High pressure filter = Suppressor?

I saw a picture of a guy who made a silencer from a Fram car oil filter and yes he paid the $200 tax stamp to make it. I'd guess its as quiet as some companies silencers. Its worth a try if all you want to spend is 2 Benjamins. I'd make a serialized shroud for it if you have to replace the inners, due to upgrades or baffle strikes, so then you have an eternal toy.

Sure such a thing could be made to work.

The problem is they would get dirty very fast and clog up from powder residue and metal. As they clogged up they would rapidly lose effectiveness.
All of the fine filter would then require a thorough cleaning. Which would also be more of a hassle than a typical silencer design.



The other problem with using unconventional materials is the ATF may then consider such materials "silencer components" when they are possessed by you or intended for use in applications that have nothing to do with silencers.

That could pose a problem because you could then have components you routinely use for non-silencer uses deemed components of a restricted item.
Treated like having a bunch of silencer baffles.

I saw a picture of a guy who made a silencer from a Fram car oil filter and yes he paid the $200 tax stamp to make it. I'd guess its as quiet as some companies silencers. Its worth a try if all you want to spend is 2 Benjamins.

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I had seen those also.. Found it. Down the page with a video of it being used..

http://www.americanspecialtyammo.com/Class_III.html

That's Tom Cole of Cadiz Gun Works. I ordered one of these a while back. Thanks for the reminder. I need to call him......

This idea is similar to silencer technology from 40+ years ago. They didn't work real well compared to what have now.

lol, that's funny.

You sad:
That being said, I've had a thought buzzing around in my head for a while, and wondered what thoughts anyone might have.
Would it be possible to build a suppressor out of high-pressure in-line filters? Either a single filter, with a can fitted around it, or even stack them around each other (small filter inside a larger diameter filter).

I don't think a single filter element would work very well. The purpose of the baffles, screens or what ever you use internally, is to break up the sound/pressure waves and to rapidly cool the powder combustion gasses. With that in mind, it's obvious that you need a lot of material (screens) with a lot of staggered openings, a large surface area and a lot of mass to do that effectively. That why the one old design used a roll of screen and not a simple one turn layer. However if you have access to a lot of different sized screens and can nest enough of them inside each other then that would probably work. But as someone already pointed out, you'd have to disassemble it to clean it periodically.

Let us know how it works

Steel-wool works.

I once knew a guy who talked about putting one of these http://www.ahlbornequipment.com/commerce/product.jsp?prodId=426&catId=655 on his AR15. I don't know if he ever did it.