DIY water well sediment trap? (light, oil, install, filter)

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Anyone ever build their own sediment trap for a residential water well? I'd like to put a sediment trap on the well servicing my home, the water is extremely clean but I get a slight bit of sand sediment in my toilets and things like that. I don't want to affect the taste nor am I trying to filter anything, I just want to catch the super fine sand that comes up the well.

[jdavid93225]

What you may wish to consider is a "strainer." The ones I've seen (at work, mostly) are an inline fitting with a stainless steel sleeve inside. The sleeve is a screen of a particular mesh size. There are numerous mesh sizes available, so you can pick the best one for your application. You may even wish to have a couple (or more) in series to trap the finer particles.

McMaster-Carr carries them, and has a variety of screens available. You may wish to have one or two extra screens on hand for each strainer you have.

They do need to be cleaned periodically, which is easily done by shutting off the line, removing the screen cover plate, and removing the screen. You then either replace the screen with a clean one, or you clean the one you removed. This is usually done by brushing it off with a wire brush, rinsing it, then putting it back in. Once a clean screen is installed, you put everything back together and turn the water back on.

Here's link to some info on the McMaster Carr website (about halfway down the page):
http://www.mcmaster.com/#about-strainers/=f2zmnl

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I don't think anything at that link would get down small enough to help, those strainers look to be in the 850 micron size on the small end and they get bigger from there.

After doing some reading I found this which looks like it would work.

Rusco Sediment Trapper Water Filter Systems

These look like they are easily drained/cleaned when the sediment builds up.

To me the stainless model would probably work best.

Rusco 1-100STSS-F Stainless Steel Screened Sediment Trapper System

My main line coming off of my well tank is 1", looks pretty easy to install.

[Nighteyes]

I was actually thinking of a considerably larger unit, such as an old hot water heater, with both inlet and outlet on the top. The outlet would contain a fine filter screen, obviously, but most of the work would be done by gravity. Too, the unit could also serve as an emergency water reservoir...

Would this work, y'all?