peashooter
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I downsized from my previous WMO filter last year which can be seen HERE. I needed a bit more room in the garage and just didn't need the larger filter setup that had the 55 gallon drum.
I was given a Lincoln 3601 Pressurized oil drain pan (probably an exact copy of the Harbor Freight 20g Portable oil lift drain pan).
I modified this setup to be my waste oil collection tank and filtering station. It filters by closing a valve and attaching it to an air compressor. The tank comes with a built in regulator that pressurizes the vessel and pushes the wmo out the bottom clear hose (and now through 2 filters) and into your container or fuel tank.
One of the clear hoses comes up from near the bottom of the tank and now goes to the filter setup, it also serves to show how much fluid is in the tank.
Honestly I haven't filtered yet with it, but will soon. I'm pretty excited at how small and mobile it is, all the built in stuff that's nice to have on a filter station (bottom drain, pump{compressed air}, level sight, casters, funnel, hose, spigot. While I didn't have to pay for this tank system, I still would have been pretty happy that they only cost around $150.
Modifications made were:
- I took out the extension tube between the funnel and the tank so now the funnel attaches directly to the valve (This doesn't need to be done, but I chose to).
- I added a "sediment drain" to the bottom of the tank. It already had a threaded hole there with a plug so I just added a valve and drain hose (the blue one) to be able to drain out the settled garbage before filtering the rest of the oil.
-added a couple of the napa/wix oil filter bases, Baldwin fuel filter/water separator on the first base, and BF7587 fuel filter on the second base.
-added 2 gauges to hopefully be able to tell when filters need changing (1 before the first filter, 1 after it)
-added a pizza pan to the top to cover funnel when its just sitting around.
I was given a Lincoln 3601 Pressurized oil drain pan (probably an exact copy of the Harbor Freight 20g Portable oil lift drain pan).
I modified this setup to be my waste oil collection tank and filtering station. It filters by closing a valve and attaching it to an air compressor. The tank comes with a built in regulator that pressurizes the vessel and pushes the wmo out the bottom clear hose (and now through 2 filters) and into your container or fuel tank.
One of the clear hoses comes up from near the bottom of the tank and now goes to the filter setup, it also serves to show how much fluid is in the tank.
Honestly I haven't filtered yet with it, but will soon. I'm pretty excited at how small and mobile it is, all the built in stuff that's nice to have on a filter station (bottom drain, pump{compressed air}, level sight, casters, funnel, hose, spigot. While I didn't have to pay for this tank system, I still would have been pretty happy that they only cost around $150.
Modifications made were:
- I took out the extension tube between the funnel and the tank so now the funnel attaches directly to the valve (This doesn't need to be done, but I chose to).
- I added a "sediment drain" to the bottom of the tank. It already had a threaded hole there with a plug so I just added a valve and drain hose (the blue one) to be able to drain out the settled garbage before filtering the rest of the oil.
-added a couple of the napa/wix oil filter bases, Baldwin fuel filter/water separator on the first base, and BF7587 fuel filter on the second base.
-added 2 gauges to hopefully be able to tell when filters need changing (1 before the first filter, 1 after it)
-added a pizza pan to the top to cover funnel when its just sitting around.
