[Shop-talk] oil pump screen...mesh size?

[David Scheidt]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Steve Hammatt Mount Vernon WA USA
<gsteve at hammatt.com> wrote:
> I need to make an oil pump screen for an antique
> automobile.  I'm planning on creating a brass woven wire
> cloth tube (soldered along the seam) and then soldered
> to two brass washers, one at each end, to hold its shape.
> I'm interested in anyone's experience with the woven brass
> wire cloth and related mesh size suitable for an oil pick-up
> screen.  Super thanks.

the ones I'm familiar with are of reasonably tight mesh, but have been
larger than a tube, with the mesh held onto some sort of frame to hold
their shape.  I presume that's because that gives a bigger surface
area.  (Bigger surface area means less loss of pressure when the
filter gets clogged.)

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David Scheidt
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