Hello,
it is some time since I have posted on the forum and so long in fact that the forum looked completely different to how it does now, I am surprised that it even remembered my username.
right to my point, about a year ago I decided to give up on cleaning WVO and running my bosch pumped citroen xantia as new oil at £1 a litre was becoming more attractive that cleaning it, my oil collections were also reducing dramatically and everybody around here wanted as much money for old oil as the cost of new oil if purchased in bulk.
I also found out that I had cataracts in both eyes and consequently I went very blind over a period of about 12 months before I could have the operations to fix my eyes.
I announced that I was giving up filtering WVO passed the last remaining oil collection to one of you in the local area and placed an add on the old website saying that I was thinking of giving up and that I was looking for £50 for the old filtering system, this struck up a dialog with someone on the forum who was interested but my Blindness was getting significantly worse week by week and we lost touch simply because I couldn't see the computer or even a phone any more. I even had to stop driving for a while. I have now had the operations to replace my lenses and I see again.
The system comprises of 2 x 205 litre insulated drums one is a relatively new clip top and the second drum has a custom made wooden lid, both with 3kw elements five filters, which will probably need new filter cartridges by now 22mm copper piping and a Tam 105 pump and all the necessary 22mm valves.
The whole lot sits on two 7ft pallets which have been reduced in width by using the slats to fill in the gaps, which allows the drums to be drained from time to time.
I did say I was thinking of giving up at the time and the person that contacted me seemed a bit eager, but if you would like to contact me again if your still interested I am sure now that I have my eyesight back again we can sort something out.
I also have 100 litres of solids available if anyone wants them for making Bio. failing that I just hope that local tip will take it.
Ideally I would appreciate a bit of time to clean out the filter housings and clean up the system a bit before letting it go approximately 1 week, there is still about 100 litres of good filtered oil in drum 2 waiting to be drained off that will be going with the system. I shall also need to drain the dregs from the bottom of the drums to.
After that stage two will be to sell off my 5.5kw elecy start Kapor generator which has only seen 25 hours use in total and has a flexible stainless steel exhaust, is enclosed in a foam box with intake and extractor fans around it and it is also sitting on a floating platform to reduce diesel thud.
I'm looking for £500 though as I have my eye on a much smaller machine.
The kipor genny will need at least four people to lift it onto a trailer or into a van, there are big handles at either end of the genny enclosure. a block an tackle might pull it up a tipping trailer if secured to a tow bar. the genny is very heavy. it also has to be put back on its wheels as they were removed to install it onto a floating platform. The platform is also on castors so that it can be moved to change the air filter.
I got it home on one of the small Halfords trailers with a sheet of plywood in the bottom and I used a couple of car transporter straps to hold it down. I am incapable of lifting it anymore owning to a hernia I got lifting snooker tables at the corners to level them with beer mats in my job.
An Extra special thanks to everyone that has helped me along the way with filtering oil over the past few years, the time spent on filtering oil is now being wasted on tinkering with a 2cv instead.
I am based in Kettering Northants just off Junction 9 of the A14.
