stefan
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Post by stefan on Sept 11, 2021 16:41:44 GMT -5
No pictures as it was a mess, but I changed the oil in the HP14 this afternoon. Yuck yuck and yuck. What a gross messy job. I have to figure out a better way than 2 square pails and a paper bag. I have aprox. 55 gals of mineral oil available to me but I hate to waste anything so I'm filtering the used to to be reused.
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Post by Rockindad on Sept 11, 2021 17:20:43 GMT -5
About how many hours of cutting did you have into it before having to clean it out?
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Post by manofglass on Sept 11, 2021 18:00:38 GMT -5
I hate that job to my saw needs cleaning before the end of the month it takes 5 gallon but I am not going to save the oil this time
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Post by holajonathan on Sept 11, 2021 19:16:39 GMT -5
No pictures as it was a mess, but I changed the oil in the HP14 this afternoon. Yuck yuck and yuck. What a gross messy job. I have to figure out a better way than 2 square pails and a paper bag. I have aprox. 55 gals of mineral oil available to me but I hate to waste anything so I'm filtering the used to to be reused. It is a nasty job. I just changed last night after only 8 days... 12+ hours a day of cutting. If I say 100 hours of cutting for an oil change, that sounds reasonable. But 8 days? I was just getting over the trauma from the last clean out, and had to do it again. This time I didn't get it get quite as thick as before, and after removing the drain cap, I was able to tilt the saw and drain a lot of it out that way. |
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Post by Peruano on Sept 11, 2021 19:45:12 GMT -5
I was tempted to say I could drain and muck out my hp14" in an hour but thERE is undoubtedly another hr of clean up. Paper bags seem to be less permeable and I sometimes cheat and only use one per pail but lift carefully when it time to dispose. I tried thrift store pillow cases but they drained no faster. If you have the space buckets can filter for 2 weeks but 75 % of the oil that will be recaptured is probably sooner than that.
I use every tool known to squeegee it out but fiber shims from cabinetry or plastic spatulas from tile installation work best to push the muck to the drain. Tilting my saw would not do much to speed the process. The key is to have extra oil like you have and to have time to recycle the used stuff. I won't suggest that you consider cutting cleaner rocks. I hate iron and copper. I enjoy the blues of lapis. I feel for you but hey this fun, que no?
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Post by stephan on Sept 11, 2021 21:27:24 GMT -5
Probably not too many ways to speed up the filtration, as a lot of the hold-up is from the muck, not the filter. With a pillowcase, you might be able to squeeze, twist, unlike with a paper bag.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Sept 12, 2021 8:50:24 GMT -5
Like the pillow case idea! I have about 20 hours of cutting but there were 2 hunks of Obsidian, and a chunk of Woodward ranch that had a lot of soft spots the first couple slices, and some Dino doo that tends to be a bit messy. There was also a hunk of granite that really gummed things up. I'm sure I could have cut a LOT longer, but wanted to see how difficult a clean out would be (yea not disappointed in that at all)
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brotherbill
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Post by brotherbill on Sept 12, 2021 9:22:38 GMT -5
Large coffee filters work well.
I use a dollar store super soaker spray wand to suck the oil out of the pan. Not to messy.
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Post by greig on Sept 12, 2021 10:12:42 GMT -5
I was tempted to say I could drain and muck out my hp14" in an hour but thERE is undoubtedly another hr of clean up. Paper bags seem to be less permeable and I sometimes cheat and only use one per pail but lift carefully when it time to dispose. I tried thrift store pillow cases but they drained no faster. If you have the space buckets can filter for 2 weeks but 75 % of the oil that will be recaptured is probably sooner than that. I use every tool known to squeegee it out but fiber shims from cabinetry or plastic spatulas from tile installation work best to push the muck to the drain. Tilting my saw would not do much to speed the process. The key is to have extra oil like you have and to have time to recycle the used stuff. I won't suggest that you consider cutting cleaner rocks. I hate iron and copper. I enjoy the blues of lapis. I feel for you but hey this fun, que no? Iron and copper in oil are bad, but sometime try silver. Makes everything black in short order. And the worse thing about silver is the desire to be careful and keep the fines for melting. |
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