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Richie

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Location: Long Island, New York
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Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Original Message Jan 27, 2005 8:44 am

Hi Fred,

I couldn't find the thread on this list when this subject came up a few days ago, so I thought I'd make a new one. I saw the Mpeg on their website you sent me to and thought it was great. It almost seems too good to be true how well this works. I should have it in my hands in a few days and you can bet I'm going to demo it for myself just as they did in the Mpeg. I think I'll be leaving out all the debris in my test, but will certainly try the "water" trick. Thank you again for recommending it to me

Richie

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Emmo

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #24 Jan 28, 2005 5:13 pm

Richie wrote:

Hey Fred,

This was the strangest thing with this Ebay seller. First, this guy had the fastest shipping I've ever seen. I was on the computer checking the tracking number, and it says it's out at my front door Then I open it up, great packaging by the way, inside was a one page instructions, the guys business card paper clipped to the instructions with $3.00 cash to boot The actual total with shipping I sent them using PayPal was $23.74. I've never heard of a refund like this, but I'm not complaining, just caught off guard. Anyway, great funnel.

We must have bought from the same guy. Yeah, he was super quick and gave me change back from the shipping charges. When was the last time ANY merchant worried about overcharging for shipping and handling??

robmints

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #25 Jan 29, 2005 9:16 pm

I hate these stupid new gas cans.

How do you put pressure on the side of the funnel to keep the can open?

Smitty

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #26 Jan 30, 2005 5:25 pm

I have been using the Briggs & Stratton Smart Fil Gas Can for years and love it, but I have to admit, I was impressed witht the video on Mr Funnel's web page. The Smart Fil can is great because it has a good filter built into it and I absolutely never spill gas when filling my OPE to the top, but I haven't seen anything that will keep out the water and dirt, etc. like the Mr. Funnel appears to do.

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #27 Jan 31, 2005 6:31 pm

Got the funnel today. Pretty quick shipping and the guy even gave me a refund on shipping costs. Had a couple of dollars paper-clipped to the one page instructions along with his business card. Can't beat that!

Tried out the funnel and it works great!

Richie

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #28 Jan 31, 2005 6:43 pm

Patrick,

Try the water test, you won't believe it

Richie

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #29 Jan 31, 2005 9:48 pm

Does the funnel have filters that need to be replaced, or is it like one of those brass coffee filters where you just have to clean it out. (I'm not comparing this product to a coffee filter)

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Highwind

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #30 Jan 31, 2005 10:05 pm

SnowRemover wrote:

The filter is permanently attached. You just clean it out.

Try filling it to the top with water and it will probably pass some. Mine does. But that is beyond what it what designed to do in terms of water pressure on the filter membrane.

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Richie

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Re: Purchased Mr. Funnel F3CN
Reply #31 Jan 31, 2005 10:20 pm

It has a teflon coated stainless filter. It filters down to 74 microns. I don't know how small that is, but considering it won't allow water to pass unless under pressure, I'd say it's a very fine filter.

HighWind, make sure it doesn't pass water at 1/3 full. Bill said if it passes that test, its perfect. He has only seen one bad one that was damaged during shipping in all the time he's been selling them. I would expect it to leak some filling it to the top. I suppose that is good to know, I would imagine I should pour fuel into it slowly so not to allow the free water to pass through the filter. Maybe that is what the recessed cup area is for. Any water would or should end up down in that area anyway.

Richie

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