Hi,
I bought a "fuel transfer siphon" from that auction site. It's 12mm tube with a squeezy black bulb in the middle. There were people selling ones by Draper and others by Laser. One seller claimed that the Draper was better than the laser but I didn't think there could be much difference between the two, so I bought the cheaper, laser, one. I was hoping to use it for odd jobs draining fluids.
I bought the one with 12mm bore because I thought that the smaller bores would have a tiny flow and take too long to be useful.
I think this one is about to go in the bin because it is useless. I bought a 25L drum of oil from costco and thought I would try the siphon to draw off 4L but in the end I gave up and poured it out. Was I being daft? Is there something I don't know about oil that prevents it from being siphoned (too viscous?) or is it just that these siphons are useless? The bulbs just don't seem to suck very well.
Is the laser one badly make or are they all just as useless as each other? I'm off to get a drill powered pump. Perhaps two: one for oil and one for aqueous use.
TIA