Filtering fuel

[Owl]

Stop in at your local automotive painter and ask for a paint filter. Failing that, double one of your wife's old stockings, tie a knot in the end and presto.

If it was me, I'd turn it to lawnmower fuel though.

[rwh]

Thanks all.

I went with the coffee filter paper in a funnel.

It all seems ok, except the one jerry can that I think must have had some oil in it or something - the petrol came out a bit thick, and a different colour, so I stopped. Hopefully it'll be ok Now I just need to figure out where to get rid of the contents of that can ...

Richard

[p.dath]

It all seems ok, except the one jerry can that I think must have had some oil in it or something - the petrol came out a bit thick, and a different colour, so I stopped. Hopefully it'll be ok Now I just need to figure out where to get rid of the contents of that can ...

Ring your local council and ask them. In Auckland the local councils have a regular hazardous chemical collection facility, and yours might as well.

[Pixie]

Hi all,

On Friday night, in a state of urgency (the tap disintegrated), I had to dump my petrol into whatever was handy. Luckily, this was 3 plastic jerry cans, but they (may have) had the remains of dirty fuel in them, and the funnel I used was also a bit dirty.

So before putting it back in the bike (or car, for that matter), I want to filter it. Unfortunately google only finds me fuel filters to fit to the vehicle, not methods to filter large quantities all at once.

I've heard that in the old days pilots used to filter petrol through a chamois (presumably the piece of leather as used for cleaning, not the whole animal), but one of those would cost me more than the petrol is worth, and I'd still have to mount it somehow.

Any suggestions? Failing methods to filter the fuel, does anyone know where/how I can dispose of it safely, in an environmentally friendly way?

Thanks,
Richard

Use the whole animal.



Fold some paper towel into a cone and put into a plastic funnel and pour the fuel through that.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5124822_fold-filter-paper.html

[CeeBee]

Specially if theres is H2O in it......ditch it m8