time for a change.

[Julian]

I should have piped up earlier, but it's only just sprung to mind ... try looking at screen printing mesh.

I think that's nylon and it's incredibly fine.  Not sure on price though.

[GedsJeep]

cheers, but ive found my answer.

mikes bags really are brilliant.

i brought 60L home friday.

i always leave it in the garden for a few days so that it is at ambient temp (all my customers keep the oil indoors for me)

i pumped it into a bag yesterday and as fast as i was filling the bag, it was running through.

60L filtered in 1 min 30 secs.

im chuffed with that

[dgs]

Thank goodness you've posted Geds and Julian, I was beginning to think everyone had gone to sleep on here!

[Julian]

Yes, been a bit quiet.

For my part I've done very little of note in the bio field recently, well, in any field really.

My one recent spectacular achievement was to excel in my chosen area of excellence by making a stupendously good emulsion with 80 ltrs of bio, 15 odd ltrs of glycerin and 5ltrs of water!

[Jamesrl]

Yes, been a bit quiet.

For my part I've done very little of note.

Ye' so your mrs says, very very little.

[Julian]

Sounds like she talks more to you than me ... you have my commiserations.

[Jamesrl]

Sounds like she talks more to you than me ... you have my commiserations.

I have spies everywhere y'know.

[dgs]

Yes, been a bit quiet.

For my part I've done very little of note in the bio field recently, well, in any field really.

My one recent spectacular achievement was to excel in my chosen area of excellence by making a stupendously good emulsion with 80 ltrs of bio, 15 odd ltrs of glycerin and 5ltrs of water!

Now that does suprise me. If the master can make emulsions what chance have we got.

[Jamesrl]

Yes, been a bit quiet.

For my part I've done very little of note in the bio field recently, well, in any field really.

My one recent spectacular achievement was to excel in my chosen area of excellence by making a stupendously good emulsion with 80 ltrs of bio, 15 odd ltrs of glycerin and 5ltrs of water!

Now that does suprise me. If the master can make emulsions what chance have we got.

He IS the Master of Emulsions,  nothing else.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I've never succeeded in making an emulsion.

[oakwoodtv]

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I've never succeeded in making an emulsion.
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Come on Jim think about it if you dont add water to your bio you will never make an emulsion
as the most experienced settler on here I think you may be having a brain fart.   

[Julian]

Yes, been a bit quiet.

For my part I've done very little of note in the bio field recently, well, in any field really.

My one recent spectacular achievement was to excel in my chosen area of excellence by making a stupendously good emulsion with 80 ltrs of bio, 15 odd ltrs of glycerin and 5ltrs of water!

Now that does suprise me. If the master can make emulsions what chance have we got.

It's actually the second I've managed to make, with glycerin in 170+ batches and of the two, the first I've managed to break.

Made some strange stuff in the process ... a sort of toffee Angle Delight mix and a weird, lumpy soya meat substitute type stuff.

Currently got it back to a fair imitation of a green tinted bio (something to do with a copper processor and lots of acid I think!), with copious amounts of soapy stuff taking ages to settle.

[Julian]

Yes, been a bit quiet.

For my part I've done very little of note in the bio field recently, well, in any field really.

My one recent spectacular achievement was to excel in my chosen area of excellence by making a stupendously good emulsion with 80 ltrs of bio, 15 odd ltrs of glycerin and 5ltrs of water!

Now that does suprise me. If the master can make emulsions what chance have we got.

He IS the Master of Emulsions,  nothing else.

I agree with Jim.

[Jamesrl]

I agree with Jim.

Bloody 'ell, that's a first.

Are you veeling alright? ? ?

Btw julie I have  a couple of 0.5 nozzles for 3mm filament foc if your interested. Pm your address and I'll post'm to you.

[GedsJeep]

so.........

seeing as i now work 2 miles from home and have an electric bike....

im not using anywhere near the oil i used to.

so i`m looking to streamline again.

the other house had a main sewer in the garden, so i could wash the filter bags in misfuel, drop into hot water then hang up to dry. the water was dosed with caustic and dumped.

no such luxury in this house.

now i havent collected or filtered for a while as i lost mum in november and nursed her to the end. one of my mates collected for me so i kept the collection.

i looked at the filters and they were getting caked, and with nowhere to dispose or clean i came to a bit of a decision.



i buggered off all the filters.




i collect in 60`s as usual then pump into 2 x 210`s through a net curtain.

thats it, nothing else.

Remember my main fuel filter on the car is empty, and i run 2 big red inline filters instead.

so, ive run over a month now, with no discernible difference in the car.

all that bloody money on filter bags over the last 11 years and all that research.

a bloody net curtain.

 

[Keef]

Same here ... my circumstances changed about 7 years ago so to keep things simple I started to just drop oil through a bedsheet and then straight into the car. I have been doing it like this ever since and it works fine for me, just a bit slow when the weather gets really cold.