I used these sorts of pumps when I worked at a food plant.. its a air powered piston pump, they pump almost anything that is semi liquid we even pumped honey and molasses at room temp with them, its all about how much air pressure you have, the more pressure the thicker stuff it will pump and or faster. But you'll need a air source of some sort. We had a large one (about 3'x3'x3') and it filled a 80,000 lbs tanker truck with soy milk concentrate in a couple hours.

Here is a link of what they are like, this one is foot opprated, the air opperated ones look like this, they use the same pinciple to pump:
http://www.iboats.com/Whale_Gusher_Galley_Mk3_Foot_Oper...93975--view_id.48265

Jason

Thats an interesting pump, I wonder if it would work with VO? 4.3 gpm is a decent flow for a foot powered pump.

i have been using a 1/2" diaphram pump made by aro for a couple of years. i use it in transferring, filtering and fueling. they are great. of course an air compressor is necessary.

they will pump anything that will flow. they draw a good vacuum also. they will suck the dregs from the bottom of drum- food chunks and all.

make sure it doesn't have rubber or buna n seals. viton, nylon or nitril work great.

well worth the price-if you have air!

pat

Those pumps we used in the food plant could pump almost anything, even gritty sandy sludge from the sand pits in the loading bay..

This foot pump looks pretty cool, its the same thing just powered by foot power.. probably can pump anything you can find in a grease dumpster unless there throwing shortening out and it solidifies. Im also sure you could rig uit up at waist height and use hand power.

LOL. I can see it now.

VEG OIL FITNESS CENTER. Two pumps side by side are the fitness step maching

That's hilarious, funny thing is I do video and web design work for a lady that has a fitness company and has her own line of equipment, she has images of her and her equipment that look like that photo.

Maybe I should suggest it to her to expand her customer base

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That's hilarious, funny thing is I do video and web design work ...

Contact me at coachgeo@hotmail.com. I am looking for someone to design a website business for me that would be extremely video based.

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I have been looking for an air operated pump for refuelling from cubies on the road, so far have only found large and expensive models of the type used in garages to pump oil into cars from large drums. BTW that whale foot operated pump is a diaphram pump, not the same as a piston pump nor is it an air pump.
johnno

Sorry coachgeo, I have more work than I know what to do with already.. I can't take on another client right now.

Not to mention the SVO conversion , new baby in the house, remolding our camper.. the list goes on and on..

Jason

I use a pneumatic double bellows piston pump for filtering. Awesome. regulate pressure by changing air pressure. Sucks up any thickness VO.

look in graingers catalog. they are readily available from many manufacturers- any size you want. where would you get the compressed air when traveling?

the flow jet pumps are 12v and work well in this application. they also will suck a vacuum. they are not as tolerant of chuncks.

pat

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Originally posted by Johnno:
I have been looking for an air operated pump for refuelling from cubies on the road, so far have only found large and expensive models of the type used in garages to pump oil into cars from large drums. BTW that whale foot operated pump is a diaphram pump, not the same as a piston pump nor is it an air pump.
johnno