[Shop-talk] Oil Extractors

[Jimmie Mayfield]

My mower and pressure washer have drain plugs near the (vertical) 
shafts.  It's kind of a pain in the ass to access on the pressure washer 
but it's still less messy than flipping the whole thing upside-down like 
the user manual recommends.

J

On 2020-01-17 21:08, Bob Spidell via Shop-talk wrote:
> Folks,
>
> What do y'all use to suck oil out of small engines?  I've got one of 
> these, but it never worked worth a damn and the tubing got brittle and 
> cracked pretty quickly:
>
> *https://tinyurl.com/uh4p7l6*
>
> The problem with it is no matter how fast I pumped there would never 
> be sufficient vacuum in the canister to move the oil up and out of a 
> sump.  I've got several small displacement engines that need their oil 
> changed regularly--one is a gravel compactor that weighs over 
> 200lbs--and trying to tip the engine enough to drain the oil is a real 
> hassle (and messy).  Anyone know of something that works (I see HF has 
> something similar, but the reviews are mixed and it seems to have the 
> same issues as the 'Topsider').
>
> TIA,
> Bob
>
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