11-09-2013, 03:19 PM
Right, I've thought of a simple way of doing this, thought I'd see what people thought. It's based on some ideas I've picked up on the internet.
Get a 200 litre water butt, mount it on a couple of breezeblocks. Fit a tap in the underside, a big one with good size piping. Fit a tap on the side maybe 1/5th of the way up the side, and attach a length of hose to the tap on the inside of the barrel and jubilee clip this to the handle of an old plastic milk bottle full of air, aiming for the hose to sit just below the surface of the liquid using the milk bottle as a float.
Pour the WVO in the top through a coarse filter, totally fill the barrel once I have enough oil and leave it alone for a month so the water and sludge can drop below the level of the tap on the side. Then, after a month, drain out the WVO through the side tap. The milk bottle acting as a float for the hosepipe should mean the oil coming out is always from the top, and as I drain it out I can check the clarity of it as it takes from further down the barrel. Drain it into jerry cans through maybe a 5 micron filter, then pour in the car, and open the tap on the underside to drain the sludge into one of the containers the WVO came in.
What do we reckon?
Get a 200 litre water butt, mount it on a couple of breezeblocks. Fit a tap in the underside, a big one with good size piping. Fit a tap on the side maybe 1/5th of the way up the side, and attach a length of hose to the tap on the inside of the barrel and jubilee clip this to the handle of an old plastic milk bottle full of air, aiming for the hose to sit just below the surface of the liquid using the milk bottle as a float.
Pour the WVO in the top through a coarse filter, totally fill the barrel once I have enough oil and leave it alone for a month so the water and sludge can drop below the level of the tap on the side. Then, after a month, drain out the WVO through the side tap. The milk bottle acting as a float for the hosepipe should mean the oil coming out is always from the top, and as I drain it out I can check the clarity of it as it takes from further down the barrel. Drain it into jerry cans through maybe a 5 micron filter, then pour in the car, and open the tap on the underside to drain the sludge into one of the containers the WVO came in.
What do we reckon?
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