Re: TOILET PAPER OIL FILTER

From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 07:30:13 PDT


I read somewhere that a fellow made up a stovepipe sized tube (to fit
snug on toilet paper) with a bottom soldered/welded on and a lid and a
shutoff valve near bottom. He filled the tube with toilet paper and then
poured his used oil in the top. After it soaked thru all of this...it
came out the valve at the bottom as clear as new oil. Don't know what
all this would take out of the oil.....or even add to it...but these
things would burn good in your shop stove after you tried it. Fred Martin

JTravis wrote:

> I do understand where that wood surcharge would apply, and considering
> how much it adds to the $50, if it were me, I'd be using a
> commercially made proper oil filter for it, too.
>
> Let's sum it up this way- toilet paper, to put it politely as
> possible, is used for cleaning up crap. If your restored vehicle is
> not a piece thereof, why would you want to use it instead of a proper
> filter?
>
> JTravis
>
> Thomas M McHugh wrote:
>
>> JT,
>>
>> I bought my In-A-Crate Jeep for $50. Then they added on the WOOD
>> SURCHARGE & the Jeep cost me $6000. I guess you forgot the
>> surcharge price.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "JTravis" <dagobert@ix.netcom.com>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: [MV] TOILET PAPER OIL FILTER
>>
>>
>>> Why, Tom, don'tcya know- that's what you're supposed to use to
>>> filter the oil in your brand-new-in-a-crate-for-fifty-dollars
>>> surplus Army jeep!!!
>>> (Sorry, y'all, I just couldn't resist that one!)
>>> JTravis
>>>
>>> Thomas M McHugh wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would think it might be a way to make a OJT repair in an
>>>> emergency. I would not do it in my M38A1, even though it would
>>>> fit. A filter would be much cheaper than replacing the engine
>>>> after it fails.
>>>>
>>>> I have never heard of such a homemade idea. That does not mean
>>>> someone has not tried it.
>>>>
>>>> Tom McHugh, NJ
>>>> 1952 M38A1
>>>> M-416 Trailer
>>>>
>>>> VOTE NOW FOR MVPA DIRECTORS:
>>>> Sven Johnson, Greg Wolanin, Al Nicholson, Jim Diaz
>>>> MVPA, MTA, Red Ball
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <bolton8@juno.com>
>>>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:20 PM
>>>> Subject: [MV] TOILET PAPER OIL FILTER
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have been told that you can insert a complete roll of toilet paper
>>>>> into a jeep's oil filter assembly in place of the standard oil filter
>>>>> element. The cardboard roller allows the oil to pass thru while the
>>>>> s*it paper removes impurities.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this for real or a Motor Pool hoax? If it is real, just how
>>>>> effective does it work, and in what mil-vehs would said unit work?
>>>>> Seems for the price of one NOS oil filter you can get two dozen
>>>>> rolls of
>>>>> toilet paper.
>>>>>
>>>>> LANCE
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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