slusher Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Does anyone make their own oil filters? What did you use? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychographic Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I have made them from a piece of sprue , sand the flash off so it's round, cut it square, sand the bottom to a convex shape. Then you could either glue a piece is sheet stock and sand it to just a little larger than the filter, or cement a thin rod around the top edge to make the lip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 32 minutes ago, Psychographic said: I have made them from a piece of sprue , sand the flash off so it's round, cut it square, sand the bottom to a convex shape. Then you could either glue a piece is sheet stock and sand it to just a little larger than the filter, or cement a thin rod around the top edge to make the lip. Thank you David... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychographic Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 17 minutes ago, slusher said: Thank you David... Here is one I made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell C Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 I use sprue, but via the additional step of chucking it into my motor tool to 'lathe-turn' it into a perfect circle - see my post here, where you can scroll down for the two additional pics I have there of other stuff which can be made with that method. The filter for my Y-block build was done that way, it's shown temporarily out on the wire peg in this photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Another method, if you lack both styrene sprue or rod stock large enough, and lack a lathe, would be to get the appropriate size styrene tubing in Evergreen, cut to length, and either fill with gap-filling CA glue and an accelerator, or blank off the exposed end with say, a strip of .040" evergreen flat strip styrene, then once the glue as set, file and sand to shape--I've used both techniques for shapes and detail parts such as this, decades ago, before I acquired my Sherline late and vertical mill, so I know the concept works. Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 18 hours ago, Russell C said: I use sprue, but via the additional step of chucking it into my motor tool to 'lathe-turn' it into a perfect circle - see my post here, where you can scroll down for the two additional pics I have there of other stuff which can be made with that method. The filter for my Y-block build was done that way, it's shown temporarily out on the wire peg in this photo. 3 hours ago, Art Anderson said: Another method, if you lack both styrene sprue or rod stock large enough, and lack a lathe, would be to get the appropriate size styrene tubing in Evergreen, cut to length, and either fill with gap-filling CA glue and an accelerator, or blank off the exposed end with say, a strip of .040" evergreen flat strip styrene, then once the glue as set, file and sand to shape--I've used both techniques for shapes and detail parts such as this, decades ago, before I acquired my Sherline late and vertical mill, so I know the concept works. Art Thanks guys for the tips... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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