IMCA38
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- SE Nebraska
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I stopped by my local farm/home store today to pick up some supplies. (I won't reveal the name to protect the potentially guilty!)
They had some clearance stuff sitting outside, including a 50 gallon diesel storage tank for $50! This tank looked new except there was some diesel residue around the filler cap. I went inside and the same tank was $189, so I'm thinking why is the one outside so cheap?
I asked the clerk and he said the one outside had a leak, but if someone was a good welder, it would be a piece of cake to fix it. I went back out and sure enough, I turned it around and about half way up on one edge was a circle in magic marker with "leak" by it and an arrow pointing to the circle. It looked like that edge got bumped into something during shipping. This vertical edge was fully welded to start with. I assume they make the tank by pressing two rectangles into "C"'s and sliding them together and welding the edges. I agree that the simple act of welding this would be simple enough, but since the tank has had diesel in it, I wonder about the potential "BOOM" factor if you try to weld it. Honestly, I wondered about the sanity of the store trying to sell the tank if someone did hurt themselves trying to fix it.
Any thoughts?
They had some clearance stuff sitting outside, including a 50 gallon diesel storage tank for $50! This tank looked new except there was some diesel residue around the filler cap. I went inside and the same tank was $189, so I'm thinking why is the one outside so cheap?
I asked the clerk and he said the one outside had a leak, but if someone was a good welder, it would be a piece of cake to fix it. I went back out and sure enough, I turned it around and about half way up on one edge was a circle in magic marker with "leak" by it and an arrow pointing to the circle. It looked like that edge got bumped into something during shipping. This vertical edge was fully welded to start with. I assume they make the tank by pressing two rectangles into "C"'s and sliding them together and welding the edges. I agree that the simple act of welding this would be simple enough, but since the tank has had diesel in it, I wonder about the potential "BOOM" factor if you try to weld it. Honestly, I wondered about the sanity of the store trying to sell the tank if someone did hurt themselves trying to fix it.
Any thoughts?
