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Posted: 2/18/2024 9:28:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OP is in Texas, the water WILL get hot! I was in west Texas in early September and it was hot as hell! But put black plastic over it to increase the solar heat. It is February. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 9:40:00 AM EDT
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Quoted: I aquired this 5000 gallon water tank but it has a dent on it from resting on its side for a year. The walls are 3/4” thick. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/32554/IMG_3732_jpeg-3132578.JPG I have the gasket and pipe for the holes on the bottom but need to pull this dent out so the gasket can sit flush. There is an access port from the top than I can get into it. Its 10’ wide by 10’ tall. Thanks. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 9:50:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ETA. Guess you can’t embed a short https://youtube.com/shorts/_oe_dbNTStk?si=jl88lx0lhw-1Hb2C Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ether and a match like they do with large tires. ETA. Guess you can’t embed a short https://youtube.com/shorts/_oe_dbNTStk?si=jl88lx0lhw-1Hb2C  The proper way to lose your job #automobile #job #explosion #reaction remove "shorts/" from the link before you post 
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Posted: 2/18/2024 9:56:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes. Thats the problem. It wont seal properly with the dent and I can’t fill it properly with water. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Sealing it is going to be a problem with the bottom deformed......No? Yes. Thats the problem. It wont seal properly with the dent and I can’t fill it properly with water. While it's filling and its regaining its form, keep tighten the fiting. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 9:57:02 AM EDT
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Stick a chunk of 4x4 in that hole, wrap a chain around it, secure the tank, and pull with winch or whatever
Don’t get in it |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 10:07:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I agree with filling it. I'd be careful about going in, at least without a spotter, for breathable air issues. Edit - I used to work at a chemical company, and there were several tanks, some larger than that. For anyone to go inside, there were procedures like wearing a harness, having two spotters to pull you out, etc. Apparently breathable air can be an issue more quickly than you'd think. I've never been in one; just sharing safety info. OP- any chance you work in the oilfield? If so, toss you personal gas monitor in there before entry. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 10:12:44 AM EDT
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Fill tank to just below the open port. This is for weight.
Make a disc out of plywood a bit bigger than the port. Put some kind of rubber on one side of the disk. Also, a big reinforced eyebolt that you can use to pull on. Place disk on the inside of the port, rubber side out. Put tension on disk with truck or something pulling outward. Continue to fill tank above port, and continue pulling. Maybe, use some heat to soften the area, seeing as it's winter now. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 10:46:18 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Confined space. Not only no but fuck no. Don't do that unless you are confined space trained and have the proper equipment. You'll need two "spotters", safety harness, a hoist, two air monitors [one for you to wear and one to be left near the opening of the tank]. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Get inside and wedge a 4x4 to the opposite side. Or use one of those joist jacks like builders use in basements to support the floor above. Confined space. Not only no but fuck no. Don't do that unless you are confined space trained and have the proper equipment. You'll need two "spotters", safety harness, a hoist, two air monitors [one for you to wear and one to be left near the opening of the tank]. True story. The problem with things like confined spaces and LOTO are that your life depends on other people knowing and following the training the same as you do. It would take a while to earn that level of trust from me. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 11:00:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fill it with water. This |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 11:05:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes. Thats the problem. It wont seal properly with the dent and I can’t fill it properly with water. Sch 80 bulkhead fitting might help straighten the opening. Drop a rope through the top opening, fish it out through the bottom opening then run the bulkhead fitting down the rope. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 11:09:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes. Thats the problem. It wont seal properly with the dent and I can’t fill it properly with water. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Sealing it is going to be a problem with the bottom deformed......No? Yes. Thats the problem. It wont seal properly with the dent and I can’t fill it properly with water. When you tighten up the flange from both sides, it should seal fine |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 11:21:14 AM EDT
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Air pressure? Seal leaks Pump in air.
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Posted: 2/18/2024 12:43:20 PM EDT
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Use one of these to get inside and brace it outside. Might get the area around the seal flat enough to use.
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Posted: 2/18/2024 2:21:03 PM EDT
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I'm sure you can orchestrate some kind of BLEVE.
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Posted: 2/18/2024 4:37:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Really can't stop watching this  This needs to be an In gif Quote HistoryQuoted: Really can't stop watching this This needs to be an In gif Dun did it. 
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Posted: 2/18/2024 5:06:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/18/2024 5:57:50 PM EDT
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Saw something like that years ago but with 55 gallon drum. Someone was pouring out the contents of polyester resin into gallon jugs. When the drum was not pouring anymore, he decided to shine a light inside to be sure it was empty. Oh, but he didn’t have a light so he used lighter which he proceeded to drop inside while he was looking. The results was sound of a jet engine and flame like that shooting out of the bung hole. Had the building it was in not have been solid poured concrete, the place would have went up in seconds.
One of the other guys there was crazy strong, fire plug, ex navy vet who ran over grabbed the drum with his bear forearms and threw it out the back. I wish I could say that was dumbest thing I saw the resin pouring guy do, but I could write a book on this guy. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 6:09:48 PM EDT
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Try heating the area with a blowtorch?
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Posted: 2/18/2024 7:15:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sch 80 bulkhead fitting might help straighten the opening. Drop a rope through the top opening, fish it out through the bottom opening then run the bulkhead fitting down the rope. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yes. Thats the problem. It wont seal properly with the dent and I can’t fill it properly with water. Sch 80 bulkhead fitting might help straighten the opening. Drop a rope through the top opening, fish it out through the bottom opening then run the bulkhead fitting down the rope. Good idea .... what I was thinking as well. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 7:46:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sch 80 bulkhead fitting might help straighten the opening. Drop a rope through the top opening, fish it out through the bottom opening then run the bulkhead fitting down the rope. This is the way. Works like a charm. Clean the inside and outside mating surfaces around the opening very well first. Make sure you get the gasket and slide ring in the proper order or you will have a leak. You can bear down pretty good on a sch. 80 bulkhead that size. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 8:04:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is the way. Works like a charm. Clean the inside and outside mating surfaces around the opening very well first. Make sure you get the gasket and slide ring in the proper order or you will have a leak. You can bear down pretty good on a sch. 80 bulkhead that size. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Sch 80 bulkhead fitting might help straighten the opening. Drop a rope through the top opening, fish it out through the bottom opening then run the bulkhead fitting down the rope. This is the way. Works like a charm. Clean the inside and outside mating surfaces around the opening very well first. Make sure you get the gasket and slide ring in the proper order or you will have a leak. You can bear down pretty good on a sch. 80 bulkhead that size. Will try it tomorrow.  Attached FileCant fill it with water with the flange not installed and cant install it with this dent.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 8:17:55 PM EDT
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That fitting is a beast. You can absolutely tighten it enough to straighten/seal that opening. No doubt. Do you have the bolts, washers, any other gaskets or spacer rings for it?
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Posted: 2/18/2024 8:20:43 PM EDT
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A quart of white gas, and a zippo lighter.
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Posted: 2/18/2024 8:21:14 PM EDT
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Don’t enter the tank.
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Posted: 2/18/2024 8:36:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That fitting is a beast. You can absolutely tighten it enough to straighten/seal that opening. No doubt. Do you have the bolts, washers, any other gaskets or spacer rings for it? I have all the fittings bolts, rubber hardware for it. I need to get an 8” NPT pvc nipple and plug it. |
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Posted: 2/18/2024 9:09:55 PM EDT
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8"? You can reach right in to put the bolts in and tighten them down evenly in x pattern, holding the back of the bolts. It will seal. Clean out all of that sediment before you put the fitting on.
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