Pinz25086
Active member
- 274
- 31
- 28
- Location
- Orlando Fl.
Does anyone know how fine the screen on the fuel strainer is on a deuce? I am running used motor oil and want to know what size stuff it is catching.
-
Steel Soldiers now has a few new forums, read more about it at: New Munitions Forums!
Fuel strainer
- Thread starter Pinz25086
- Start date
Westech
CPL
- 6,104
- 206
- 63
- Location
- cow farts, Wisconsin
ha! just about fine enough to catch a golf ball. Really all its going to do is keep nuts and bolts out. Its not made to filter any thing.
bryan70546
New member
- 410
- 1
- 0
- Location
- Lake Charles La
Just pull it out and take a look but I dont think it thats fine .
ctmustang
Member
- 714
- 1
- 18
- Location
- Thomasville-N.C.
Yep it really will not filter anything smaller than a pepsi can.LOL
Jake0147
Member
- 782
- 18
- 18
- Location
- Panton, VT
It's a rock catcher, not a contaminated fuel fixer. It should not be considered any part of your filtration system.
If you want scientific, I'll take my strainer and throw it as far as I can, and for all future measurement we can assign that distance to be fifty yards.
But by my best estimation there's about 40 holes to an inch, the wire gauge is slightly smaller than the space between the wires, but closer to one wire than to two wires worth of space.... And of course it's a square mesh shaped into a non-square cone shape. A little loose division puts it somewhere in the 350 to 400 micron range. Good enough to keep the squirrels out, but not the chipmunks.
Carl_in_NH
Member
- 834
- 7
- 18
- Location
- Wilton NH
That's the problem - the chipmunks keep getting caught in the fuel line; the squirrels don't make it past the pickup on the in-tank pump.
- 1,998
- 31
- 48
If you wanted to make a screen to keep water out I believe that 100 mesh? is the size. Used to use the screen to seperate water from jerry cans when filling an old surplus jeep.