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Dirty Oil "Crusader" Sells Filter System
Doug Mickelson is a crusader for cleaner engines who has a state-of-the-art oil changing and filtering system that he says is unlike anything on the market. Mickelson will also tell you things you won't hear anywhere else, such as, "The new oil you buy is often as dirty, or even dirtier, than the old oil you're taking
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Dirty Oil "Crusader" Sells Filter System TRACTORS Hydraulics 29-1-37 Doug Mickelson is a crusader for cleaner engines who has a state-of-the-art oil changing and filtering system that he says is unlike anything on the market. Mickelson will also tell you things you won't hear anywhere else, such as, "The new oil you buy is often as dirty, or even dirtier, than the old oil you're taking out."
His system lets you filter new oil before it goes in and also "repurifies" used hydraulic oil back to original specs so it can be reused.
"This one machine will work on any weight or type of oil without cross contamination. It makes oil changes easier so you're likely to do it more regularly," says Michelson.
His Oil Transfer system has a bank of filters so that whenever you switch from one type of oil to another, you use a separate hose and a separate filter assembly. All filter assemblies have pressure gauges to indicate when to change the elements. A balance of very fine scrubber filters and water removal filters are available that he says are far superior to original equipment filters.
A 3-wheeled, 12-gal. waste oil pan is designed to roll under tractors, trucks, and heavy equipment to gather the waste oil and hydraulic fluid. As the waste oil is draining from the vehicle into the pan, it's pumped out through a 25-ft. discharge hose to a holding tank or drum. The pan has a removable 180-micron stainless steel cloth insert through which dirty oil is filtered before it's pumped out.
The system also includes a transparent 27-gal. new oil dispensing cart with a light on it for night time work. The cart rides on a pair of 10-in. pneumatic wheels and has a 23-ft. dispensing hose. An electric-driven 3-gal. per minute pump mounts on top of the tank. A 97 percent accurate digital meter measures and dispenses oil from the cart.
"It eliminates the need to carry jugs of oil up ladders to fill big equipment. And it ensures that you're not getting contaminants into engines, which are built with much tighter tolerances today than in the past," says Michelson.
"Most farmers don't realize the level of contaminants in the new oil they're putting into their vehicles. That's why new oil has to be cleaned up. This information is a fact and can be backed up with documented proof which we're happy to provide to anyone. A properly taken sample of your oil will verify its contaminated level."
Why is today's hydraulic oil dirtier than it was in the past? "One reason is that bulk dealers and oil manufacturers are handling a lot more volume than they used to and they're often careless in reusing containers," says Mickelson. "Many of the 55-gal. barrels that farmers return to their dealer get reused, even though they have water and gravel and sludge in them. It's pretty hard to clean them out completely."
Michelson also thinks most farmers are missing the boat by not recycling dirty hydraulic fluid. "No one promotes the idea because they want to sell you new oil. But there's really no reason not to reuse it if you filter it properly," he says."
He says Caterpillar is recycling all new hydraulic oil in their own in-house equipment. "They run some of their equipment for more than 10,000 hours on the same hydraulic fluid, filtering it over and over again."
Problems with new fluid have become so bad that Caterpillar factories now require that new oil be of a minimum cleanliness level of 16 13 ISO code in order to satisfy the warranties on its new equipment. But typically, new oil is far dirtier. "One Caterpillar laboratory manager told me that before they started scrubbing their new oil in house, he was telling his service people to leave old hydraulic oil in because it was cleaner than the new oil."
Michelson's Oil Transfer System sells for about $3,000. His website is full of detailed information.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Doug Mickelson, Oil Transfer Systems LLC, 7009 Sunnyside Street, Horace, N. Dak. 58104 (ph 701 282-3617; website: www. oiltransfer. com).
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