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Old 10-10-2007, 05:19 AM
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Originally Posted by rallyingrob
geez and i thought MY yard needed cleaning!!!
This house dates from the 1930s, near as I can tell. In those days, in rural Appalachia, absent municipal trash collection, folks just tossed things like cast-off car parts down the bank into the weeds. Ideally, that is. I dug up the remains of a Purolator oil filter when I erected my mailbox.

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Originally Posted by Trevor
In particular, many British cars had a cam operated fuel pump incorporating a filter with an easily removed glass bowl, so that collected debris was visible.
I noticed there appeared to be a cylindrical, screen filter of sorts inside the bowl.

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