The way an oil bath filter works (at least these work this way) is there is a mesh screen up inside the can. As dirty air is drawn in the heavier particles hit the oil and sink to the bottom while it picks up an oil mist and carries it up through the mesh. Dust attaches itself to the oily mesh screen and the oil mist that's carried up finally gets to heavy to stay there so it runs back down taking the dust with it. When the oil gets full of dirt it doesn't get sucked up as easy so the dirt doesn't get washed down as fast and the mesh builds up with an oily sludge to the point of plugging. So the can needs to come off periodically and be washed with solvent till it runs clear and the cup needs to be serviced often. Any cheap oil will work in it. 30 weight is good. The only reason the oil bath filter was discontinued was for economic reasons among other things not because it didn't work well. It is harder to make and costlier to maintain. By the way DON'T use waste oil in it as some small amount of oil is sucked into the engine and metal particles could be in the waste oil. ...Randy
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Today's Featured Article - The Cletrac General GG and the BF Avery A - A Bit of History - by Mike Ballash. This article is a summary of what I have gathered up from various sources on the Gletrac General GG and the B. F. Avery model A tractors. I am quite sure that most of it is accurate. The General GG was made by the Cleveland Tractor Company (Cletrac) of Cleveland, Ohio. Originally the company was called the Cleveland Motor Plow Company which began in 1912, then the Cleveland Tractor Company (1917) and finally Cletrac.
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