chemical tanks

[Big Dog]

I was playing around the other day with 2 upright 85 gal tanks. I was using 1 for water and premix a little soap in the other. Thought I would practice upstreaming.

So I'm washing along and doing fine when I decided to stop for a few mins. to do something else. I did not think to shut the valves.

Anyway when I came back I suddenly discovered that the levels where the same in both tanks. Eureka!!!!! I discovered the law of gravity. I am such a dummy sometimes.

All this chatting leads to another question. I am building a new rig with 6-15 gal chem tanks and I plan on upstreaming. The question is do I need to put those one way valve thingymados on each line? I do plan to have my chem tanks above the water tank.

These tanks are kinda like 5 gal buckets and I was planning to lay them on their sides in a rack. Would I be better to put them on the floor upright and just drop in a suction line?

 

[Warren Smathers]

Bigboy,
A while back you posted a pic of your rig and it had a rack like he's talking about. Did you buy it somewhere or have it made custom?

 

[Steven Rowlett]

Big Dog, I would suggest using the containers upright and dropping a chemical line in each one. Mount six ballvalves on a pipe together between the containers and then run a line to the upstream injector. This way you can open up one valve at a time. Give me a call and I can fax you a diagram and list of all the parts you will need. I believe a check valve between the tanks would have prevented the flow between tanks.