[TheForge] Re: Diesel Gas Question

[Mark and Sylvia Mondloch]

I also vote for a strap with lifting rings.It will take less time to make 
than messing with soap and water and you can use it on other barrels.Mark
mondloch at silvercreekpottery.com
www.silvercreekpottery.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Brown" <lp.brown at verizon.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Diesel Gas Question


>
> 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       .~.
>
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