Been mulling the idea of posting this here for awhile, finally figured why not.
Any reason not to use an old 20lb propane tank as a fluid dispensing vessel? I ended up with one with the old style valve on it, and I have plenty of good tanks already, thought maybe it would work for any of the various oils we tend to use.
I figured out pretty quickly that the piece they use to vent the tank as they fill it can be removed, and if you put air to that location, will pressurize the tank. Duh.
If one were to adapt a schrader valve to that location (assuming it's NPT), or anything you could clip a tire chuck on, and run a hose from the outlet of the tank with a ball valve, I don't see many downsides.
Only problems I do see are that you can't tell how much fluid you are moving, so engine and tranny fills might be tough, and filling the tank initially might be a bit annoying, but not impossible. It also probably wouldn't move thicker fluids like gear oil very quick when cold, but still much easier than what it comes in. Not to mention for something like gear oil, I wouldn't have boxes of 1 quart bottles stacked up.
I know there are things like pumps and what not you can buy for these purposes, this just seems like a decent use for something that is already laying around, especially if you already have compressed air that is dry.
Any reason not to use an old 20lb propane tank as a fluid dispensing vessel? I ended up with one with the old style valve on it, and I have plenty of good tanks already, thought maybe it would work for any of the various oils we tend to use.
I figured out pretty quickly that the piece they use to vent the tank as they fill it can be removed, and if you put air to that location, will pressurize the tank. Duh.
If one were to adapt a schrader valve to that location (assuming it's NPT), or anything you could clip a tire chuck on, and run a hose from the outlet of the tank with a ball valve, I don't see many downsides.
Only problems I do see are that you can't tell how much fluid you are moving, so engine and tranny fills might be tough, and filling the tank initially might be a bit annoying, but not impossible. It also probably wouldn't move thicker fluids like gear oil very quick when cold, but still much easier than what it comes in. Not to mention for something like gear oil, I wouldn't have boxes of 1 quart bottles stacked up.
I know there are things like pumps and what not you can buy for these purposes, this just seems like a decent use for something that is already laying around, especially if you already have compressed air that is dry.
