We had some tanks filled at a local shop recently. When I picked them up, I noticed that every set had deep gouge/scratch marks along the bottom, going through the hot-dip galvanize layer all the way to the bare metal (on both front and back of the bottom crown, the picture below only shows the back). If you run your finger across the area, you can feel the gouges. It's pretty obvious that someone, instead of lifting the tanks off the floor, pulled them along by the manifold and dragged them across the floor to wherever they were going:
I do see a lot of older steel doubles with brown rust "skidmarks" running down the bottom (sorry for that mental image), but I always assumed it happened over time from multiple instances of setting the tanks down and laying them flat. It never occurred to me that someone would drag them around like a cavewoman by the hair.
I'm marginally upset with this treatment (obviously enough to make a post about it)--seems like unnecessary treatment that can shorten the life of the tank--if I can feel the gouges after one instance, what'll it be like after 100? However, my buddies don't really seem to mind. So I beseech the Internets-is this at all typical? Am I being overly sensitive towards a big 80lb chunk of metal?
I do see a lot of older steel doubles with brown rust "skidmarks" running down the bottom (sorry for that mental image), but I always assumed it happened over time from multiple instances of setting the tanks down and laying them flat. It never occurred to me that someone would drag them around like a cavewoman by the hair.
I'm marginally upset with this treatment (obviously enough to make a post about it)--seems like unnecessary treatment that can shorten the life of the tank--if I can feel the gouges after one instance, what'll it be like after 100? However, my buddies don't really seem to mind. So I beseech the Internets-is this at all typical? Am I being overly sensitive towards a big 80lb chunk of metal?