Rannsachair
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ebay buy second hand, they are quite pricey, Zoro, Opie oils, demon tweaks and quite a few others stock them.
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I have a small stainless steel Coke keg 19L with an oval loading port. Connection fittings are not standard (for beer), so I converted them to standard 8 mm pneumatic connections. I displace any liquids with air pressure. But you need a pressure regulator.
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Yes, pressure regulator, pressure relief valve, non return valve, a valve to release pressure when I'm finished filling (the pressure relief valve could do that) and possible even a remote inlet valve.
These things can get out of hand very quickly.
It's a nice project, but do I need another project?
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Dont forget the dipstick or a sightglass, its a pain getting halfway through a fill and running out.
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Bought one from lidl, went to change the diff oil on my landrover. As soon as the oil hit the pump it died. Refunded. I now use this:
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Your scheme is overly complicated, with unnecessary bells and whistles. I have a removable pressure regulator, universal application. With it, I displace oil from 200 liter drums, at a pressure of 0.5 bar. The keg is designed for pressure above 9 bar from memory. I use 5 bar max.
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Out of all the suggestions, this was the one that, initially, seemed favorable...
It's a pity they're crazy expensive.
Best prices I've found are about £90 for the pump bit and £30 each for the cap and bottle.
£50 I could probably con myself into, given enough time, but £150 is probably pushing it : (
"Reassuringly expensive" - or something like that!
I'll probably spend 3 weeks and £70 making some diy contraption instead.... : /
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I came to the same conclusion on the new price, though watched ebay, gumtree etc until one came up.
I decided if it did not work I could still buy what was needed to sort it. I was lucky picked up a good one for about £60 including postage: pump, cap and container.
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I have one of these, in cold weather it helps to warm the oil,
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Two elbows and a bit of clear pneumatic pipe. One at the top one at the bottom pipe between
I have to top up awkward stuff quite often so I have two of these cheap hand cranked pumps, one for hvb46 hydraulic oil and the second set up with ep90 gear oil and both clearly marked with "artistic" daubings of their grades in black paint. You can see oil level because they are translucent and I tend to use either the hook shaped adapter or the clear tube one. Everything I own uses different grades of engine oil and you can tip that in from the top easy so I haven't bothered getting one for engine oil. They are masses easier to pump ep90 than a syringe type because they have a decent length pump lever. I put a funnel in where the relief valve top is, and refill up through that. There's graduations on the side so you can get a rough idea of quantity you pump in etc.
Or if you want air driven, there's a mass of pneumatic ones too, I never bothered with these. I prefer to having to pump a hand lever than mess round with hoses and letting the compressor fill its tank just to top something off.
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Or if you want air driven, there's a mass of pneumatic ones too, I never bothered with these. I prefer to having to pump a hand lever than mess round with hoses and letting the compressor fill its tank just to top something off.
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My LIDL pump handles ATF and 20W50 with ease. HY80/90 I haven't tried because I have drain cocks.
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So, i mentioned this to a friend, and, to my surprise, he said "ive got one of those".
And then followed up by "i managed to break it with ep90"
I dont know the details of the incident, but it seems that the thread has been stripped, but i cant work out which thread.
This one looks ok -
But then so does this one -
And there is no split in the ring (im assuming that the ring is supposed to spin independently of the rest of the pump?)
Here is a "micro" vid of the issue -
The pump "unit" just pushes on and pulls off with ease.
Ive already dribbled EP90 from the car to the front door....
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Threads do not look bad, worth trying ptfe tape?
A new lid not that dear, though may not be the fault: https://oilspillproducts.co.uk/products/oil-safe-utility-lid?variant=35476655568
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Thank you.
I don't mind buying a lid for it (it's not mine, but he's the type of friend that helps me out a lot, so I don't mind paying a few quid to "fix" tools that I'd be able to use anyway!) but my fear was just shooting the parts cannon may not hit the bit needed, and each shot isn't pocket change.
I mailed the UK agent already to see if they could say anything.
I asked my friend if he still had the "cap" (for if you removed the pump and wanted to seal the jug) but that seems to be long gone. I figured that would test where the thread had failed, to some extent.
I considered ptfe, but I don't think it would work. It probably would a bit but I thought it would probably just squidge over the worn threads?
I was going to see if I had a large t-bolt (jubilee clip) sort of thing that I could use to compress the whole ring, but I'm not convinced that will work either, as the ring isn't actually split, so I'm not sure that it would compress at all. I figured I'd try anyway.
But I'll also see what the agent says. The item is relatively unused and you would imagine a higher end tool to survive a bit longer. Ep90 is within the viscosity spec, so far as I can tell, and the pump doesn't seem to need much force to pump it around at the moment (that's what's in it currently) but I guess it may have been winter when it broke.
