[TheForge] Re: Diesel Gas Question

[Larry Brown]

I second making a strap with lifting rings that can be bolted around the 
drum if you are in doubt as to its previous life
L Brown

At 03:32 PM 3/1/2007 -0400, you wrote:

> > but should I fill [a used diesel fuel drum] to overflowing with
> > soapy water before I weld it?
>
>Yes.  Oh, yes.  It's really a bummer to wake up on the other side of
>the shop/yard with the job half done and a piece of your face missing.
>
>Or better yet, go find one of those steel-drum muckles -- two
>specially shaped hooks on link rods attached to a sturdy ring -- that
>stevedores and riggers use for lifting drums.  (Anybody know
>the proper name for this thing?)
>
>Or make a clamp-on, removable, 1/8" x 2" band with lift rings.  It's not
>like you're going to have to move your drum several times a day.
>
>
>- Mike
>
>--
>Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.