Well, the Filter on my old 65 Series IV with the Solex Whistling 2
barrel had a steel screen top cover that looked like BIG chicken wire
(cross hatched) stamped out of a single peice of steel. The inside of
the filter was a mesh of very corse steel wool like material. It kept
out the gravel pretty well, and if you coated it with a very sticky oil
like I alway did, it kept out most of the sand and dust too. I used
either marvel mystery oil, STP, Barhdahl, or sometime my motorcycle
Chain lube which was very sticky. It worked well.
Rich
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>From: Rick Fedorchak[SMTP:richard.fedorchak@gsfc.nasa.gov]
>Sent: Monday, August 19, 1996 5:26 AM
>To: tigers@autox.team.net
>Subject: Where's my K&N ??
>
>Re: Genius at work's steel wool air filter, Keith Bradshaw writes:
>
>> Haven't you looked at a rootin tootin 1594 cc Alpine with dual carbs on
>it?
>> Mine had steel mesh air filters , one on each carb, about 4 inches
>across.
>> Sounds like someone was just upgrading a somnolent Tiger to a hot rod
>Alpine standard.
>
>Maybe. Or maybe they were too cheap to go out and buy a real air filter.
>
>In any event, and to the best of my knowledge, Steel Wool not = to
>Steel Mesh.
>
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> Rick
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