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I'd suggest that anyone buying a 25 litre tub of oil get the tap from LubeTech too.
I thought I'd manage without, but having struggled to fill my 1 litre topup bottle from the big drum I realised my mistake!
To save carriage on re-ordering the Lubetech part, I got a tap from eBay. It fits, but the threaded portion of the drum isn't long enough for the tap to seal. The fix was easy, once I'd cleaned the large spill off the garage floor :unsure: , by hacksawing off the flange from my tap:
The drum now meets the tap gasket and works perfectly. In hindsight, buying the right thing would have saved a fair bit of mess :blush:
I thought I'd manage without, but having struggled to fill my 1 litre topup bottle from the big drum I realised my mistake!
To save carriage on re-ordering the Lubetech part, I got a tap from eBay. It fits, but the threaded portion of the drum isn't long enough for the tap to seal. The fix was easy, once I'd cleaned the large spill off the garage floor :unsure: , by hacksawing off the flange from my tap:
The drum now meets the tap gasket and works perfectly. In hindsight, buying the right thing would have saved a fair bit of mess :blush: