Beer Can Air Filter

[Timbone]

So I am riding my motorbike to work this morning in light traffic and, boy, is this thing running great! The engine just keeps getting better and better - even after thousands of miles!

After my full workday, I give the bike a lookover and - hey! - the air filter is GONE! Ha!

So I rode the thing home, stopping along the way at the hardware store for some 4mm screws.

I've been amassing styrofoam pieces lately and I dug up some foam that came in the packing of my newest bike helmet. Quickly searching through the archives of MotoredBikes.com I saw an example of a beer can air filter. I can do that!

So I drank half a Pabst Blue Ribbon, poured out the rest, then cut the two ends down to around 1/2" thickness. I drilled small screwholes 1 1/2" apart, and I used a tiny drill bit to drill a bunch of little holes in what did serve as the bottom of the aluminum beer can. The foam filter was sandwiched in between the two end pieces.

Screwed the thing in there and it works very well! Takes up less space than the stock original one.

Ha!

Timbone
Timbone

 

[butre]

Poured the rest out? What a waste, Pabst is a good beer.

That's a nice and creative way to do things, and you've got a good excuse to have a beer before you start working. I might do something like that just on that basis.

 

[Purple Haze]

Why're you drinkin PBR in Louisville? Falls City, man, wish I could get it here.

 

[Gobisox]

Dragons Milk, but alas . . . only in bottles. Gotta love the creative mind. Well done!

 

[Timbone]

Gobisox, that old beer we grew up with here AKA "Falls City" is long gone. There's a new craft beer outfit that produces beer under the name of "Falls City" but it is a much different animal from the one in the past.

The PBR can I used was a "Tall Boy" - I just couldn't drink it. About a month ago I had a battle with a bottle of whisky and the whisky won. My alcohol intake has dropped precipitously since.

Took a quick zip down to the supermarket on the moto and the beer can fix is fine. But, I tell you, the engine never ran better than when it was free from the air filter assembly altogether.

My beer can fix is OK but I want to do something a bit cleaner. I think I can do something with a 1 1/2 inch PVC cap - maybe even glue in a few 1/2' PVC elbows to improve airflow. Lowe's doesn't have an appropriate replacement for the air filter I lost, but they sell a bag of generic air filter material for about $5. It would be smart to have a couple on hand in case my beer can falls off - even though I used thread seal!

=Timbone=

 

[wheelbender6]

Yet another great reason to drink beer from a can. They make good muffler end caps too. I have made
a lot of shims with them.

 

[butre]

just put bigger holes in the can

 

[butre]

I've made shims, gaskets, all sorts of good stuff out of cans of PBR

 

[wheelbender6]

PBR has been bought by a Russian beverage company. There goes another one.

 

[butre]

PBR has been bought by a Russian beverage company. There goes another one.

Complete misinformation brought on by sensationalism. What actually happened is a Russian-born American citizen named Eugene Kashper bought Pabst Brewing Company for an American company called TSG Consumer Partners. Kashper used to be chairman of Russian company Oasis Beverages (which formally was seeking to obtain a small nonvoting stake in Pabst Brewing Company) but has since moved on to bigger, better, more American things. Between being born in Russia and formerly having ties to a major Russian beverage company, people assumed he was buying it for a Russian company and that's the information that hit the news first.

Pabst Blue Ribbon always has been and always will be a distinctly American product. Besides that, with the current political climate in Russia, with all the American sanctions over their treatment of Ukraine, what good would introducing such an American product to that market do?

You can't always trust what people tell you, especially when they're being paid to tell it.