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Hi
Rusty;
Up here in the north where logging is the main industry,
bed mounted fuel tanks are very common as everybody that works heavy equipment
out in the bush requires a truck to support it. Many have 150 gal "tidy tanks"
with a 12volt pump, to haul diesel, however in recent years combination fuel
tank/tool boxes made from aluminium have become very popular. Several of the
local fabricating shops make beautiful and very functional tanks/tool boxes. If
this interests you I can see about getting a pic.
Currently I'm just using my jeep and jerry cans (had to
sell the truck to build the plane) which I fill at the cardlock, but soon I plan
to buy another new truck and install a tank. There is a refinery across the road
from the pulpmill where I work and I can buy direct from the bulk plant at a
substantial discount if I buy more than 500 litres. I also buy marked gas for
the plane, which is simply fuel with a purple dye to indicate that no road tax
has been paid. I'm uncertain and curious as to whether you have a similar deal
in the US?
Just
another option.
The
tank idea is good, but can anyone
suggest an inexpensive
place for me to purchase
sheet alumumin for a
self supporting tank? (someplace that would even cut it up to my pattern would
be even better!) I will weld it up myself, in a custom form, so it has to be
thick enough. Any suggestions on the thickness, weldability and strength for a
moveable AL
tank?
Marc Wiese
I measured today, and the bed of the truck
is just high enough to gravity feed to the RV-3 tanks. I haven't
really researched tank material yet, so I'm not absolutely sure it will even
be worth making one, as opposed to buying one already made. Most of
the ones you buy are "approved" for transport, so that might be a good
reason to get something off the shelf, though a fitting would have
to be added to the bottom for easier gravity
feed.
Rusty (still thinking)
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