Plastic barrels and old food oils

[Texasmark]

If they come with oils and other things, and if ok for diesel, should be ok for what your talking about, but old oil would not matter if in a steel barrel with some rust anyway, your not going to use it and if anyone else will it has to be treated first.

Steel wont be effected by being in the sun, not sure of the plastic on the barrels if long term in sun etc.

Thanks for the reply. Rust has to do with bottom rusting out. I have them in a barn and sitting on pallets off the ground, no current concern but being steel, the thought does come up from time to time. On plastic storage, it too would be in the barn.

 

[Texasmark]

https://m.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200665175_200665175 or something pretty similar is on my 55 gallon drum. The top of the plastic drum does flex a bit more than I like when manually pumping. Tank & pump have held up fine for 4ish years

I upgraded to a 300 gallon tank on a stand, so gravity does the work there. I still use the 55 gallon drum more than I expected (waiting for fall to fill the tank on the stand with winter blend). I have the 12v small 8gpm GPI pump on my new 36 gallon tank in the back of my truck.

If I had it to do over again I might pay the extra $75 or so for an electric over the manual. The drum head flexing when working the lever & the fact you can't keep an eye down the neck of the fuel tank make it so much nicer to deal with. Easy enough to put some alagator clips on & clamp to the tractor battery if you dont have power.

I started with a manual pump but when my tractors got to 100 hp, I got tired of pumping. So I bought the cheapest TSC 12v I could find and it's been with me for 20 years at least. Change the Goldbond or Goldenrod or whatever the name of the filtering system is at the outlet of the pump....TSC has them too. I didn't check but if you bung hole is 2" pipe like steel 55 gal drums the electric will fit right in.

 

[greggyy]

Thanks for the reply. Rust has to do with bottom rusting out. I have them in a barn and sitting on pallets off the ground, no current concern but being steel, the thought does come up from time to time. On plastic storage, it too would be in the barn.

Unless you have salty or very moist conditions & even then, it would take a long time for it to rust through, it aint gonna happen from inside out if it has oil in it, so when it is empties, just have a look at the bottom if it worries you, but I reckon we will all be dead befor it rusted through if it was in good condition to start with.....

I went too a clearing auction recently, they had some old US army fuel containers, they had obviously started out in the US, prob made there way across Pacific, prob sat on some islands with some nice salty conditions and then ended up somehow sitting on a farm down here....they were not rusted through, but I would not have used them for petrol/gas for a new EFI car Old oil though prob a perfect match to make them last another 50 years or more....

 

[greggyy]

https://m.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200665175_200665175 or something pretty similar is on my 55 gallon drum..

Link is broke, but is prob one of the same things they sell on ebay from China... or Chi...eeee...naaa as your captain says

I am thinking an electric one from ebay.....they are about 70 bucks or so which is 50ish US, they come with a bowser type trigger nozzle and pump etc. The hand ones can be bought for 14 bucks or so

 

[Fallon]

Link is broke, but is prob one of the same things they sell on ebay from China... or Chi...eeee...naaa as your captain says

I am thinking an electric one from ebay.....they are about 70 bucks or so which is 50ish US, they come with a bowser type trigger nozzle and pump etc. The hand ones can be bought for 14 bucks or so

Fill-Rite FR152 Piston Hand Pump with Hose & Nozzle Spout Amazon.com: Fill-Rite FR152 Piston Hand Pump with Hose & Nozzle Spout: Automotive looks reasonably similar to the manual one, although mine is raw aluminum not painted. Might be a GPI

GPI 137100-01, EZ-8 Aluminum Fuel Transfer Pump, 8 GPM, 12-VDC, 0.75-Inch Manual Nozzle, 10-Foot Hose, 15-Foot Power Cord, Adjustable Suction Pipe GPI 1371-1, EZ-8 Aluminum Fuel Transfer Pump, 8 GPM, 12-VDC, .75-Inch Manual Nozzle, 1-Foot Hose, 15-Foot Power Cord, Adjustable Suction Pipe: Industrial Pumps: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific is the new electric. Fine for a 40hp machine, but probably a bit slow for a 100+hp machine you fill a lit.

 

[Diggin It]

OK, jumping in here. I have 2 55 gallon blue plastic barrels. I have no idea what was in them before. There seems to be some conflict in this thread unless I'm reading things wrong. Can I use them to store diesel, or is there an issue with the plastic? I'd only get 20 gallons or so at one time, so I'm not worried about being topheavy during transportation, I just don't want the fuel contaminated.

 

[Texasmark]

OK, jumping in here. I have 2 55 gallon blue plastic barrels. I have no idea what was in them before. There seems to be some conflict in this thread unless I'm reading things wrong. Can I use them to store diesel, or is there an issue with the plastic? I'd only get 20 gallons or so at one time, so I'm not worried about being topheavy during transportation, I just don't want the fuel contaminated.

I'm curious about that too. As I recall I turned mine over when I bought it and it has the triangle with the 2 in it on the bottom of the barrel. I know the triangle with 1 will resist petroleum products, but I'd have to google the question to get the answer for a 2.....you might want to do that.

 

[Diggin It]

^^ Mine is a 2 with HDPE below it.

 

[Diggin It]

I probably knew this, but that's a recycling symbol, not related to the content it will resist.


What Do Recycling Symbols Mean? | Plastics Make It Possible

 

[LouNY]

I have stored gasoline in the blue barrels, same barrel for 8-10 years.
And my kerosene barrel is a blue 55 gal, same barrel for about 20 years.
No problem with it, plow truck I have now is licensed so I can fill it in town now.
And my tractor fuel is in 275 gal tanks, one summer and one winter blended and treated.