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What is the best way of removing 2" of water from an oil storage tank, without draining 500 litres of oil and cleaning the tank?
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It is the lift height from the oil to the top of the tank/hose that is the problem. It would be easy to start it syphoning if tank was full of oil. My tip with starting syphoning is to fill the hose with water first from outside tap. This way no risk of oil in your mouth! Do as SimonG said, use a couple metres copper on one end of hose into tank & get the other end as low as possible.I tried that but couldn't suck hard enough, unless the copper was too close to bottom and I couldn't suck. I will try again, thanks for the reply.
Will this not wreck your transfer pump eventually? I have one, but try to use it on clean oil if possible & just use the hose & copper pipe syphon method.I have found this to be quite a problem this year and the only practical way of getting it out is with a mechanical pump. I have made myself a rig using my oil transfer pump. ....
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