Blacksmith Jim Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 The old gas tank I have is about the same dimensions as Jr.s. I like the idea of the wheels and tong rack. That sounds like a great addition! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecart Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 i have one of those stainless steel soup pots like the ones a restuarant uses it is fine small enough to empty but big enough for the job only problem i have it is too close to the floor maybe a little stand in the future i forget even how i ended up with it , hope i didn't do anything illegal to aquire it So THAT'S what happened to my soup pot!!! I have a small galvanized tub that I use. I had a bigger one filled with peanut oil, but I had it sitting close to my vise. I was using an ax head to open a space in a piece that I had welded the end of. It wedged in, so I knocked it out with the hammer. It fell into the quench tank. I didn't pay it any attention until I finished what I was doing, then I pulled it out of the tub. The fact that it was somewhat difficult to get out should have been a hint. Next thing I knew is that I had peanut oil running all over the dirt floor. After a couple of seconds of panic, I dumped some trash out of a metal trash can, I dumped the remaining oil into it where it still is today. I put a 1.5" or so gash in the bottom of the old quench tank. So now it holds some odd pieces of steel that are waiting for a new project to claim them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Ecart, could you fix it with epoxy putty or similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecart Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 Y'know, I haven't actually thought of fixing it. But yeah, I suppose I could do that. I may try it sometime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welder19 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 1/2 of an old wine barrel welder19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J W Bennett Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Aaron, I cut the top out of mine with plasma cutter, but no thicker than they are I would say you could drill a pilot hole and a sawsall would work fine. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagedude Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Here's my slack tub which I made from a cast iron slack tub! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 hi thomas, i would be doing allot of horse shoe making, and allot of smal interior work, so i gues it has to be lang enough..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skunkriv Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Very nice tub imagedude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J W Bennett Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I grabbed a picture or two today, Yep it's a beer keg:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeep4x4greg Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 mine (no pic) is the other half of my forge (in progress still). the forge was made from an old verticle propane tank....i used half the tank for the forge, the other for a tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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