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Does Your Oil or Kerosene Fill Pipe Look Like This ?
Typical 2" steel fill pipe with steel cap
Rusty steel pipe and 2" steel cap.
In the winter, steel caps sometimes freeze (seize) to the pipe and the oil delivery person has to remove the cap with a pipe
wrench.
Sometimes the cap is cross threaded when put back on the pipe
This fill pipe has damaged threads from rust and repeatedly removing and
replacing the steel cap with every fill.
Damaged or missing threads are not good when a Scully adapter is temporarily threaded on to assist when filling your tank.
Oil tends to seep past damaged threads
The 1st step in improving your fill pipe for a safer oil fill is to remove
rust with wire brush, or in this case the verticle pipe is replaced.
Plumbers sealer is applied to pipe threads
Aluminum Scully adapter. Available in 45 degree angle type as shown or straight
type.
Scully adapter threads onto verticle pipe.
Tightened with Channel lock wrench
Until opening faces away from siding and completly tight
Excess Sealer wiped off outside
And inside of pipe
Scully adapters allow your Oil or Kerosene delivery person to easily attach
the fill nozzle to the adapter with a positive O-ring seal.
The matching Aluminum cap threads onto the same threads as the fill nozzle
from the oil truck.
A permanently installed Scully adapter is the surest, most reliable protection against oil spills during oil delivery. Even
if your fill pipe doesn't have a Scully attached your oil / Kerosene delivery is probably assisted with a Scully adapter that
is threaded onto the 2" steel fill pipe, then removed after the tank is filled - ask your delivery person.
Cap can be tethered to the scully with stainlesss steel cable and cable stops
(ferrules)
So your oil cap is never lost in the snow
The Aluminum cap will not seize to the aluminum scully adapter in freezing
cold temperatures, and of course...no more rust.
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