How do I get lube or crude into barrels?

[Tungsten Whitmarsh Cadow]

I tried running a pipe of crude to a blue assembler but the pipe doesn't reach. There is a gap. I have empty barrels and I want to transport lube by rail rather than pipes so I'd like to know how to get fluids into barrels.

[bobSheep]

You have to select the recipe in the assembler first then rotate it accordingly.
I think it works only for crude oil tho.

[Tungsten Whitmarsh Cadow]

I can't do that. The pipe does not reach the assembler. The gap is only about a third the length of a normal pipe so normal pipe doesn't fit. Somehow this worked yesterday. I filled several barrels.

[Tungsten Whitmarsh Cadow]

I see what you're saying now. You have to rotate after you choose the recipe. That's kind of odd but its the way it works. Now I have extracted the oil from the barrells and the oil is in my assembler. Its not going through the pipe to the refinery. How do I get it to my refinery so that I can process it into lubricant?

Oh nevermind, the crude started moving once I added an ingredient where I'm making electric motors. Crude to brown to lube and then pumped into the electric motor machine. All this was to make a small pump that it turns out I no longer need :(

I had at one point thought that my fluids weren't moving because they needed to be pumped but actually then needed to be used. Ah well, at least I learned a few things along the way.

[GB.Neptun]

Originally posted by bobSheep:

You have to select the recipe in the assembler first then rotate it accordingly.
I think it works only for crude oil tho.

Thank you! This also works for gas. :D