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Re: [Shop-talk] Welding a full tank

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Welding a full tank
From: Mark Andy <marka@maracing.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:19:54 -0400 (EDT)
Howdy,

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, eric@megageek.com wrote:
> Today was about container that appear empty.  They have a bunch of
> information about cleaning them and such.  But caught my eye was when they
> said that if you are going to do "hot work" on a container, fill it with
> water.
>
> My question, if you are welding a 55 gal drum for example, filled with
> water, would you get proper penetration for the weld?

I did this once welding a handle back onto a 30 liter fuel drum.  Worked 
fine.  You need to use a little more heat than you normally would, as I 
recall, since there's such a big heat sink.

I'm sure someone that does it a lot would have better insight.  :-)

Mark
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