SimpleSimon
Active Member
I made a one gallon "keg" sort of tank for myself.
What I did was go to Tractor Supply, and buy two half gallon goat milking pails - solid, reasonably heavy gauge stainless steel. A guy I know welded them together with a 1.5 inch strip of stainless between the rims, and a stainless 1 inch pipe flange welded into that. I also had him put an expanded metal slosh baffle in the middle, and a 3/8 diameter pipe nipple to hook a fitting to on the bottom for the fuel line. I bought a marine bronze i inch pipe cap and drilled a 1/16 hole through the top, put an O ring in it, and that's the "keg" cap.
The pails were basically $10 each, the flat stainless stock I got for free, and the pipe nipple and the cap cost me about $3 AT Home Depot. My friend welded it up for me for free - even tossed in the expanded metal slosh baffle from his scrap pile.
By the way, if you do something like this, on the inside of the cap tap a small metal screw hole into the bronze alongside the vent hole, and put a small metal flap across it with a turned under edge to keep it from sealing against the hole. That way you won't get a jet of fuel squirting out when you hit a big bump.
Absolutely full it would hold about 5 quarts, but I always just put one gallon of pre-mixed fuel in it from my gas can.
What I did was go to Tractor Supply, and buy two half gallon goat milking pails - solid, reasonably heavy gauge stainless steel. A guy I know welded them together with a 1.5 inch strip of stainless between the rims, and a stainless 1 inch pipe flange welded into that. I also had him put an expanded metal slosh baffle in the middle, and a 3/8 diameter pipe nipple to hook a fitting to on the bottom for the fuel line. I bought a marine bronze i inch pipe cap and drilled a 1/16 hole through the top, put an O ring in it, and that's the "keg" cap.
The pails were basically $10 each, the flat stainless stock I got for free, and the pipe nipple and the cap cost me about $3 AT Home Depot. My friend welded it up for me for free - even tossed in the expanded metal slosh baffle from his scrap pile.
By the way, if you do something like this, on the inside of the cap tap a small metal screw hole into the bronze alongside the vent hole, and put a small metal flap across it with a turned under edge to keep it from sealing against the hole. That way you won't get a jet of fuel squirting out when you hit a big bump.
Absolutely full it would hold about 5 quarts, but I always just put one gallon of pre-mixed fuel in it from my gas can.
