I am about to cut up about two dozen condemned aluminum tanks for scrap. I am chopping the crowns off for both lamps and for training aids. A friend wanted a couple cylinders to have the bottoms cut off about 4 inches up to use as dog bowls. If anyone else wants some, let me know and I will sell them for $15 plus shipping. Makes a great heavy duty dog food bowl, candy dish, ect. Just PM me if you want one.
Scuba Tank Dog Bowls
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Brian Pasic
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id love to see pix, (dogs included) lol ... sounds cool
Scared Silly
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I am not sure I would not be using an old Aluminum cylinder for a dog bowl or other food unless is has been anodized.
tadawson
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Anodized . . . exactly like most AL cookware isn't, and there is no risk there . . . . And keep in mind, most dogfood is dry, so no liquid to react either . . .
- Tim
- Tim
Scared Silly
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You have obviously never seen a dog eating 
. Slobbering over their food after getting a drink of water and then licking their bowl clean. Lots of liquid even if it started of dry. Of course our dog liked a little warm water with her dry food, nothing like a little gravy. Also most aluminum cookware today is polished, though I do have some old pots that are not. Though I do not use them anymore, not because of health issues (there are none), but more of the PITA factor for cleaning. A cylinder is the same, nothing more than a cast billet that has been extruded and annealed. So IMHO is is a PITA factor as well.
. Slobbering over their food after getting a drink of water and then licking their bowl clean. Lots of liquid even if it started of dry. Of course our dog liked a little warm water with her dry food, nothing like a little gravy. Also most aluminum cookware today is polished, though I do have some old pots that are not. Though I do not use them anymore, not because of health issues (there are none), but more of the PITA factor for cleaning. A cylinder is the same, nothing more than a cast billet that has been extruded and annealed. So IMHO is is a PITA factor as well.
tadawson
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I have 5 dogs, so pretty much know how a dog eats, and none come close to boiling food in an aluminum pot, so I am not concerned. My parents cookware is still all cast aluminum, and good to go as ever, and I have some as well. The initial reports reporting issues have, I believe, also been recanted as false . . .
I see this as yet another "chicken little - the sky is falling" kind of concern. IE, much ado about nothing . . .
A pain to clean, that I can relate to!
- Tim
I see this as yet another "chicken little - the sky is falling" kind of concern. IE, much ado about nothing . . .
A pain to clean, that I can relate to!
- Tim
How are you going to cut the tanks? I have a bad one that I was thinking about cutting up but wasn't sure what tool to use. That is some pretty thick aluminum.
tadawson
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I would think the ticket would be a metal cutting band saw myself . . . . Not sure what else could handle the wall thickness and diameter, short of some big industrial pipe cutter.
- Tim
- Tim
mike_s
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I just wonder if the "scuba tank dog water bowl" coolness factor will be outweighed by paying $15 plus shipping from Anchorage, AK?
UPS Ground for 8 pounds from Anchorage to me in the Southeast USA is $$ 27.52 USD. (according to ups.com)
UPS Ground for 8 pounds from Anchorage to me in the Southeast USA is $$ 27.52 USD. (according to ups.com)
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