Posted by prosandbagger@aol.com on June 27, 2022 at 13:30:38 from (64.150.146.35):
In New Jersey we have to open fuel tanks from home heating oil and clean them out. I was the one in the yard that had to do this service so that we could bring it to the junkyard and get a receipt. I used a cutting torch, at first I would stick the torch in the hole that you fill it from, sometimes it made a little poof other times nothing, then I would take the cutting torch and cut a large round hole in the bottom of the tank then we would throw in kitty litter pick up any fuel that was left over, then scrape it up and then bring the tank to the junkyard.
As here in New Jersey there are some areas like ours that had septic tanks, we took some of these 550 or 1000 gallon tanks cut a large hole in the bottom a hole the size of a small pump on the top, then normally a 3 inch hole in the top side, then finally a number from 20 to 30 small holes all around the tank. If you got the tag extremely hot from putting all these holes in at one time the tank would occasionally catch fire and when it was burning the black smoke was thick. Sometimes we let The tank sit there and burn as it would get rid of all the fuel that was still in the tank which consisted of just Slime. But as far as exploding no it doesn t happen not from a diesel tank, take it from experience I have cut open with a torch at least 25 tanks in my lifetime, but a gasoline tank there is no way I would even think about it. I have only seen one gas tank welded, it was around the neck where the cap locks on. He was older gentleman, doing the job he filled the tank up completely to where the fuel was just below where he was going to weld, Then he stuffed a rag in the tank brazed the area that he was working on the rag did catch fire as soon as he was done he pulled the rag out and he was finished in less than five minutes and collected $50 this was back in 1976
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