The best use of a fram air filter...

[Adrock]

Starting out my WVO setup, here is step 1 in processing, restaurant dumps hot oil into a barrel through this filter setup...

Start with 2 barrels:


The lid starts like this:



Get your trusty fram air filter, drill soe holes, cut some bigger holes and bolt up to a 14 inch pizza pan:



Pour the oil in here:

[mitch]

nice creativity! let me know how your pump / filter job works out

Mitch

[Adrock]

Well, I just got back from earls... It didn't filter fast enough, I'm not quite sure if the oil wasn't hot enough or it got backed up with crud right way. I'll look at the filter once its had a chance to drain tomorrow.

The build is by no means a bust, next step is to find a restaurant that drains into plastic jugs instead, and just take those home. Then I need to find an even shittier filter than fram... any suggestions? I don't want to filter as fine for my first stage I guess.

It will all get figured out, man that stuff smells tasty though I cant wait to burn it.

[BCDelica]

Hey Adam, that filter setup looks like a great system. If Earl's oil is hot it should work; just two recommendations - the animal fat/grease just doesn't go through filter like canola, hot or cold. It's always the first crude off the drain and will settle out in a container quickly. The first liquid off a bottom drain of the fryer is usually this grease, collect a little in a glass cold and see if it turns thick, whitish when it cools. Pick up some cheese cloth by the bolt (better quality) and rig up a sheet of it on top of a funnel or bucket to sit where the window screen is. Three reasons; the crunchy bits can be quite small, so this will keep more away from the fram, and it will be removable to make for easy cleaning of the crude the will be there in larger amounts. Since I'm being so picky here - that's the only downside a can see to your filter rig, all the chip bits, shrimp, etc will need to be scooped off the window screening, have say a bucket there with finer screen, with big slots in the base to let the oil through, can just be lift off and dumped. Also allows more oil to be poured in at once. The bag filters for paint and oil work cold but are very slow, like the fram would be cold too a guess.

If Earl changes oil daily it should as good as it gets, and they want to get rid of that oil they'd let you try again; ya hope. Cool huh, there garage will be your fuel.

Good luck and keep us posted! Gotta run to the airport - see ya! 8) 8) 8)

Regards,
Kevin

[Adrock]

my friend who works at earls was confused. They drain fryers every night, but rotate one fryer to the right each night, so they only dump one per night, and it has been used for 3 days.

It poured through the filter very well until about half way through, but they were pouring out of what was essentially a large pot so it could have let a bunch of t he grease through and clogged the filter. It basically stopped filtering halffway through but didn't seem to slow at all, it just stopped.

[rs_filter]

awesome creativity... but i guess there's something disadvantage of that...





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[patty]

where did adrock go?

[Todd64]

Anyway of adding negative pressure t the drum? Like a valve on the lid with pump to create a small negative pressure.