Making oil filters?

[slusher]

Does anyone make their own oil filters?  What did you use?  Thanks 

[Psychographic]

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.

[slusher]

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...

[Psychographic]

17 minutes ago, slusher said:

Thank you David...

Here is one I made.

 

[Russell C]

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.

[Art Anderson]

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

[slusher]

 

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...