about 8 years of ignorance ended yesterday.........

Ice cream cone on the forehead retarded and I'm big enough to share it too........

Have 4 1000 liter heating oil tanks. All connected together for fill and use.
Installed them myself when I put in the heater 8 or so years ago. Kit came with fill set and heater supply lines. Got the filler pipes all together and ran thru the wall. Supply lines were missing a fitting so could only hook up two tanks and plugged the end where the 3rd and 4th tanks would be hooked up. Got the fitting was only part of the kit so connected the 3rd/4th together and used copper supply line to connect #2 to #3. Heater kept cutting off for awhile and then just wouldn't work. Disconnect 2/3 and plug the line and everything was fine.... 8 years (and a couple of drills and pumps) of transferring oil from 3&4 to 1&2.. Yesterday after oil was delivered I was fooling around in the tank area and putting out rat/mouse poison for winter and noticed that the end of the supply line on #4 wasn't plugged. Moved the plug from 2 to there, connected 2&3 and tried again...... Shazam!!!!

Had just made fun of the wife for installing printer cartridges without taking off the tape first..Don't know if I'll tell her this story or not :roll:

Yea, once you get it into your head that something is "right" it's natural to look for the problem somewhere else...

Dave years ago when I did things like that my dad, with great glee would say "check, check and recheck again"!

Rick

Many have walked for miles with fuel in the reserve
tank, and the switch only part way turned, or not at
all! We all make believe we are under control of
our surroundings, but it is probably just an opinion
in most cases. Jim

(quoted from post at 18:57:47 11/12/11) Many have walked for miles with fuel in the reserve
tank, and the switch only part way turned, or not at
all! We all make believe we are under control of
our surroundings, but it is probably just an opinion
in most cases. Jim

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And for John Denver not getting the tank switched in time proved fatal.

I went to a friends house today he was mad said a hyd I gave him wasn't any good. he had installed it on a logspliter. started the engine and it had blown a "O" ring . Come to find it out he had used a valve that someone else had givin him " it was a closed center valve. I told him to get a open center and it would work. He then asked me if I was going to give him one. You know the answer to that question. So your not the only one that over looks things.

You have been ignorant a lot longer than 8 years!