Round fuel tank

[JD840123]

Hi. Searching for someone than can make a round fuel tank with recessed end caps and rivets on the long seam. OD is 7.5 inches, OAL is 36 inches. Thanks.

 

[Welding man]

Round fuel tank would be easy, Rivets is the deal breaker.

 

[Centerplate]

Would there be any way to put on fake rivets?

 

[Welding man]

I thought the same thing,depends on how particular he may be.

 

[Janicholson]

Purchase an air tank similar to the one in the link. Have the ends sawn off and disks welded into the ends recessed as you want. you could have rivet
heads brazed on as desired (not contaminated with fuel yet) Jim
idea

 

[Bob Bancroft]

You want rivets showing on the long seam, but not necessary around the ends?

 

[DoubleO7]

(quoted from post at 11:18:42 11/26/20) Hi. Searching for someone than can make a round fuel tank with recessed end caps and rivets on the long seam. OD is 7.5 inches, OAL is 36 inches. Thanks.

What material?
What kind of rivets?
Such as old timey steam engine high dome looking?
You want the rivets totally inside the tank long seam?
Or an exposed sheet metal overlap edge with the rivet heads outside along the long seam?
You want the ends riveted also or welded?

 

[timcasbolt]

(quoted from post at 10:18:42 11/26/20) Hi. Searching for someone than can make a round fuel tank with recessed end caps and rivets on the long seam. OD is 7.5 inches, OAL is 36 inches. Thanks.

ould a piece of well casing with ends welded on it work for you? Not hard to build and very sturdy.

 

[Mule Meat]

Seriously daught that you will find a fuel tank made or anyone willing to build one using rivets. Liability to great.

By the time that combustion engines came along. Fuel tanks that held petro fuels were brazed, soldered or welded.

About the only place that you could still find riveted tanks was on cooling systems such as an Oldsmobile that used Tank cooling.

 

[SkipperII]

Use a small air tank, cut the ends off, flip them and weld back on, epoxy rivet heads on to fake the seam.

 

[Steve@Advance]

About any fab shop can do it.

Fake the rivets though. You could do them yourself with epoxy.

 

[fixerupper]

Yes you can epoxy the rivet heads on. I did something similar in a Ford GPW Jeep restoration. Certain bolts in certain locations on the Jeep had a script Ford f on the head of the bolts. Most of those bolts had been previously replaced or damaged on this vehicle but the owner of the jeep found a restoration outfit that sells these tiny script Ford fs that I could glue to the bolt heads to make them look like the real thing. With a coat of paint no one could tell the difference.

 

[moresmoke]

If the original tank is just sheet metal, I would hazard a guess that the rivets were just there to hold things together until it was soldered on the seams.

I’ve made a couple similar square tanks in the past, but the round ends would stump me.

 

[JD840123]

Material is galvanized sheet around 22-24,as a guess. The rivets are blind flat, tank ends recessed slightly with an overlapping seam
then soldered. Its a simple tank but the shops i talk too loose interest when you mention rivets. Going to line the inside with a tank
sealer when finished just to make sure.

 

[Patsdeere]

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[Charles in Aus.]

Tell me if this is a silly suggestion .
Use a gas bottle or other similar tank ,like a fire extinguisher bottle as an internal working tank . Cover the outside of this with a decorative sheet metal skin of your choice .

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 20:17:13 11/26/20) Material is galvanized sheet around 22-24,as a guess. The rivets are blind flat, tank ends recessed slightly with an overlapping seam
then soldered. Its a simple tank but the shops i talk too loose interest when you mention rivets. Going to line the inside with a tank
sealer when finished just to make sure.

22 gauge would be very light for a fuel tank.

 

[DoubleO7]

(quoted from post at 04:12:42 11/27/20) Send me an email. Email is open in classic. If in modern, take my user name and add @comcast.net to it.

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