Hi, all I use a piece of window screening over a piece of panty hose, both attached to the wand of a wet-dry vac with an elastic band. I keep the wand near the top of the oil (most of the heavy particles are at the bottom) and when the screen fills up, simply shift to a clean section of both filters. I tried also putting a fat filter at the opening to the cannister, but my small household vac didn't have the oomph to pull it through. And in fact I've not found that extra degree of filtering to be necessary ... the fat is clean enough to burn straight. A stronger vac would be able to pull the fat through, I expect, for more stringent requirements.
My vac is not the through-kind, so I drilled holes in the wheel wells. When the suction is on, it is enough to prevent the fat from draining, and when I turn the vac off, the fat drains into a clean cannister. With this arrangement, I don't have to lift the heavy buckets of fat. When and if I need the vac for dry purposes, the holes will be easy enough to seal up. Regards, Lori At 12:19 AM 2001-01-04 +0000, Andrew Graham wrote: >Has anyone out there got any good ideas on an effective method for >filtering used cooking fat. I run my car on straight heated fat but I >regularly clog up my fuel filter. I currently get my fat from fast >food outlets, then sieve it, and filter it twice through cloth. This >is a slow messy process but still leaves too many solids in the fuel. >It is not a pleasant job changing the filter, not cheap and the used >filters are an environmental hazard in themselves. >Thanks, Andrew. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
