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super99

super99

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The last place I worked, they switched over to synthetic oil and I was given a nearly full barrel of 80-90wt gear lube. It had sat in a wet corner with feed around it and rusted the bottom enough that it started to leak. I brought it home and turned it upside down so it wouldn't leak. I want to transfer it to another barrel so I can use it. I'm afraid the rust is bad enough if I turn it over it will bust out and loose oil and make a mell of a hess. Any ideas how to get it out? I thought about putting it in the loader bucket and raising it up, put a clean barrel and funnel under it and shooting a hole it it with a 22 short. If I drill a hole, I'll have shavings in the oil. If I try to knock a hole with a chisel, I'll have crap falling into the oil from the inside. Any ideas how to get the oil out and still be usable? Thanks, Chris
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Might be a bit messey and you might need an extra set of hands. Hold it upside-down over another barrel with a funnel in the big hole and remove the small bung(plug) in the rusty barrel. May want to have a small valve handy if you need to stop the flow. Armand
 
Why don't you punch a hole with a chisel in the barrel and pump it out into another barrel. I wouldn't be moving it. Hal
 
Get you a plastic stock/water tank and set it in the tank then do what you want with it. If you drill it put grease on the drill bit this will help hold any metal shavings to the bit and not drop them into the tank. That or use an air hammer and just cut the top out then there won't be any metal particals.

You got it for nothing so what do you have to loose?
Just remember easy come easy go!
 
Putting some ideas from above together, looks like it's on a pallet already.

Could you line up the bug with an opening, then lift up that barrel and pallet with a set of forks on a tractor, blow off the dust and dirt with an air compressor...then remove bung and drain into new container? I'm thinking there must be something like a socket and extension bar you could use to remove the bung while standing to the side so you don't get terribly messy.
 
I don't know where to go to get one but you can use something I call a drum cutter. It's like a giant can opener used to cut the top out of drums, just like a soup can. They come in several different configurations. The one I have has a handle that you just push down to push a blade through the drum lid. There's no filings at all. Jim
 
Here is what I would do. With a sharp large punch I would punch a hole high enough for the oil to drain in a clean pail. Insert a hose in the hole so it will be a snug fit, and let the oil drain down the the hole level. Then the barrel will be light enough to raise it up and punch a hole at the bottom, to remove the remaining oil. The speed the oil will be drained will be determined by the size of your punch, and hose. Have fun. Stan
 
I would drill the hole. If the barrel is in that bad a condition that failure is iminent your probably gonna have a bunch of crap in there, I darn sure would filter that oil before I used it more anything more serious than bar oil.
 
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Some car radio speakers have a magnet with a hole in the center. If you place the magnet on the side of barrel and then drill a hole in the center of the magnet hole it should hold the drillings to the inside wall of the barrel. The bigger the speaker the bigger and stronger the magnet.

Good Luck.
 
Adding to the common sense end of the ideas, use a piece of clear vinyl tubing about1/2"X. 6-7' long and punch the hole in the top. Push all but a few inches of it into the barrel (allow time for the tube to fill with oil) then put a finger over the end and drag out about 1/2 of the length into a new 5 gallon pail. It will be necessary to watch the proceeds to avoid over filling the pail. JimN
 
Allen,
I read your post and photos before the newspater, pictures of naked women and all else. I need for you to get back on here hot and heavy.
 
You could sharpen a small punch, similar to a center punch, but make the point much more pointed, so the point sticks out farther. With that you can easily punch through, especially if you go near the seam on the end of the barrel. then you can either let it run and catch it, or make it the right size to stick a small hose in it to a catch pail or whatever you have to use. Doing it that way you should have no filings to worry about.
 
since there should be a couple inches of airspace any way I would lean it over and block it say on a piece of 2x4 and drill the good part of the side away from the rust near the top, and use hose to siphon it out as mentioned.

I have magnetized drill bits, and screwdrivers on a car battery, if I didn't have access to a magnet, and that works too.

Inside of bottom should have no rust if you just inverted it.
 
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