Manila Rope Filter For WMO

Filtering WMO via manila rope was briefly mentioned in another SS post. Because it sounded like a fascinating concept I decided to give it a try. So far my results have been zero.

I placed a container of used oil on my work bench and another container on the floor. I placed one end of a new 7/8" diameter manila rope in the top container and let the rope dangle into the container on the floor. I waited for 24 hours --- nothing happened.

I then decided to thoroughly soak the rope in used oil to give it a little prime. After 24 hours tho only oil that had dripped from the rope and into the floor container was excess oil from it being submerged/soaked in oil.

I've Googled around in an attempt to find information on this process. No luck. Anybody got any bright ideas?

It might work but only if the oil container is nearly full of oil and the manila "wick" doesn't have to draw the oil up very far.

Yeah, one of those old timers posted doing something like that to filter oil.

(Nothing against old timers as I am over the half-century mark myself.)

I had thought about trying it out so you did save me some time.


steve

Here, I Googled this one up:
http://www.endtimesreport.com/cleaning_engine_oil.html

- Allen

Thanks for the link jodka.

After waiting another night for the rope drip to speed up I'm giving up.

This system may be OK for cleaning up a few quarts of oil a year but not for the volume needed to burn waste oil in a deuce. It's just simply too slow.

Back to the drawing board.

Slow? No kidding. Weeks to clean up a few quarts of oil.

Better off buying a large tank and put it up high and let it drain thru filters into holding tanks for use.

steve