I was wondering what type of filter system everyone is using for collection? I am tring to put together something like this:

http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com/pro...el_filters.php

only about 6 or 700 bucks cheaper... I was thinking of a holley blue pump with a fs20000 fleetgaurd filter, but I wasn't too sure if the filter would work... .Anyway, thanks for your help...jake

 

I was thinkin, I dunno how much the holley blue costs, but maybe this pump would work,

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=4097

plus maybe depending if you don't have alot to filter, you could just use a regular clear fuel filter for 10 microns or somethin, and possibly filter it straight into the tank.

 

Awesome thanks very much for the heads up on the Harbor Freight pump.. I will let you know what it looks like when I have it done....Jake

 

that fill-rite pump is recommended by a lot of folks, its good stuff. Just make sure to have adequate filtering in front of it or particles will make imprints in the rotor and diminish its self-priming abilities. Also I cant seem to find replacement parts for it!
The little hand-held 40$ pumps have rubber vanes in the pump head that arent rated for fuels, so who knows how long they last?
Careful with getting WVO like that.. usually its recommended to de-water it first. Maybe have a separate tank in the bed with coolant heat so it can get nice and toasty and hopefully lose some water?

 

Yeah, I am a little worried about that, but I have seen the filter on golden fuels systems say that it removes some water... I was thinking about using this to put the oil into 5 gallon jugs and then bringing that home and letting it settle for a week or so and then filtering it again into the truck... Just a thought... What do you think? How do you do it Kawi600? Thanks... Jake

 

Another quick easy way to get oil from a container, drum, dumpster or whatever is to use a good solid steel tank like a compressor tank or even a 100 lb (about 24 gallons) propane tank. Add a section of hose with a valve on it long enough to reach from the tank that is in the bed of your truck to the container your gonna draw from. Use a hose that won't collapse under vacume, and have a screen on th sucker end of the hose so you don't pull in any dead rats.

Draw a vacume on the tank (do this before you even leave the house to go collect the oil), then drop the hose into the container of oil, open the valve and let the oil get sucked in. Takes about 3-5 minutes to fill the the tank in the bed of your truck.

When you get back home, just drain the oil into smaller containers (so you will need a second port in the tank for venting). You could even get fancy and use the vacume pump from your truck to draw a vacume as you drive.

How much vacume depends on the strength of your tank and some experimentation would be a good idea (like how much vaume to fill the tank).

Don't do this with a 55 gallon drum, as they can't take much vacume at all.

Most electric pumps have trouble with wvo especially when the oil is cold. They over heat and burn up. If you really want to use a pump, consider a 2 stroke portable water/trash pump.

Another really nice pump for puumping wvo is an oil pump from a car. Moves allot of volume in a hurry, and darn near indestructable. Just need a good strong motor to run it. It don't care about veg oil or even little chunks of french fries. KD

 

Good thinking on the Oil Pump from a car... I guess you could just take an electric drill with you to the collection point and put a rod on the pump, huh? Is there any issues with the oil being cumbustable at this stage? What I mean is should I be concearned with the sparks from the drill lighting me up? I am not too keen on the flash point and all of the oil, just a thought... Jake

 

I just take the cubes of oil or the stuff sucked from a barrel and store it in a 55gal drum for awhile so it settles. Then I cook it in the water heater of my appleseed reactor for a couple hours and filter it so its ready for use.
I think the big thing is to use good quality oil. Save your cleanest oil with best titration for straight use and the other stuff as bio. second, dont run the stuff on a cold motor or one thats going to be under a light load. Id save this stuff for the highway or heavy towing since you want the combustion and coolant temps to be really hot. sounds like the coking problems and polymerization reported are from these kinds of things.