Pump to transfer oil to new tank and pump for priming system

[JonathanTaylor]

Hi,

Further to my earlier post "Moving oil tank and use of de-aerator", can anyone recommend a cheap pump that I can use to transfer oil from an old metal oil tank to a new plastic tank.

Also, I will need a pump to prime the system, so if it was also capable of being connected to the 10mm pipe and used as a priming pump that would be great. Alternatively can anyone suggest a cheap pump for priming.

Jonathan

 

[MANDATE]

Black and Decker did do a small plastic pump some years ago driven with an electric drill. about £10. I'm fairly sure it is suitable for oil otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. I recall rigging it up on board and using clear plastic hose about 1/2 bore and trying it with water just to see how good the delivery was.
Machine Mart I think do a hand operated pump, but it will be more than £10.
When I replaced my steel tank I drained the oil off into a 10 litre container.
The replacement tank was plastic and placed at ground level which meant the oil level varies from about 1.5 ft to 4.5 ft below boiler pump level.
The pump is capable of drawing well over this.
I fitted a 10mm tee in the delivery pipe about a foot from the tank, I used a short piece of 10mm pipe, followed with a 10mm valve, followed by more 10mm pipe, followed by plastic tube to a small home made tank.
I positioned the tank a 3 to 4 feet higher than boiler pump to eliminate any problem from air lock. I now had a oil supply higher than boiler pump which made starting boiler easy. Once running it was simple to switch back to main oil tank.
That was eleven years ago, still use valve and tube to check oil level with boiler stopped. small tank discarded.

 

[JonathanTaylor]

Thanks. I couldn't find the Black and Decker model but found one made by Clarke fro £12 on the machine mart website, so I'll give that a go.