hey everybody it's retired at 40 I just finished a batch in my harvest right and
I've noticed that there's a lot of new harvestright owners that are looking for
some tips and some tricks and since I have some used oil now I'm going to show
you today how to make an inexpensive filtering system that's pretty
unbeatable really so if you're new to the harvest right and freeze-drying
then you'll quickly notice that one of your least favorite things to do with
freeze drying is changing the oil filtering the oil and if you haven't
checked out the Dairyland oil video I highly recommend checking that out it's
a really good oil it's a lot better than most other things and you can get it in
quite a few places now so since we have a dirty pan of oil let's go into the
kitchen I'll show you how to make a filter so if you've been freeze drying
awhile this trick might be old hat for you but one of the things I love about
harvest right is there such a good community of people that are willing to
share their knowledge their experience etc in this particular tip actually came
from a viewer of mine and I tried it out and I loved it and I'll never look back
so here's the Dairyland oil I believe they use it for milkers for milking cows
on the vacuum pumps it works really really good for the vacuum pump for the
freeze dryer you can see this oil has had two cycles through it actually still
translucent you can still see through it surprisingly and it's still just a real
deep blue color normally if you put other vacuum pump oil in it has it pulls
in smells it turns funky colors and this one actually has detergents in it as
well so it keeps the internals of the vacuum pump clean at the same time as
you're using it I'll put a link where you can get this on Amazon but you can
actually get this quite a few different places now a lot of farm stores carry it
true values carry it and it's about the same price as anything else that you can
buy so the filtering system is extremely
easy it's just a you take a Brita pitcher you can find them at Salvation
Army or goodwill or somewhere like that where you can buy a used one on ebay it
doesn't really matter if it's used because you're
putting oil into it anyway and I love to print a picture system also because it
has a pour spout on it so it really saves a mess when you've got your oil
filtered you can just pour it back into a container I keep an extra oil
container and I put my I keep my new oil in the new container and then I put my
once filtered oil into another container and then I just keep moving it into the
once filtered and then once I'm full and the once filtered I start using that
once filtered so when you buy a Brita pitcher it's going to have this
removable lid and then inside there will be a Brita filter you just pull that
Brita filter out so it's completely hollow and all there is to a Brita
filter is just a reservoir on the top a reservoir on the bottom and then the
filter system is in between so you need a regular old roll of butt-wipe
you're gonna take the inside roll and you're gonna remove that you kind of
have to loosen it up from the paper before you can pull it out but you kind
of just keep working it and then what we want to do is either remove some off the
outside or some off the inside so we can squish this together and then that will
go down in your filter hole so even though this looks like it's way too big
to fit down in this you can squeeze this together really really good and the
tighter you can get this squeezed and down into that hole the better that's
going to give you the better filtration it's going to separate more particles
it's going to hold water so now that we've got the right size roll we're just
gonna squeeze it together as tight as we can give it a twist
and I actually leave a little bit left on top and that way when I'm done with
it I can pull it out now I'm just going to pour the used oil right back into
there and what's really cool is it will hold one whole cycles worth of oil you
can see there's nothing coming out the bottom because it takes a very long time
for it to soak all that paper get all the way through there and in the
meantime it's pulling all that junk out of the oil I'm gonna start a batch in
the morning so I want some fresh oil so I'm gonna let this sit overnight get it
all nice and filtered and then I'm gonna throw it into a batch so that's been
sitting for about fourteen hours you can see it's crystal clear again and it does
take a while this first time for this for the toilet paper in here to get
soaked with oil once it gets soaked then it actually will travel a lot faster but
it does take a while for that oil to get soaked into there the first time so now
what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how quick it makes this little
change when it's just ready to go like that and you can just switch it out and
get ready for your next batch so I'm going to I'm going to do a timer and I'm
gonna go right now keep in mind that most of this time is actually just
waiting for the oil to drain just coming up on two minutes all right we're
getting to the end and a little tip for you I like to when it's getting close to
the end like this I like to actually leave it open and pour some new stuff in
the top because it kind of flushes out the junk that's in the bottom there and
time so I ended up with three minutes and 17 seconds in about two minutes and
45 seconds I've got 3 minutes and 17 seconds is actually just waiting for
that oil to come out so if you have something else to do really your oil
change is only taking like 30 to 45 seconds so what's super cool about this
filter is that it can actually hold a couple batches and I think they actually
make a bigger container than this one I'm not sure how big this one is but
they do make a bigger one this can go right into there again and filter
another cycle and you just keep repeating that all the time and then
when you get a little down or it gets full you put it in your once filtered
container and your for a batch all the time you always have
fresh oil and if you stay on top of this and keep your oil filtered all the time
I mean a gallon of Dairyland oil will last
who knows depends on how much you really use the freeze dryer but it'll last for
a really long time so I hope you found this video informative I know it's kind
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