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CurlyDave
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The glass lining on most water tanks is cracked and broken during manufacture, which is the reason for a sacrificial anode in hot water tanks.
You do not want shards of broken glass in your hydraulic system. Get a metal tank without the glass lining.
You do not want shards of broken glass in your hydraulic system. Get a metal tank without the glass lining.
kennyd
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How would you weld a bung to a glass lined tank?
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David Devuono
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I know water tanks are supposed to be glass lined but I have to wonder, whats more nasty, glass in you hydraulics or glass in your cup of tea? I would go with the water tank, weld on a NPT bung large enough to use a suction filter, this should prevent the glass from getting into the system if there really is glass rattling around in there. You will probably have lots of rust to clean out. You could have four holes in your tank for water, electric heater and pressure relief. You will need an outlet positioned near the bottom and an inlet about 2/3rds up. Without a baffle, I would mount the inlet perpendicular and as far away from the outlet as possible. Also you could consider an old air tank? I used this one to make a gas tank yesterday for my tracked dumper project.
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Toyboy
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As I understand it, glass lined is not glass as in a window, but porcelain coated like on the older cookware.
LD1
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So........what is the project and what is it going on???
Aside from what others have said, I would also worry about impact. Loke in a logsplitter and dropping a peice of wood on it and cracking/breaking the glass inside.
And if it already has fittings on it to use, what about mounting it. Are you possibly going to need to weld on it for that???
And if you are untertaking a project, I will assume you can weld. So why not just make one. You only need 1.33 cu ft OR 2304 cu in to be at 10 gallons. A 14" cube would put you a little over 10 gallons. and enough 16ga steel to do that would be cheap.
Aside from what others have said, I would also worry about impact. Loke in a logsplitter and dropping a peice of wood on it and cracking/breaking the glass inside.
And if it already has fittings on it to use, what about mounting it. Are you possibly going to need to weld on it for that???
And if you are untertaking a project, I will assume you can weld. So why not just make one. You only need 1.33 cu ft OR 2304 cu in to be at 10 gallons. A 14" cube would put you a little over 10 gallons. and enough 16ga steel to do that would be cheap.
