out some way to warm up the 2 buckets I have over a number of days, stir them up, and see if it settles out better. Might just have to wait a while until it gets the usual brutal hot here, again. Sure wish I lived up where y'all are... at least for Spring-Summer-Fall! :-) C-ya, Rick Well you could always dump the oil mix in a much larger tub, then add about 10 gallons of piping, steaming hot water and stir it up .... The oil should rise, the snot would sink below with the water, you could then siphon off the oil from the top, probably getting about 90% and then put the rest on a paper bag filter system for the long haul. But seems like a lot of work to me. I have two sets of oil, one in the saw, one in the filters till I need it, and swap them out as need be. Less work, LOTS less labor, wastes very little oil and the snot is almost a brick by the time I need the oil. Also, no water mess to deal with. have fun either way! Phil
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