Who has experience using 20 litre oil drums and taps?
I bought 20 litres of engine oil from Opie oils as i have several times before, but it’s one 20 litre drum instead of the usual 4 x 5 litres.
They sell a Comma brand tap which looks like the right thing to screw onto the neck of the drum but the website states it fits Comma brand drums. I bought Millers oil. I asked Opie if it would fit and they replied they don’t know!
Someone must have been in this spot before. Any advice?
I used to buy silkolene oils in 20 litre plastic drums. Always found it far easier to bite the bullet at the start and empty into spare 5 litre containers.
I think pumps work for lower volume use like gearbox oil but are a bit of a waste of time with oil change quantities where I would expect just to be pumping it into a 5 litre container anyway.
Well i can certainly do that but there’s the question of how to get the oil poured cleanly. The simple tap Opie sell is this: Comma Drum Tap for 20 & 25 Litre Container Fluid Dispensing and it would do just fine for pouring into a jug, a litre at a time. The only question is whether it’s the right size to screw onto the Millers oils 20 litre plastic drum and much to my surprise Opie didn’t know.
Buy a funnel, man !!
If it is the same drum taps we sell here ? then they can be removed from one lid to another, if the lids are either a different thread or smaller? by simply re cutting a fresh hole in the new lids, and refitting the tap to it and then to the drum, job done takes minutes, but 90% are standard fit and should be a straight swap.
We use on everything here and have done for many many years including on IBC’s.
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M-m
Thanks. I think that’s the solution.
I already have a selection of funnels but experience over the years with oil trays tells me that trying to glug oil out of a 20 litre drum into an empty 5 litre with a funnel in it is just going to end with the 5 litre falling over and oil everywhere.
We save the spent oil in 25 litr drums for the local garages that have oil burner heaters.
M-m
Quick bump to confirm that Comma brand oil drum tap does indeed fit perfectly on the 20 litre drum of Millers oil I got from Opie.
