Bella- If you're interested in pressure testing a tank, I would suggest doing so at about 4 psi - based on my experience pressure testing sewers which have just been installed. That may seem like a tiny bit of pressure, but it is sufficient. Get a low pressure bicycle gauge and a bicycle pump and pressurize your tank. If the gauge holds air for 4 hours with *no* loss of pressure, it'll hold fuel.
Good luck; I'm back to lurking and dreaming of sailing. Dennis From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 'bella Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] gas tank.. thanks for thinking of me Norm... that might might work for a water tank.. I had a very long discussion about this with a company owner who makes such things.. has the equipment to weld plastic... the main problem any 'careful amateur' has is that they have no way to pressure test a tank.. since the tank will hold gasoline with corrosive ethanol in it.. I prefer to live with the knoweldge that a pinhole leak that I don't know about that is eating away or rather melting my hull does not or might not exist I am not that much in to living dangerously. <snipped> _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
