sp-22 exhaust

[Maplewalnut]

My sp-22 (electric motor) sits in the corner of my sugarhouse but the fumes, oil mist tend to filter into the evaporator room after a full days use.

Has anyone ever extended the exhaust pipe on the muffler? Because it sits next to an outside wall, I was thnking of putting an elbow on with another section of black pipe that I could extend outside. Screw the muffler back on and it is now vented

Probably an elbow and maybe 2 feet of pipe. Would I need another elbow or could the muffler be screwed in horizontal instead of vertical

comments

[Haynes Forest Products]

You need a reclaimer. Having oil mist in the air around the sap can be bad. What you can do in a pinch is plumb the pipe into a closed container Big bucket or oil drum and and fill it with fiberglass. You want a vent/hole the size of the intake pipe. what your building is a muffler you want that air/mist combo to slow down and collect into/onto the fibers. As the mist settles on the fibers they will coalesce. Point the exhaust pipe down into the drum/bucket of fiberglass and make it so the mist has to travel down and then up. Another quick and easy is buy the roll of insulation the kind that DOES NOT HAVE PAPER on it leave it in the roll and shove it into a drom and shove the pipe in the top poke holes all around the top and at the end of the year throw it out
Making a cheap muffler will also bring some peace and quiet to the area.

[Maplewalnut]

Let me re-phrase my question.

If I were to put an elbow on the exhaust and another 2 foot spool piece and then reattach the muffler, will there be any ill effect on the pump?

[Russell Lampron]

There won't be any ill effect on the pump. You will have to connect the extension piece to the pump so that you can disconnect it easily to put oil in the pump.

[Maplewalnut]

Yikes, thanks Russ. I thought about that when I was looking at it last week but had forgotten about it.

[Jerome]

On my generator I used a piece of ss chimney liner tied onto the muffler with wire so there is no restriction, easy to remove to move etc.

[Haynes Forest Products]

If your getting that much mist in the air is your muffler full of oil and really working. I would worry about the amount of oil mist that floats in the air settling on the shingles, tanks, trees. Over a few weeks I would think things will get slimmy.

[Russell Lampron]

If it is like mine he isn't getting very much mist. Just enough to want to get it out of the sugarhouse. I don't get anywhere near as much out of my SP 22 as I got out of my Delaval 73.

[Maplewalnut]

Exactly Russ, just enough you can smell it.