2017 - Volume #BFS, Issue #17, Page #79
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Portable Transfer Pumps For Waste Oil, Diesel Fuel
If you’re looking for a lower cost, easy way to transfer oil or diesel fuel, Steve Chastain might have what you need. Frustrated by the lack of good pumps on the market, Chastain started making his own gear pumps using both off-the-shelf components and parts he cast himself. He sells them through his company, U.S. Filtermaxx.“We’ve dealt with waste oil for years, first using it as fuel for our foundry,” says Chastain. “We used hand-crank pumps and vacuum pumps with compressors, which work well, but are not handy to carry around.”
Chastain has been featured in FARM SHOW multiple times for his homemade iron smelting furnace, piston and parts casting, and most recently for his oil and fuel cleaning centrifuge (Vol. 38, No. 5).
“At first we came up with a small electric-powered transfer pump, but sometimes the used oil was in a remote place, so we went to gas motor-powered pumps,” says Chastain. “As we got into supplying the filtration business, we got into bigger pumps. These are all for use with oil, diesel fuel, and other self-lubricating liquids, not with water or gas.”
Chastain now offers his pumps with filtration systems. He says the pumps range from 10 gpm to 150 gpm. Prices range from $500 to $2,500. “Our most popular pump is a 24-gal. model that weighs 42 lbs. and comes with a 3 hp gas engine,” says Chastain. “It’s priced at about $500.”
He says he will build to suit a customer’s needs. As Chastain notes, “When you have a foundry and a machine shop, you can do a lot of things others can’t.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, U.S. Filtermaxx, 2925 Mandarin Meadows Dr., Jacksonville, Fla. 32223 (ph 904 334-2838; steve.chastain@usfiltermaxx.com; www.usfiltermaxx.com).
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