A wet afternoon resulted in some quality time together -----------with my stoves and that lead to a simple filtering device. Take one Lidl screen wash container or similar and a fuel filter (in line type), + a bit of fuel pipe --- put a short bit of the pipe over the inlet side of the filter - - drill an appropriate size hole through the centre of the little cap on the pouring spout & force the filter into the cap (needs to be tight), then a bit more pipe on the other side of the filter - - and you filter as you fill Here you can see an O ring between the base of the cap & the can as it tended to leak a bit past the threads This may seem obvious, but don't forget to unscrew the main cap a little to allow air in as you pour.
All we need now is a water seperator! Something to filter out the crap and addatives in petrol and have a cheap and ready source of stove fuel. That one may be harder!! Good job JC May try one on a shypon hose set up.
JC, Are you filtering fuel there in the 1st photo, or the product of a night of heavy boozing ? The colour is ... how should I say this .... it looks like piss !!! My new found paraffin fuel is water clear; expensive at euro 9, 80 for 5 litres .. but cheaper than the euro 42,90 for 20 litres, I paid last winter! I only filter the paraffin, when rinsing out a stove. For that I use one of the wifes nylon tights stuffed into the funnel. The amount of sh%te it collects never ceases to surprise :o :o All the best Spudz
I sallied forth into the emporium of messrs. Bee and Queue and there I found my usual supply of finest "White Spirit" priced at just over three Gns. for four "litres", well enough satisfied I added this to the shopping trolley. Then, on a whim, set out to explore the Gardening dept. where there was natry a heavy roller to be seen but, by way of compensation - Paraffin in a four litre container and branded "PARASENE" - "Praise Be" I thought to myself, and then I noticed the price - It wanted but a single penny of FIVE WHOLE POUNDS - for a miserable four litres.... or Seven and a half Euros for four litres My stoves, Lanterns, Blow Lamps and the Weed Wand will continue to drink white spirit.
That's a neat setup Jules, I am a great believer in filtering fuel. Courtesy of the Heath Robinson Design Studio here's what I knocked up. Three parts, two 2L coke bottles with the bottoms cut off, and a coffee filter paper which goes in the bottle without the cap on - ( the one in shot is a paper circle only, as the cupboard is bare till we go to Sainsburys ! ) The 3 small holes drilled in the cap are designed to control the flow from the upper bottle to match the rate which the filter can handle, and I have found stuff lodged here which was greater in size than the 3/16 holes ! Put a filter paper in, and then insert the 'capped bottle' into the other and mount in a piece of soil pipe ( unused ! ), and if your holes control the flow correctly you can pour in nearly 2 litres for filtering at once - voila !
That does the job nicely Keith, I only used the in line filter thing so's I could filter 'n' fill at the same time. The fuel runs through at a reasonable rate - - & the element is finer by a long way than a 96 jet.
hi folks: i was reading with interest the thread on filtering fuel, i came across this unique, inexpensive and high-quality looking transfer pump... if you put an inline auto gasline filter on the hose enroute to your "clean fuel" jug you'd probably have one heck of a filtering/fuel transfer system put the input hose in the dirty fuel jug, pump to transfer and filter fuel to the "clean" jug regards tim if this is typical swede quality you probably can't go wrong with this item!! I thought it was pretty cool..... http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Swedish-Mi...462QQihZ006QQcategoryZ135QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem regards tim
.... ho ..... have heard , not tested , so its a suck it & see situation , that certain folks , wishing to avoid paying duty on diesel , buy agricultural red diesel (cheap ) & filter it through fullers earth (try cat litter) , reputedly removing the pigment dye . no claims this works ... if anybody gives it a try ... please report back .. either positive or negative .. but why would you want to remove the colour from the paraffin ?? nick
