Modern storage tanks should adhere to API 650 and API 653 standards to ensure structural integrity. This led to stricter regulation and construction standards for steel and concrete (PS Magazine). A bevy of lawsuits was filed in the wake of the Boston Molasses Disaster, leading to a six-year investigation into the tank failure. The sticky liquid crested as high as 25 feet high as it swept through Boston’s streets, killing 21 people and injuring another 150 in its path. 15, 1919, releasing 2.3 million gallons of molasses. A poorly designed, constructed and maintained storage tank burst in Boston’s North End neighborhood on Jan. This should easily & efffectively end the problem, relatively cheap too.One of the most infamous storage tank failures occurred 100 years ago in Boston. After JB Weld has the holes fairly well blocked, then apply your fiberglass resin to the super-clean bottom side of tank. Give it a second application of JB Weld over the top of first after it has set up. You'd want a rough finish to help resin adhere even if doing outside bottom of tank.Īlso JB Weld is a very high strength epoxy, and can be forced through the pinholes, where it will leave a little expanded blob on the inside of tank to help hold it in place. It may be possible to weld a thin sheet of steel overlay where you have the pinholes, or to apply resin to underside of tank, where you can more effectively clean to bare metal. Because of that you'll have fuel seeping underneath the resin, gradually or quickly finding its way out of tank. Because you can't get in and super-clean the rust the fiberglass will most likely fail to adhere 100%, 'missing' just a bit here & there. Fiberglass will definitely withstand gas, but that will not be your problem.
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