slim_boy_fat
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30 inch pipe would be the ideal but where do you get 3-4 feet of that diameter pipe?
The North Sea is full of it.
30 inch pipe would be the ideal but where do you get 3-4 feet of that diameter pipe?
.....the bottom is convex, pushing towards the ground, so there is a wobble in it.
you see the red X below, i was thinking of welding a bolt or similar to the underside of that X, then filling the tank with water, and trying to force the floor to become concave.
That way it would sit on its rim and be flat. what think ye?
cmere is there a good way to weld a patch into a water tank? I need to seal this -
its just going to rust really isnt it, around the weld?
is there a good way to weld a patch into a water tank?
heya Hood, the answer to that is no.
so i did a bit of reading about water tables, and so I read, and people were discussing PSI's and so on, etc, blah blah blah
and then a guy chimes in and said, I use a dirty water pump to transfer water from a remote tank to the table and back again, when it needs cleaning.
And i looked at that and thought, thats genius, its so simple, im doing that.
Previously i was building my first pressurised vessel, running it by my dad... 'but dad its 5mm, its not going to explode, there is no risk.....' to which he eventually agreed.
- but this just makes it way simpler.
So the tank will literally be that, a tank full of water, that i can transfer into and out of the table surface. I kinda feel like im making a steel garden pond.
I did some calcs with online apps, and it looks like my table will hold -
390 liters for an 8x4 table 4 inches in depth
and the tank will hold 1389 liters, so nearly a ton weight left in the tank ) that should stabilise it, you would hope.