What about using a white foam cooler you can get from Walmart during any summer. I think they cost about 3 bucks. Fill it with 3 gallons of water, mark the line... empty water, place release agent ( plastic wrap ) inside and fill with your plaster up to the given line. Be it would be alot faster
just a thought. -Jeff Wilder CISSP,CCE,C/EH -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/CM/CS/O d- s:+ a C+++ UH++ P L++ E- w-- N+++ o-- K- w O- M-- V-- PS+ PE- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5- X-- R* tv b++ DI++ D++ G e* h--- r- y+++* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >From: "D Lively" <riksh...@lisco.com> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> >Subject: KR> 3 Gallon Header Tank >Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:59:08 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from lizard.esosoft.net ([66.241.145.18]) by >bay0-mc2-f17.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Mon, >26 Mar 2007 11:59:13 -0700 >Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lizard.esosoft.net)by >lizard.esosoft.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63)(envelope-from ><krnet-boun...@mylist.net>)id 1HVuPM-00084v-0r; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:08 >-0700 >Received: from madison.lisco.com ([69.18.32.36])by lizard.esosoft.net with >esmtp (Exim 4.63)(envelope-from <riksh...@lisco.com>) id >1HVuPE-00084p-56for kr...@mylist.net; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:00 -0700 >Received: from DESKTOP (69-18-25-45.lisco.net [69.18.25.45])by >madison.lisco.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A02927C1Efor <kr...@mylist.net>; >Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:58:54 -0500 (CDT) >X-Message-Info: >LsUYwwHHNt0bxEY1HxT9GoUopyIqk8LsbQFZf806cp//JT6cOPzYv6y7kYqE33w5 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 >X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.4 >X-BeenThere: kr...@mylist.net >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 >Precedence: list >List-Id: KRnet <krnet.mylist.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet>,<mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://mylist.net/private/krnet> >List-Post: <mailto:kr...@mylist.net> >List-Help: <mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: ><http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet>,<mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=subscribe> >Errors-To: krnet-boun...@mylist.net >Return-Path: krnet-boun...@mylist.net >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2007 18:59:13.0479 (UTC) >FILETIME=[D83C2D70:01C76FD8] > >KR Netters: > >I have bee perplexed for som time on how to make a 3-gallon header tank >but I think I have a solution that uses the pre-molded F/G tank for a mold. > >Simply use PVC Foam Bead-Board to fabricate dams in the pre-molded tank in >accord with the volume desired and line the cavity with saran-wrap for a >release agent. Then place a piece of plastic pipe in the middle of the >cavity equally spaced from the foam dams and any side wall of the >pre-molded tank. In the middle of the volume outside the pipes hang several >very light chains(optional). Then fill the void contining the chains with >"Casting Plaster" of "Plaster of Paris". When it is cured then remove the >pipe in the middle and the plaster cast from the pre-molded tank. > >You should now had a form to lay up your header tank on. After your tank >is cured then wind the chains up that you cast into the plaster on a >slotted flat bar to break up the plaster form and free your new tank. > >I got this idea from the way filament winding forms are made for limited >production cylindrical tanks. > >Don Lively >Burlington IA 52601 >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >Post photos, introductions, and For Sale items to >http://www.kr2forum.com/phpBB2/index.php >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html