Angle grinding a diesel fuel tank!

[dickh]

Don't use a grinder - use a 'Sabre' saw - like a large reciprocating saw but hand held and very efficient at cutting a fuel tank up. I also was going to use a Jigsaw or grinder but when I told our maintenace engineer he immediately said use the Sabre saw and he was right - went through it like butter, it took longer to rotate the tank to get at it than do the cutting. And no sparks, debris or noise. Hire one from a Hire shop with a metal cutting blade.

 

[Tallon]

Don't be a wimp. Take a gas axe to it. Tank removed in no time /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Tom

 

[Guest]

Whats the caustic for ? Have a hard sed's problem ? If the caustic doesn't dissolve well and you get variance - you may fling corrosive around your cabin ! plus onto YOU.

We use caustic to knock out Mercaptan Sulphur ... awful stuff .... hate it with a vengeance !!

 

[WayneS]

Slightly off track but I could post pictures (Gruesome) of a good friend who walked past a chap who was cutting a 44 gallon ethanol drum (which had been standing with the cap off for over a year) when a blast of air out of the filler cap blew his left calf away.

I know that diesel is very different to ethanol but proceed with caution.

 

[Appleyard]

what was a calf doing there in the first place?

 

[Guest]

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Slightly off track but I could post pictures (Gruesome) of a good friend who walked past a chap who was cutting a 44 gallon ethanol drum (which had been standing with the cap off for over a year) when a blast of air out of the filler cap blew his left calf away.

I know that diesel is very different to ethanol but proceed with caution.

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Now that is doubly stupid on the part of the "cutter" ..... Ethanol dilutes with water unlike diesel etc. It is so easy to wash out even without detergent etc.

Sorry about your friend.