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Personnaly I’d avoid the Filtermist. Admitted, it’s cheap, but also junk. I spent several hours re-engineering it and even so, it sucks. Not good at removing oil but will pull more than enough coolant out of the tank. Should have got one of those pricey vortex units..
Suggestion? Shop Vac. (See below.)
For anyone liking the Nexjen units, I've got a small mountain in Kansas I'd like to sell you. Or better yet, I've got a near new Nexjen unit I'd like to sell you.
My local tool guy said this thing was going to work great as an affordable skimmer compared with the many MUCH MORE expensive types. Ever price out a centrifuge unit? Expensive isn't the half of it. My experience has been that the Nexjen doesn't work... at all. I'm running Qualchem Extreme 251C and trying to filter out Shell Tonna 68 in a Mori SV-50 that has wrap around tanks with limited access and many partitions.
I've run the thing plenty. Never has it reached a place where oil collects on the surface in any kind of quantity that you can actually drain off. The level of the coolant compared to the drain ports is a tad too high, and from I can see not adjustable. When you open the drains most of what you're draining out is coolant. I've played some games with it by opening the bottom drains to lower the level slightly while draining from above, but mostly ended up making a mess. I just went over to my Nexjen that has sat undisturbed for at least a month or more, and found maybe a scant 1/8' layer of oil sitting on top of the coolant left in it. That's ten times better then what I ever saw when actually using it.
You need great access, and the ability to move it around from tank to tank because it won't draw things from clear across the pond that well. Especially partitioned ones. I've seen instruction videos where you need to get the intake set to the right level so you're getting the right stream and mostly skimming oil off the top and little else. With my unit, even at full down adjustment of the float balls, meaning maximum intake height in the tank, I still felt it was sitting too low to do it's job properly.
I've gone back to my my tried and true that I've used for years. A shop vac. The trick to those is to take the auto or round nozzle you may have and cut some small notches in the end of it. (Imagine the top of the castle piece in a chess set.) Helps create a flow that draws from all around.
I'd like to know if others have completely different results and can suggest things I may be doing wrong, but from what I know you're just supposed to run the thing and drain as needed.
If you live near Saint Paul MN and want to haul this thing out of here for $225.00 come get it. Not willing to bother with packing and shipping it just yet. I'll rinse it out for you and it will be like new.
Dave
Suggestion? Shop Vac. (See below.)
For anyone liking the Nexjen units, I've got a small mountain in Kansas I'd like to sell you. Or better yet, I've got a near new Nexjen unit I'd like to sell you.
My local tool guy said this thing was going to work great as an affordable skimmer compared with the many MUCH MORE expensive types. Ever price out a centrifuge unit? Expensive isn't the half of it. My experience has been that the Nexjen doesn't work... at all. I'm running Qualchem Extreme 251C and trying to filter out Shell Tonna 68 in a Mori SV-50 that has wrap around tanks with limited access and many partitions.
I've run the thing plenty. Never has it reached a place where oil collects on the surface in any kind of quantity that you can actually drain off. The level of the coolant compared to the drain ports is a tad too high, and from what I can see not adjustable. When you open the drains most of what you're draining out is coolant. I've played some games with it by opening the bottom drains to lower the level slightly while draining from above, but mostly ended up making a mess. I just went over to my Nexjen that has sat undisturbed for at least a month or more, and found maybe a scant 1/8' layer of oil sitting on top of the coolant left in it. That's ten times better then what I ever saw when actually using it.
You need great access, and the ability to move it around from tank to tank because it won't draw things from clear across the pond that well. Especially partitioned ones. I've seen instruction videos where you need to get the intake set to the right level so you're getting the right stream and mostly skimming oil off the top and little else. With my unit, even at full down adjustment of the float balls, meaning maximum intake height in the tank, I still felt it was sitting too low to do it's job properly.
I've gone back to my my tried and true that I've used for years. A shop vac. The trick to those is to take the auto or round nozzle you may have and cut some small notches in the end of it. (Imagine the top of the castle piece in a chess set.) Helps create a flow that draws from all around.
I'd like to know if others have completely different results and can suggest things I may be doing wrong, but from what I know you're just supposed to run the thing and drain as needed.
If you live near Saint Paul MN and want to haul this thing out of here for $225.00 come get it. Not willing to bother with packing and shipping it just yet. I'll rinse it out for you and it will be like new.
Dave
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