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Rotaries are better/easier. The lamentation I hear from the manual guys is that it takes a tiring half hour to tank up. For cache fuel, one would work just fine. You likely won't be in any hurry to fuel up in a dystopic future. They're tagged at 10gpm, but only if you're 6'4" and athletic buff. Buy two, they're cheap. In a dystopic future, two is one and one is zero. Or buy 4 and sell the other two for food.

You'll double your investment cost if you go with an electric. Northern and HFT both have them, $99 and $129 respectively. I'm optimistic and would trust either.

Absolutely. The cheapies come in the kits, or buy a really good one with water separator. I put a nice Racor on the diesel tow truck for an employer a couple decades ago.

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or similar. They do separate the water in bad fuel, too, which you might be receiving for that price. Be safe.

Get backup bung wrenches, too.

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Larry Jaques
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Don't know... but think I'd start by looking at pumps & pump info on the McMaster Carr website.

Erik

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Erik

I scored 250 gallons of diesel for $.50 per gallon from a friend who was getting out of the trucking business.

Fresh fuel straight out of the trucks. I didn't ask any questions, and he didn't volunteer a lot of information. Anyhoo, I got five 55 gal barrels sitting on pallets that I now need to pump into my Dodge as needed.

What kind of pump do I need? I probably would need it in the future for special times, but don't want to spend a lot. Would one of the push/pull kinds be okay? What kind of electrical would do it without getting a cheapie and burning it up? Would an in-line filter be a good idea?

What to look for? Caveats? Suggestions?

Steve

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SteveB

GoldenRod filter

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clare

Yes, get a push/pull (or rotary) pump and be happy. It is not a lot of fuel and you only need so much at a time.

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Ignoramus25661

To add to this: we pump a lot of oil and fuel. Pump diesel fuel out of trucks we sell, pump oil out of vehicles and machines, etc etc etc.

90% of time we use a pneumatic membrane pump that we have. i
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Ignoramus25661

Syphon into gerry cans or 20L drums & then pour via a funnel into your vehicle?

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Glenn B

I use a manual rotary pump to pump hydraulic oil into a 5 gal pail. It takes less than a minute to fill it up.

John

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John

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Yeah, that'd do quite nicely on the outlet of the pump. And just $40.

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Larry Jaques

We always had goldenrods on the tanks on the farm.

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clare

Only that most of the aircraft guys use Northern Supply for fuel transfer equipment.

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Jim Stewart

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