Re: Another dumb question hydralic oil

Posted by farmallhal on March 19, 2007 at 07:49:46 from (64.24.35.16):

In Reply to: Another dumb question hydralic oil posted by Gary in Mozarks on March 19, 2007 at 00:04:02:

Gary, In a prior hobby of cutting rocks into smaller slabs I used to strain the cutting saw oil frequently to remove the crud. Here's the process I used and the oil came out like clean as new. This won't do anything for the water and as Hugh noted below will just take time to settle out.
Find a couple of buckets or a small barrel. Drill lots of holes in the lower portion of the small bucket and build a rack so that it will set down inside a little and above the other bucket or small barrel. Get two brown paper grocery bags and put one inside the other and put them in the top bucket which has the drain holes drilled into it. Pour in your hydraulic fluid and let it drain through the paper bags and drip into the lower bucket or barrel. It will certainly filter out the trash and crud and the oil in the lower container will look like new. This is something you want to do in a corner somewhere where it won't get distrubed by anyone or anything because if the top filter bucket gets dumped you have a real mess to clean up. I left the one I made back in Washington when I moved back to the farm. What I actually used was a small barrel about 15-20 gallons for the bottom and cut an outline for a square 4 gallon plastic bucket I used on the top with the grocery bags. I cut the outline of the square bucket into a piece of plywood with a saber saw so that the small bucket would fit through the wood and all the drip holes were below the plywood which rested on top of the barrel. I think you get the idea but the double trash bags make an excellent filter and the bucket in which they are placed provide enough support so they don't rip out. When you are finished or the bags get clogged with chud just wad them up and dispose of them in a plastic bag along with the other burnable house garbage.
If you need more detail shoot me an email - will be gone this afternoon into town, hopes this helps, Hal.

Replies:

• Re: Reread more carefully, now I understand. Hugh MacKay 12:36:39 03/19/07 (1)
  • Re: Reread more carefully, now I understand. farmallhal 17:48:05 03/19/07 (0)
• Re: Another dumb question hydralic oil Hugh MacKay 08:39:25 03/19/07 (3)
  • Re: Another dumb question hydralic oil Gary in Mozarks 12:02:28 03/19/07 (2)
    • Re: Another dumb question hydralic oil Hugh MacKay 12:30:42 03/19/07 (1)
      • Re: Another dumb question hydralic oil Gary in Mozarks 13:38:12 03/19/07 (0)

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