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Jeff (Jeff)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 9:54 pm: | |
http://www.dieselproducts.com/spinner/spinner.html
Does anyone have any dealing with a Spin Oil Filter like the one I have on this link? I have one on my bus and the shop manual does not have anything listed. Thanks! Please E Mail me.
BubbaJePH@yahoo.com |
John MC9
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 10:12 pm: | |
Wow!
Sounds like that's right up there with fuel line magnets and gas tank energy pills. |
Mike (Busone)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 2:22 am: | |
It sounds a lot like the Dyson vacume cleaner. The way it spins the dirt out. Of course who knows if it works. |
Marc Bourget
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 2:35 am: | |
The idea is good but the minimum diameter for useful performance is 18". The rpm necessary for something of 4" diameter to work is so high as to be unobtainable.
They sold a properly designed unit at a DRMO auction one time. Fairly bulky. Didn't appreciate what it was until I spoke with a Chemical Engineer for an oil company.
The Bristol Centarus engine in the Hawker Sea Fury had two of these type about 4" diameter but they spun 7(x) engine rpm, up above 10,000, IIRC. |
Ed Jewett (Kristinsgrandpa)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 12:17 pm: | |
When in the Navy (64-66) we had centrifugal oil cleaners in the engine room for the main engine oil supply, very high speed, about 10,000 rpm or more, it had a bunch of cone shaped discs, about 8" in dia., inside. The dirt collected on the discs and had to be taken apart and cleaned. I think it was twice a day.
I don't remember the specifics (I've slept a couple of times since then) except that there was a significant amount of dirt at each cleaning and that it took the thing several minutes to get back up to speed after cleaned.
Ed |
Laryn Christley
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 11:55 pm: | |
UPS uses centrifugal oil cleaners on their road tractors and they work. They are not excessively large. They have a removeable paper liner that catches the bad stuff that the spin-on doesn't. I would think you would have to put lots of miles on your engine to make it worthwile. Normal preventive maintance is very adequate for the vast majority.
Laryn
UPS mechanic |
Marc Bourget
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 19, 2006 - 9:49 am: | |
Laryn,
I agree that any centrifugal cleaner will help, but this is usually limited to "big" things that any filter will separate. The benefit usually attained by "proper" centrifugal cleaners is the stuff so small that it passes through most filters and continues to commit mischief.
It's the "small thingies" that require the high RPM.
Don't take this as criticism, my comment is more educational - the type of cleaner I reference is almost "perfect world" stuff. |