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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by DownunderDutchman » 26 Sep 2019, 8:27 am

TassieTiger wrote:^Ask the question? Write an email or letter - lodge a complaint with the ombudsman - let the govt do the fighting for you against er...the government. It will be funny to watch and you’ll learn a lot during the process.

The ombudsman is a govt agency that deals with complaints against...Government - so your paying for the service anyway...

LOL I like your thinking! But the letter went into the bin, not that I don't care, I just can't be bothered with them, and have enough grey hair to want to add more to it LOL.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by TassieTiger » 26 Sep 2019, 9:14 am

That’s exactly the response they are counting on.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by DownunderDutchman » 26 Sep 2019, 9:24 am

TassieTiger wrote:That’s exactly the response they are counting on.
No doubt.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by elnino » 26 Sep 2019, 9:56 am

I wonder if they cross reference importation of such devices with firearms licensed citizens? i.e Would it have got past customs without issue if perhaps it was sent to a person that was not licensed I wonder?

It could just be that a description of 'fuel filter' on the customs declaration automatically flags it as a suspect device without them even assessing the item.

Next minute you will have a 'random' inspection....
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by sungazer » 26 Sep 2019, 10:06 am

I think the description Solvent Trap has been flagged. As a firearm owner I think there is a much greater risk of actually being charged with something serious rather than just have the product confiscated.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by DownunderDutchman » 26 Sep 2019, 10:09 am

elnino wrote:I wonder if they cross reference importation of such devices with firearms licensed citizens? i.e Would it have got past customs without issue if perhaps it was sent to a person that was not licensed I wonder?

It could just be that a description of 'fuel filter' on the customs declaration automatically flags it as a suspect device without them even assessing the item.

Next minute you will have a 'random' inspection....

I welcome to my house for any inspection, as long as they adhere to the law like I do, but don't expect for me to make them a coffee LOL :D
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Blr243 » 26 Sep 2019, 11:12 am

Nearly everyone can get a long range rifle , lever shotguns, straight pull shotguns but we can’t have a sound moderator , silly
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Ecobogan » 26 Sep 2019, 10:31 pm

A couple of years ago those fuel filters were selling like hot cakes in the US. One joint had a variety available in a range of camo schemes! Because you need that....a camouflaged fuel filter in your umm..car, truck, excavator.
I thought that was hilarious and no doubt helped shine the bureaucratic spotlight on the whole caper.
But seriously, the suppressor business is one hell of a vexing issue as a gun owner in this country.
It's considered very poor form, in countries where they're legal, not to use one.
Probably a poor comparison but it's kinda like the cops wanting to lock me up for running a muffler on my YZ 450.
Guns, like dirt bikes, are loud and should be quietened for the common good

Here's a good one....
http://gunsnfreedom.com/australia-is-cr ... ed-in/2230
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Sergeant Hartman » 26 Sep 2019, 11:50 pm

While i do agree that we need sound moderators for OH&S issue.

But can you explain what vehicle comes with that type of fuel filter as standard or as a legal optional extra?

It looks like s**t, smells like s**t, tastes like s**t....its 100% gonna be s**t. Hehehe
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by TassieTiger » 27 Sep 2019, 8:01 am

Ziad wrote:While i do agree that we need sound moderators for OH&S issue.

But can you explain what vehicle comes with that type of fuel filter as standard or as a legal optional extra?

It looks like s**t, smells like s**t, tastes like s**t....its 100% gonna be s**t. Hehehe


Can you show me a Harley that doesn’t have illegal pipes on it? (Generally speaking...).
I’ve got a gsxr1000 with non homoglated rubber and nitrous...that nitrous should not be allowed...I get bored at the track and I’m sucking on the bottle and well...s**t. What was I saying? Yes. Fuel filters...you should be able to use any fuel filter you want on your car...?
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Wombat » 27 Sep 2019, 1:48 pm

bladeracer wrote:
elnino wrote:I still don't really understand the restrictions on suppressors here in Aus but it is what it is. It's not rocket science to make something that would do 'well enough' if you were inclined to go down that path vs trying to import something that is highly likely to be flagged and get you in trouble. Or perhaps they are just that thick that they think these things come in un-noticed.

Having said that, I can't recall any news report of gun crime in aus that involved a suppressed firearm yet you'd think it would be prolific since it is so easy to make them. The politicians are probably patting themselves on the back for that because 'they got rid of them'. Lots of sawn off shotguns and .22s still though. Overall though, way more holdups and robberies are involving other weapons such as screwdrivers, knives, spanners and other inanimate (often ridiculous) objects.


The most well known incident was the murder of Colin Winchester with a suppressed 10/22 in the 80's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Winchester#Death

I can't recall any others.

There was this guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Coulston
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Sergeant Hartman » 27 Sep 2019, 2:46 pm

TassieTiger wrote:
Ziad wrote:While i do agree that we need sound moderators for OH&S issue.

But can you explain what vehicle comes with that type of fuel filter as standard or as a legal optional extra?

It looks like s**t, smells like s**t, tastes like s**t....its 100% gonna be s**t. Hehehe


Can you show me a Harley that doesn’t have illegal pipes on it? (Generally speaking...).
I’ve got a gsxr1000 with non homoglated rubber and nitrous...that nitrous should not be allowed...I get bored at the track and I’m sucking on the bottle and well...s**t. What was I saying? Yes. Fuel filters...you should be able to use any fuel filter you want on your car...?


Mate as i said, outta not actually a filter, or looks like a filter, but with your logic a AK47 should be fine to be purchased cuz.....i mean its just a metal bottle cap opener

:sarcasm:
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by TassieTiger » 27 Sep 2019, 5:05 pm

Those fuel filters still have the capacity to be used as decent fuel filters - some ppl would like the look of one of those filters in the bay vs a plastic inline...so your kinda saying that if person A wants one in his show car, he can have one as long as he’s not a licensed firearm owner?
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by bladeracer » 27 Sep 2019, 6:44 pm

Wombat wrote:There was this guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Coulston


Good find, but I don't think a fabricated silencer counts when we're discussing legally owning them. Legal or illegal, anybody can fabricate them, that shouldn't have any bearing on our laws.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by wanneroo » 28 Sep 2019, 1:01 am

At least here in the USA, from what I know, the idea behind the "solvent traps" is that they are threaded on the other end to accept not a fuel filter but a regular oil filter and judging from Youtube videos they seem to work ok for a while but I don't think they last long.

Don't know if I mentioned it in the past but here in the USA you can make your own suppressor legally, but you need to file a Form 1 with the BATFE and pay your $200 tax stamp. Once you get that back you can buy the parts and make it.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Sergeant Hartman » 28 Sep 2019, 7:16 am

Tassie, i know you are just being argumentative... But please use a better example... let's argue is the right headlight actually smaller or is it the angle... lol
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Ecobogan » 28 Sep 2019, 8:58 am

Ziad wrote:While i do agree that we need sound moderators for OH&S issue.

But can you explain what vehicle comes with that type of fuel filter as standard or as a legal optional extra?

It looks like s**t, smells like s**t, tastes like s**t....its 100% gonna be s**t. Hehehe


They're an aftermarket fuel filter typically used in diesel engines as an addition to the existing factory fuel filter set up. WIX manufacturers many types of filters and the 24003 has been available for years.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Sergeant Hartman » 28 Sep 2019, 10:01 am

https://www.amazon.com/WIX-Filters-4200 ... B000CSIOHQ

Mate that's different than the picture posted by blade
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Wombat » 28 Sep 2019, 10:13 am

bladeracer wrote:
Wombat wrote:There was this guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Coulston


Good find, but I don't think a fabricated silencer counts when we're discussing legally owning them. Legal or illegal, anybody can fabricate them, that shouldn't have any bearing on our laws.


I agree entirely. It would be interesting to see the statistics for the UK and NZ where suppressors were used or not in commission of a crime. My feeling is that they are not used despite being readily available.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Ecobogan » 28 Sep 2019, 11:10 am

Ziad wrote:https://www.amazon.com/WIX-Filters-42003-Heavy-Filter/dp/B000CSIOHQ

Mate that's different than the picture posted by blade


I may've missed your point but the filter in question is part no. 24003. You've quoted part no. 42003...an entirely different animal
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Ecobogan » 28 Sep 2019, 3:46 pm

bladeracer wrote:
elnino wrote:
bladeracer wrote:Colin Winchester with a suppressed 10/22 in the 80's.


Interesting - It was back when they were legal to possess.


I don't know about ACT but they were still legal in the early eighties in SA - $20 each, often a boxfull of them on the counter beside the till for impulse buyers :-)


Were they the GSA models? Pretty sure they had 'Made in Australia - stop noise pollution' stamped on the body to give an idea of the more sensible thinking of yore.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by bladeracer » 28 Sep 2019, 7:17 pm

Ecobogan wrote:[I don't know about ACT but they were still legal in the early eighties in SA - $20 each, often a boxfull of them on the counter beside the till for impulse buyers :-)


Were they the GSA models? Pretty sure they had 'Made in Australia - stop noise pollution' stamped on the body to give an idea of the more sensible thinking of yore.[/quote]

I really don't remember as I never actually used it, I wasn't equipped or capable of threading a barrel back then :-)
It was quite compact, maybe eight-inches long and an inch diameter, all blued steel, with threaded end caps. The threaded end had a short extension to fit the barrel thread. I left it in Adelaide when I went back to Perth in '85.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Sergeant Hartman » 28 Sep 2019, 8:51 pm

Mate, you win...i am not gonna argue
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Wombat » 28 Sep 2019, 11:06 pm

bladeracer wrote:
Ecobogan wrote:[I don't know about ACT but they were still legal in the early eighties in SA - $20 each, often a boxfull of them on the counter beside the till for impulse buyers :-)


Were they the GSA models? Pretty sure they had 'Made in Australia - stop noise pollution' stamped on the body to give an idea of the more sensible thinking of yore.


I really don't remember as I never actually used it, I wasn't equipped or capable of threading a barrel back then :-)
It was quite compact, maybe eight-inches long and an inch diameter, all blued steel, with threaded end caps. The threaded end had a short extension to fit the barrel thread. I left it in Adelaide when I went back to Perth in '85.[/quote]

They sold slip on adapters for common rifles too so you didn't have to thread. I nearly bought one when in Adelaide in the mid-late 80's but luckily didn't as they were not legal in Victoria at the time.
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Re: Interesting fuel filter

Post by Ecobogan » 29 Sep 2019, 1:37 pm

Ziad wrote:Mate, you win...i am not gonna argue


Haha! Don't mean to be nit picky...let's call it a draw
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