Waste oil strainer or filter

[Rated ///M]

Morning!

I'm building a drain table with a grate top that I can throw used oil parts, motors, filters, etc. etc. on and let all the fluids drain out before I take them to scrap.

I have the table designed and set up, it will be a 3x5 table with grate top and a sloping surface that will go into a 50 gallon tank built into the bottom of the table.

I need to figure out a way to create some sort of filter or mesh screen that will catch any of the large chunks of sludge, metal, or foreign debris before they go into the tank. I have a few ideas, but I'm wondering if any of you have done anything like this in the past and may have suggestions.

Thanks!

 

[Bondo]

Ayuh,... My tool, like yer tryin' to build is a Big funnel stuck in a 55gal. drum, with a piece of metal window screen in the bottom of the funnel,.....

I give my waste oil to friends that burn it for heat,...
No complaints of debris in the oil,.,...

 

[Rated ///M]

I have a 50 gallon tank I'm building into the table. I'm not concerned about debris in the oil that I take to recycle. I'm trying to avoid collecting debris in my tank that will clog my outlet valve and require me to clean it out.

 

[PoorOwner]

Coffee filter?

 

[Rated ///M]

Need something more permanent then that. I'm thinking some stainless mesh of some sort. but I may need to build it into a frame.

 

[zkdiesel]

I have a trans drain bench that I use for my drain table
Just slanted toward back, back has trough with pipe in middle that drains down to buckets
Pipe has mesh sink strainer in it
Most of my debrie lays in the trough at back surprizingly


I'd suggest building your table like mine, only a slant, as it works great for working on oil sub assemblies. Oil cooler rebuilds, trans parts, t cases, and other stuff
The slight slant allows for a self cleaning workstation that parts will not fall through as you work on item...

For my oil filter draining I just make sure they wedge on the trough and will drain out. Also lean all my drip trays over table so they self clean

 

[NUTTSGT]

How about two layers of expanded metal with some aluminum window screen in the middle ?

 

[Donald Cook]

I use a screen filter for an auto drip coffee maker and a funnel, they are a metal screen, ,it works better in the garage than it did in the coffee maker, left fine coffee grinds in the cup, went back to paper.

 

[maxpower_hd]

Just a piece of screen material from the local hardware store should work. At work for the waste oil table where we dump and pump our oil we just have metal grating. We have a colander to use for stuff that has parts that could fall in.

 

[ratdoggy]

Filter from a junk kitchen stove hood?

 

[matt_i]

Check McMaster Carr (www.mcmaster.com). I'd search under "perforated metal" and then "insect screens" for some ideas, there are offerings in mild steel, 304 stainless and 316 stainless.

I'd also look at "standard strainers" which are "Y-" and "T-" which are potentially less money and could screw onto the output pipe, ahead of your valve. It will likely restrict the output flow though.

I used the 304ss perforated metal in my machining center coolant tank and parts washer to attempt to keep metal stuff out of the bottom. Works reasonably well. Its the entire surface of the parts washer but stiffened by flat bars welded on edge from underneath.

You could also potentially use a regular spin-on oil filter (I'd get a giant sized filter) somewhere between the catch point and the storage point since you aren't super-concerned about flow....unless you are going to attempt to dump the entire output of an engine/trans/axle in there...

 

[sberry]

This is a bit much but built it for a bud. Oil and coolant went in, could run it out from different levels and underneath is a 2 inch with bottom slant where vac truck can hook on.

 

[Harley-FXDWG]

This.....http://www.homedepot.com/p/27-in-x-8-ft-Steel-Lath-2-5-METAL-LATH/202093395

With metal screen underneath to catch the smaller particles.

 

[simpler=better]

Weld in slanted speed bumps along the sloped part. Bigger chunks will get hung up and stop before hitting the bottom.

 

[zkdiesel]

I use a screen filter for an auto drip coffee maker and a funnel, they are a metal screen, ,it works better in the garage than it did in the coffee maker, left fine coffee grinds in the cup, went back to paper.

seems overkill and slow, with 90 weight it would be brutal
I filter my table with a kitchen sink vegtable screen wedged in it gets big chunks out, and the jones boys from the monee truck shop don't mind the small particulates as they filter it as they pump out my tank,

my table
this is all on the clean side of shop, drain pains, oil bench, solvent tank don't torch, grind or weld near as that on other side of shop

center drain

off to drip bucket

 

[Rated ///M]

Sweet! Thanks for the pics!

 

[pcmeiners]

coarse Stainless Steel wool (will not support oxidization) as filter , below a perforated metal screen.....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stainless-S...991597?hash=item483f15152d:g:QxYAAOxyaTxTSzWI

 

[KaiserJeep]

Old denim jeans. Cut open the pants legs from and lay the open material across a screen...