Kevin wrote:
On Jun 17, 11:45 am, Alex wrote:
I have an oil storage tank for CH, which is in the way of a wall I
intend to build. I intend to move the tank by buying a new doubled
skin variety, siting it with all the pipes etc and then transferring
at a suitable moment. How can I transfer the oil in the old tank to
the new? They will be about 10m apart. I have googled for various
types of pump, but they all seem to be permanent solutions and I only
want a one off

Alex

We've just switched from oil to gas and I gave our old tank to my
Brother-in-law for use as a spare diesel tank on the farm.
It still had around 100Litres of kerosene in it, so he transferred
that to his own fuel tank using 10Litre Jerry Cans under the valve.
Apparently didn't take that long and he was able to keep an eye out
for any sludge that might have been in the bottom, not that there was
that much anyway it seems.

There wont be. The valve is a little above the tank base. When I emptied
my old tank, there was about 150 liters left in the bottom.

We tipped the tank to get most of it out and filtered it through
someone's T-shirt IIRC.

Then left the tank open for a month to vent off the gasses and cut it up
with an angle grinder.