Re: rusty tanks (was: Trojan)

[VBra676539@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/6/99 9:07:33 AM, Buchner@wcta.net writes:

<<When you say "soft" tanks, it gets me thinking of balloons or innertubes or
something, which makes me think of those bladders inside household
captive-air pressure tanks -- those households which have their own wells,
that is.>>

yup, got one out on the pump pad right now, rusting away.  use 316L SS to 
build your mbts--if welded to the hull then you GOTTA be able to sandblast 
and paint--soft tanks are not necessarily unhard, of course--but they are 
usually fiberglas or even bladders flooded by pressure and pumped down 
electrically or hydraulically and use either seawater or oil if mounted 
externally (ne the early Pisces, et al)--hard tanks are pressure tanks--but 
you knew that, didn't you? vance