Making a fuel tank from stainless 304

Ignoramus6985 · 2008-08-10T22:07:00+00:00

This is is in regards to that 20 kW generator that I bought. It comeswith a 100 gallon day tank, which I think is insanely too big. Sounless someone makes me realize the error of my ways, I want to sellthat day tank and get something smaller. And I am thinking that I can safely make a simple tank. I have three sheets of stainless, I believe them to be 12 or 14 gaugeand 12x50 inches or so. From them, I could make a 20 gallon tank,probably 12x12x36 inches or some such, it would be compact and itwould not rust with stainless as material. If I tig this tank, and pressure test it, there sshould not be any bigproblems, or deterioration of this tank as time goes on. Right?i

Aug 10, 2008 23 Replies

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Jon Elson 17 years ago

Don't people around there use oil heat? I don't see that much difference between heating oil and Diesel.

Jon

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Gerald Miller 17 years ago

Guy I worked with many years ago had a space heater in the garage where he kept his Mercedes diesel. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Christopher Tidy 17 years ago

You don't need that phase convertor anymore, then? :-)

Chris

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jw 17 years ago

There isn't much. It's just the "quality" of the oil. Most fuel oil is grade 2, where diesel is grade 1. The real difference being the temperature at which it will gel.

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