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    Senior Member Dave S's Avatar
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    Default Oil Filter Can Cutter

    Finally worked past my problem.......To cheap to pay for a good oil filter can cutter, won't use a crappy one; and tired of pestering my friends to borrow a good one.

    Maybe building is what we do anyway, so had to try making one. Picked up the two small ball bearings at a local surplus shop for a couple bucks, the cutter wheel from Menard's aircraft plumbing supply for a couple more bucks. All else is scrounged from around my shop so less than $10 for parts I had to buy. Designed it to accommodate both large and small filters and it has worked perfectly.
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    Cleaver and well built to aircraft standards I can tell!!

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    Default Re: Oil Filter Can Cutter

    Nice job, Dave! I use a giant tubing cutter that I got when I was still officially a working man. It probably cost at least 10 times what yours did, and it also probably doesn't work as well.
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    Default Re: Oil Filter Can Cutter

    Dave,
    I like the adaptation of the easily obtained parts. Good thinking.
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    Default Re: Oil Filter Can Cutter

    once a homebuilder ,always a homebuilder,some great ingenuity there Dave,nice job. Bruce N199CL

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