Filter Bag Housing Sources?

[Dale Seeley]

Since I pretty much live in the McMaster catalog here at work, finding the proper Filter Bag Housing as pictured in Clay's still was not much problem.

Since I have a little bit of time before I need to finish the project, I've been searching for a source of used filter bag housings. Normally, I'm pretty good at that sort of search, but I've turned up nothing. It seems that these are the parts that are automatically disposed of when removing equipment like restaurant dishwashers, CNC equipment, and other stuff.

Has anyone found a source for these items used?

Regards,
Dale

[Wilson]

they pop up on ebay from time to time... but mostly very large ones or SS and then they are $$

[Clay]

Since I pretty much live in the McMaster catalog here at work,

I want a job like yours...

[Dale Seeley]

I want a job like yours...

To give you an idea of how much stuff we buy for the tinker shop, labs, and the manufacturing floor, we have same day private courier service at no extra cost. Order by 10 am, it's here by 2pm.

We should start receiving the big tins of holiday popcorn from them pretty soon

Nearly all of my accumulated filtration still parts are discarded, possibly new, stuff from lab and shop cleanups. 55 gallon poly drums that held Simple Green, various pumps, brass fittings, pipe, internal and external barrel heaters, tubing, hoses, pressure gauges, ball valves, electrical boxes, whosits, and whatnots.

I've searched the building and storage trailers for the filter housing, and believe I've finally found something we don't just have lying around from a previous project or experiment.

I am thinking about making one, we fabricate 7" dia by 28" tall stainless dewars for liquid oxygen all day long. I'd just need to make the two flanges that hold the bag and Tig them on. The hard part would be finding scrap stainless plates big enough.

[Wilson]

I am thinking about making one, we fabricate 7" dia by 28" tall stainless dewars for liquid oxygen all day long. I'd just need to make the two flanges that hold the bag and Tig them on. The hard part would be finding scrap stainless plates big enough.

just get some 1/8" SS plate and cut yourself a strip about 1/2" wide.

Roll it to the shape of the housing and weld in in a hoop shape (then welded to the housing)

[Clay]

use a metal pipe of the right diameter, weld in the flange and make a lid. I saw one that a guy made and it turned out nice. No real reason it has to be machined aluminum or SS.

[Clay]

Dale did you say Tinker? As in Tinker AFB?

[Dale Seeley]

Dale did you say Tinker? As in Tinker AFB?

No, sorry... Tinker as in "the machine shop that we're allowed to tinker around with stuff", as opposed to the "Model Shop" where the prototypes are made which is more controlled, but not as controlled as the "Production Machine Shop" where there is currently a 'wanted' poster of me because I got caught 'borrowing' their gauge pins for the prototype shop.

You guys did give me another idea, for which I'm appreciative. I did run across some 6" OD aluminum (weldable!) pipe. Scrap aluminum for flanges will be easy to find...

[Clay]

No, sorry... Tinker as in "the machine shop that we're allowed to tinker around with stuff", as opposed to the "Model Shop" where the prototypes are made which is more controlled, but not as controlled as the "Production Machine Shop" where there is currently a 'wanted' poster of me because I got caught 'borrowing' their gauge pins for the prototype shop.

You guys did give me another idea, for which I'm appreciative. I did run across some 6" OD aluminum (weldable!) pipe. Scrap aluminum for flanges will be easy to find...

You will also need to make a basket to hold the filter bag inside the housing...maybe you could buy that cheap from mcmasters.

[Marv]

We should start receiving the big tins of holiday popcorn from them pretty soon

Nearly all of my accumulated filtration still parts are discarded, possibly new, stuff from lab and shop cleanups. 55 gallon poly drums that held Simple Green, various pumps, brass fittings, pipe, internal and external barrel heaters, tubing, hoses, pressure gauges, ball valves, electrical boxes, whosits, and whatnots.

Dale, just go ahead and forward one of those popcorn tins to me....I'll take care of it over the holidays...LOL.

Wish I could score cool parts like that at work...that'd be awesome.