Talk:Oil Fabricator/@comment-62.61.166.64-20120723063659/@comment-65.35.218.118-20120729180923

Actually, automatic filling of oil buckets should be easy with the help of RedPower machines:

Place a tank, and fill it with oil using whatever means you wish. Then place a Deployer next to the tank, and make sure its front is facing the tank. Then use a combination of Transposers, Pneumatic Tube, containers/machines, and RedPower wiring to create a circuitous oil-filling device. How about an example?

Given a recurring redstone pulse, such a setup could do the following:

(1) Transposer A takes an empty bucket and sends it down the tube to the deployer; (2) the deployer, now containing an empty bucket, "deploys" the empty bucket onto the tank, filling it with oil; (3) transposer B removes the filled bucket from the deployer and sends it to whatever destination you desire, probably some machine; (4) the filled oil bucket is emptied; (5) repeat from step 1, with transposer A removing the empty bucket and sending it back toward the deployer.

In this example, one or two actual buckets will provide a steady supply of oil buckets to whatever requires them, provided there is enough oil in the tank to keep filling them up.

Hope this helps!