Re: Drying tranny oil (idea)

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Interesting idea..  Can I assume that the water will settle
out of the oil to the bottom of the drum, or does some of
it mix in with the oil? (almost like the oil absorbs some
of the water).. One of the prior posts talked about mineral
oil being able to absorb water.. this method would work for
the majority of the water, but then I'm still left with
what's in the oil.. Freezing the base of a 55 gal durm
might be a problem too.. ;)

Coiling In Pittsbrugh
Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <BillEaver-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> Just as a bulk process when working with wax that is
> often contaminated 
> with water, I siphon melted wax (harder than you think)
> from my steel pail, 
> then what is left and is known to have water in it I pour
> into a brass tapered 
> cone form and throw it in the freezer. I leave a wire
> ring in the wax so that I
> 
> can pull the wax out from the form, then its easy to
> break the ice from the 
> wax. In your case I would try to freeze the last four
> inches of each barrel, 
> while transferring to a clean 55 Gal drum, then freezing
> the small remnant 
> separately. Then while pouring the cold oil the ice would
> stay stuck at the 
> bottom of the small can. Oh, as a hint to find out if
> there IS water in wax or 
> oil it's easy. in a flat bottomed steel can I heat the
> lowest end of the can
> with 
> my propane torch, if I hear the typical banging in the
> can (the water trying to
> boil 
> under oil or melted wax) I then know there is water at
> the bottom of this can. 
> Hope this helps. 
> Denis Despins 
> KC6TRW
> 
> 


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