I have a quarry set up, and it has encountered a rather large pool of lava. I can collect it and use it with cells, but that would be a waste of my time. Is there a machine I can use to collect it? I have looked into the IndustrialCraft and RedPower pumps, but none of them seem to have what I'm looking for. What can I use to pump large lakes of lava?
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Instead of attaching the engines directly to the quarry, use conductive pipes to pipe engine energy into the quarry. I have a VERY nice setup using plain steam engines powered by coal from a self feeding glowstone dust generating system using equivalent exchange.
You put a wooden conductive pipe above the steam engine with the engine pointed up, then use stone conductive (or gold) pipes to pipe the energy into the quarry. By piping the energy off the engines, you will never run the risk of them overheating if you're using steam engines, and if your combustion engines have water then they'll be fine too.
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Best Answer
In addition to using the various pumps from IndustrialCraft, RedPower, and BuildCraft, what I usually do in my quarries is place a water source block in one of the top layers that are mined out.
As the quarry keeps mining the water will fill the entire surface of quarry and will instantly transform any lava to obsidian, which can be mined out without problem, and when the quarry is done you can remove the water with a single bucket.
If the quarry has already mined far down and is stuck on the lava putting a source block in the center of the lava (or multiple blocks in multiple places if it's a really big lava source) will also do the trick rather fast.