How much better are hot dip tanks than triple sprayed and epoxied

[Ares1590]

With the discontinuation of faber hot dip tanks, they are becoming very hard if not impossible to come by (especially where I live where scuba and steel tanks are not common), I am curious if they are worth the price bump over spray galvanized and painted steel tanks.

I can get new painted steel around $330 for a LP85 but for a hot dip LP85 it is about $410-420.

I’m not familiar enough with steel tank types to know if that price difference is worth the benefits of hot dip or not.

 

[lexvil]

Hot dip will get ugly with use but will stay that ugly forever, painted will get ugly over time but you can repaint them. One thing I liked about white painted LP 85’s is when they get mistaken for AL 80’s and get pumped up to 3200 psi.