Can't scrap an aluminum tank?!?

[Malpaso]

 

[Doppler]

That is one ugly lamp...

 

[akdeepdiver]

I run a hydro shop so I end up collecting condemned tanks when the owners decide that they don't want to pay and abandon them. I make a run to the scrap yard once or twice a year with 30+ tanks at a time. Never had someone question them and I pocket beer money for the next couple months.

 

[lamarpaulski]

My local recycler mine...you ran into an idiot. Aluminum is aluminum.

 

[Malpaso]

That is one ugly lamp...

Thanks, it looked a lot better before I started work on it.

 

[HIGHwing]

Drill a hole, add a fuse, drop a mortar shell in it and voila! July 4th fireworks launcher! Imagination is the key here.

Noted.

 

[Darkforeboding]

Took it to the other place in the next town over and scrapped it, no problems.

DFB

 

[Bob DBF]

... acutally now that I say that, there might be a serial number worked into the code.... but they don't have to know that

There is a serial #, but it's not like you are trying to scrap a car.

Ask the scrap monkey to show you the serial #, see how many times you correct him before he just scraps the tank.



Bob
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There is no problem that can't be solved with a liberal application of sex, tequila, money, duct tape, or high explosives, not necessarily in that order.

 

[Darkforeboding]

There is a serial #, but it's not like you are trying to scrap a car.

Ask the scrap monkey to show you the serial #, see how many times you correct him before he just scraps the tank.



Bob
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There is no problem that can't be solved with a liberal application of sex, tequila, money, duct tape, or high explosives, not necessarily in that order.

Lol! I should have thought of that, Bob it would be entertaining. Maybe I should have just taken the chop saw to it and made it into a pressure pot for testing equipment or pressurized it with 150 psi air and used it to fill car tires. Instead I let the wife take it to the other scrap yard. The guy there explained to her that the take was "different kind of aluminum" than the soda pop cans she was selling to him and gave her less the $5 for the entire tank for scrap.

I'm just glad to be rid of it. I know I could have had it tested and continued to use it but I would have had endless hassle from every scuba shop in the area if I could even talk them into filling it.

DFB

 

[drbill]

Lots of really cool projects to do with a tank.

A student gave me a scuba tank cookie jar.

I hope it was left nearly full size and wasn't cut down so you could keep Pete's hands out of the cookie jar! Tee hee.