Found this neat oil pump at a used store. Was looking for records when I saw it.  Found some O rings that should drive it, motor seems shot. All metal, except for the big  wood base. Wonder if a solar cell and motor would drive it?  Would run during the day, then off at night.

 

That is a neat oil pump.   I bought a oil pump at Marty's.  Don't know what I am going to do with it in the desert.

 

Mabey put it next to a old water tank as a  water pump from the days of steam. 

Hey Jerry

Your Pic's might inspire someone to build one from scrach.   Wouldn't be too hard.

1st paycheck I ever got, $18.75 (in 1962), I took to Graham Electronics in Indianapolis, IN and bought a Simpson Multimeter (VOM is what we called them back then, although my Dad called it a "VoltOhmist"). It WAS a great meter for $18.75. I used it for nearly 45 years, never a problem, always accurate. Only thing I ever had to do to it was replace the Ohm meter battery ("C"-cell) once every 4 to 8 years.

A couple of years ago, my Son-in-law requested help figuring out how to install a GFCI outlet in the kitchen in the house they were renting... the wiring was really old and had 4 same color wires coming into the outlet box and he lost track of which went where on the old socket he had just removed.

 

I brought my trusty Simpson and did some quick measurements and it was just plain weird.  The fuse was pulled so I was using the Ohm meter. Three of the wires seemed to be shorted together. I tried a different outlet and got the same thing. 

 

What was that Red Green said about calling your Father-in-law and what "he" (i.i.: me) would do to a project!

 

Went to another outlet and KABOOM! 

The needle is now the shape of a question mark ("?") and the innards of the rest of it are a chared mass.   The po' lil' o' fuse is even worse. 

That outlet was on a different fuse circuit and I had just put the meter leads across 120V.  

 

     

 

Does said Son-in-law get to buy new meter. Being said you still can get good ones on eBay from time to time. Just sold one!!!!
Toad 

I got some O rings and got the oil pump going. I lubed it good also. Made a cover for the electric motor, the vent on top should help get out some of the heat. Plan to have a battery inside the oil tank I plan to make out of a cdR stack cover. Will run it when I'm out, next spring.