<div dir="ltr">Thank you Jeff, that was what I was hoping. <div><br></div><div>Much appreciated!</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>doug</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:00 AM Jeff Scarbrough <<a href="mailto:fishplate@gmail.com">fishplate@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">The only oil strainer I'm familiar with is the one on air-cooled Volkswagens.  Seems like it's something under a millimeter....so less than 0.04" or so.  Getting into 20 or 30 mesh, if I read the chart correctly.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 13:49 old dirtbeard <<a href="mailto:dirtbeard@gmail.com" target="_blank">dirtbeard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Hi guys, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Does anybody know what would be the approximate appropriate mesh size of the screens used to filter engine oil feeding out of the oil tanks or frames on old British bikes (e.g., mesh size of 20, 40, 60, etc.)? </div></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">I am looking at these options from McMaster-Carr: </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit"><a href="https://www.mcmaster.com/filter-screens/low-pressure-bronze-y-strainers-8/?fbclid=IwAR3zzH6D3awtNoVHjkpnQ2vcwzMnH_M7fIyf4jpnLguZLAw9Kfy1FBZzfLw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" role="link" style="text-decoration-line:none;outline:none;list-style:none;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;display:inline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit" target="_blank">https://www.mcmaster.com/.../low-pressure-bronze-y.../...</a></span></div></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">I have added a paper filter on the return-side, so mostly I really want to filter the debris that may come out of the frame until the paper filter has had a chance to entirely clean the reservoir. </div></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-size:15px"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit">Too large of a mesh and it will not stop the debris, of course, but too small and it would restrict/block the gravity flow of the oil.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:inherit"><br></div><div style="font-family:inherit">Thank you very much!</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Best,<div>doug</div></div></div></div>
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