I will bow to more experienced folks. I don't have a $2 oil sucker or a
car that it would work on so I have not used one.
I have a $150 sucker that uses the air compressor to create a vaccum in
a tank that is then used to withdraw oil but it is for the boat.
Would not have to worry about it as the compressor is not connected to
it when it is working.
Randy
On 12/09/2012 11:15 AM, Michael Canfield wrote:
I would be very worried about using a shop vac......run car til almost out
of fuel first so what is left can be caught in a large drain pan when you
pull off the hose. It is still running and doesn't stumble at highway
speed so I am betting the fuel strainer will let all of the fuel out when
you unhook the hose.
Another option is a long piece of fuel line into a can beside the car.
Unhook stock line, slip long one in its place and swap fuel cans as they
get full.
Mike
On Sep 12, 2012 12:07 PM, "Rich Thomas" <
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote:
The question regarded the $2 sucker, which is (at least for mine) powered
by a shop vac. The extraction fumes go through the vac, and that would be
a bit of concern, to me at least. But YMMV.
I recall my boss when I worked at the FBO summers, telling me about an
experience when he was flying helos in VN. Some crew chief ASSerted that
the turbine fuel could not explode so that the usual grounding practices
when refueling were not necessary, and my boss took exception to that
ASSertion. A coupla days later a helo exploded when the refueler stuck the
nozzle in without previously grounding things, killing the refueler and
destroying gummint property. The moral was that being safe took little
effort, and it was, well, safe.
--R
On 9/12/12 11:13 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:
Uh, no. Sparks and such from the sucker (if electric-powered) might not
play nice with diesel fuel. One of those cheap hand-powered siphon pumps
would be fine.
AC vacuum pumps (Robinaire, etc.) don't spark. Actual piston/diapragm
vacum pumps don't spark. Only a shop-vac vacuum source sparks.
-- Jim
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