recovery tank filter for STM GENIE

[glenboy]

I'm looking for bawb....my recovery tank filter has stopped letting air flow thru....I believe its a 2 5/8 female stainless about 10 1/2 " long......WHERE CAN I FIND THEM??? Locally or However


GLEN

 

[Doug Cox]

You can also send Shawn Forsythe an email since he was a "Big Wig" at Steam Genie.

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

Message sent to Glenboy.

 

[bob vawter]

i sent my last two to Chris Lee...

lil' shit still owes me two small boxes of .22........

 

[dgardner]

Bawb, I'm not familiar with the SG - are the filters just FPT pipe thread inlet like the ones Cobbs sells?

This one is 2-1/2 pipe thread X 12" long - is that close?

 

[bob vawter]

no dan...there are no threads at all..jus slip on....the pipe size is 2 7/8" OD so the fiter is SLIGHTLY larger than that...
all stainless...no plastic.....
damed if if i can remenber where to get one...'pensive...'bout $100....i think!
Modernistic MAY have a few used ones talk to Tom

 

[glenboy]

Just spoke too tom.....he is on the prowl for one.....thank you bawb! I believe this is causing my vac flow to just choke.....the filter looks clean...but wont allow air too pass thru...reducing my extraction big time

 

[glenboy]

Has anyone ever had this happen.???..I believe this is why I am roasting belts and have very minimal extraction...

 

[dgardner]

A picture would be interesting - I assume you've tried to clean it? Wire brush? Soak in descaler?

 

[glenboy]

Its never filled with fuzz....you can't even tell its restricted...so I threw my vac hose into the end od it today...and my vac guage went up....normal...but the sound was unuasual..yes I soaked in descaler overnight...wire brushed it and nothing came of it...solution was clean too...so I ran the machine today with no filter in recovery tank...ran like mad...huge vac...

 

[bob vawter]

NO WIRE BRUSHES!!!!!
Pull it off and spray water from THE INSIDE
Once you wire brush it.....
It is pretty much toast.....

 

[glenboy]

Bob its toast...why? I have no clue how this has become so restricted...from within....THERE is no visible obstruction....

 

[dgardner]

I'm just thinking out loud here - maybe Bawb will chime in - but if the filter is really old could the structure of it be weakened to the point that when installed and under vacuum it is collapsing inward and restricting airflow? When you shut the machine down and look it might not be apparent. Grasping at straws here....

 

[dgardner]

Not able to post a pic?

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Ezy flow makes them close to you.

Ann Arbor MI

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

Glenboy,

I gather you struck-out with the info I gave you earlier. In a pinch, you can use a Flow Ezy filter # PASS -50-2 1/2-100

Contact them, and find out how to buy. You will have to clear the threads out to achieve a 2 7/8" bore. Any machine shop can do it in 10 minutes.
http://www.flowezyfilters.com/

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Thanks Shawn, you beat me to it by seconds.

 

[dgardner]

Purely coincidentally I ordered a Flow Ezy filter (not the one you need though - different model) day before yesterday. Flow Ezy directed me to one of their distributors:

http://www.applied.com/

You might give them a call.

 

[bob vawter]

with no filter in recovery tank

 

[Larry Cobb]

We carry several of them . . .

but they are all threaded with female pipe thread . . .

http://www.cobbcarpet.com/zen/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=vac filter PASS

There are some that have a flexible female end to slip over tubing . . .

Larry

 

[bob vawter]

they'll be to tall and hit the tank lid...
yous guys don know Steam Genies at all

 

[glenboy]

Stopped into applied technology over in Sterling Heights Mi.. dropped my old filter off so they could search out a new one...left there went to see Tom at Modernistic and they had a filter that fits loosely but does the job...looks just like the pic posted above

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Tom's first class.

 

[bob vawter]

too bad Glen....i sent TWO filters down to TN....three months ago
SUPPOSE to trade for some .22 ammo........


never saw the ammo!

 

[glenboy]

I just opened my old filter and the screen mesh part has a layer of dried silt on it...from the inside....pics later...

 

[bob vawter]

ya they don last forever....i worked one prolly close to eighteen years tho...
always rinse from inside out.......

 

[KevinL]

WE powerwash ours from the inside about once per month. Never any crusty buildup.

 

[Larry Cobb]

We have never used a 100 mesh screen in our vac filters . . .

Clogs too easily . . .

We currently use a 30 mesh for better flow characteristics . . .

They don't get clogged near as easily . . .

Also, I think a 50 series filter should be a 2" FPT . . .

 

[glenboy]

Ok the filter I now have is sapphire filter...im not sure of the micron size?
Although I have been using it for just over a month and already noticed reduction in airflow..vac..I believe this was stated prior on here...Aklthough with a new SS filter, and a new PC quad jet wand...my cleanings have improved massively...and the drytimes haven't gone unnoticed by me or my customers....I am so freakin happy...