Nice job. To make this pass CARB and DOT crash testing. Form your baffle @ 90* so it's a 1¹/²" flange. Weld the front of the flange to the tank body. This allows the baffle to expand during a crash and not rip a hole in the tank body. Also connect a flat or round bar from the fill neck to about 1" from the bottom of the tank. CARB and Los Angeles Fire Department require this. It's under believe that fuel free falling over 10" can create a static charge. Also 112 gallons is the most you are allowed to haul above your frame rails with out a HAZMAT license. I've built fuel tanks for dang near 20 years. But nice job! I'm enjoying your channel!

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

This is all very interesting. Thank you for sharing!! I love it!

@cjgibbons5850

4 жыл бұрын

Can you explain the baffle part again? Would the baffle be parallel to the floor or turned 90 from where he put it? And what flange are you talking about? Thanks

@danielellis2617

4 жыл бұрын

@@cjgibbons5850 no problem! The way he has the baffle it's a flat plate welded directly to the tank body. This causes a direct pull on the on the tank body. This can tear a hole in the tank. In an accident, or road vibrations you want the baffle to flex. To do this cut the baffle 3" taller and 3" wider than the inside dimension of the tank. Then bend 1.5" of the baffle at 90* on all 4 sides. Basically creating a tab on all 4 sides. Then weld the very front of this tab to the tank body. This will allow there to be flex at the 90* bend. An not a straight pull on the tank body. I hope that makes sense. It's kinda hard to explain but it's super easy. I wish I could post a drawing here. Lol

@danielellis2617

4 жыл бұрын

@@cjgibbons5850 sorry forgot to mention the baffle would be in the same orientation as he put it. You want it to stop as much fuel splash as possible.

@cjgibbons5850

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielellis2617 Great thank you very much for responding I understand what you are saying exactly. On a side note is there any advantage to breaking the flanges in opposite directions?

Great vid, I've never seen more informative comments on a welding video.

From the retired welder. I got to give it to you Austin.thats A++ in my book 😎 yeah you doing it. Lots of love stay hydrated

It came out nice! One recommendation I can make if you ever make another fuel tank, especially aluminum, is to put a stiffener or gusset inside of the fitting that will have the pump in it. Vibration going down the road, pumps getting hit, hoses getting pulled seem to stress that area. That looked like heavy material so it’ll be years before there’s an issue. More than likely there won’t be. Take care!

@jakobbolyer1735

4 жыл бұрын

Yes , I was gonna say the same I used to weld for a fueling company and this was the number one issue repairing pump bases that cracked depending on the pumps they can be pretty heavy. I would always put 4 small gussets on the coupling just something to think about on the next one.

@northwestgaming4049

3 жыл бұрын

Yes at highway products we used .188 aluminum with another top plate at the pump for support.

One of my first jobs out of high school was where they made air filter boxes for trains and semi trucks. Similar too your fuel tank only much smaller, about the size of a micro wave oven. The welders used mig process. After they finished, my job was to put seals on the openings, rubber gaskets, and fill them with air pressure, then push them under water in a tank and look for bubbles, leaks, mark them and send any leakers back to the welders to fix. Interesting job right out of high school.

@marksarovich5534

3 жыл бұрын

We used to spray dish soap and air it up with a schrader valve to about 5 lbs. No need to go underwater.

@million65555

3 жыл бұрын

@@marksarovich5534 Nice. It was a fun job, I actually enjoyed it.

Good stuff, Austin! You've got a great attitude and I love picking up little bits of wisdom and learning from your experience every week.

Got me a 1977 c10 can’t wait to start welding on her thanks for the help on welding advice you’d make a great welding instructor love your videos man!!!!

One of the men in the welding community I look up to the most even more cool the man the myth the legand lives in the great state of Oklahoma🤟🏿

Awesome job... you would be an awesome school welding instructor!!

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@billmcyrus

4 жыл бұрын

Who knows, he might do that next.

@atVVV1

4 жыл бұрын

Do they have air conditioning?

@michaelvinalon3415

4 жыл бұрын

I agree !

@lachiew4465

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao my school teacher doesnt teach shit he explained the lathes a bit and thats it 😂 everything is kinda trial and error so is fun

I own a Landscape buisness today, but the 3 years of welding school I did many years back has proven to be one of the best skills i possess today! Love the vids

Hey Austin! I’m about to start welding school and I just recently found your channel and I love your videos, they’re really helping me decide what kind of welding work I wanna get in to when I get into the field! I can wait to start school & this is just getting me more excited. I’ll be attending Tulsa welding school in Jacksonville, Florida starting June 22nd.

Planning on starting welding school in August. Really enjoyed this video! Keep them coming please!

@dalton-ychtuz7851

4 жыл бұрын

Which school?

This my favorite time on fridays watch a new video ... Thanks for share my amigo god bless you

Nice job!! I bought a 100 gal tank less than a year ago from a farm store, lasted 7 months & split down a seam. Been thinking of building my own

Looking great Austin. I see your enjoying this heat as well as I am in KS. No wind !!

GRATE JOB BROTHER YOU ARE A GOOD WELDER !!!

I have to say I really like the more informative videos you have been doing of late. I actually used your crescent wrench metal fold the other day (from your lid video). Keep up the great work!

Good job Austin, looks like it’s going to work 👍👍

Very nice Austin love what you have to say about hints and tricks my good man keep up the good. Work man

That turned out very nice. I am a welder and work for a local company in NE Kansas and we build fuel tanks that are shipped across the country.

Hi Austin Finely learned where you are based. I lived near Stillwater ( 4 north, 6 west) in '73. Interesting place, glad to be gone though. Always look in on Fridays, thanks for being here.

Those clamp thingies are very interesting.

Great build Austin....before I was a farmer I worked for a company wholesaling tanks in Texas and Oklahoma...and most of the defects we saw would be from cracks around the nipple where the pump was mounted. Most of the tanks we sold over time started reinforcing that area where the pump was. It also was a big plus if the installers cut a piece of rubber and put under the tanks when mounting....or got the fancy mounting kit Weatherguard made.

@marksarovich5534

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea with that rubber. Real good idea.

Hey Austin! Hope you folks are well man! I always love watching your shows. I’ve only tack welded mig won’t do anything of serious life important shit! But u are a really good instructor! And I ain’t even used my millermatic 215! Again I appreciate your desire! I like to build wood furniture but I want to incorporate wood and steel so your and have been a great source of viable and important information! Thanks!

Looks great Austin, have a great weekend!!!

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. You too

I really enjoy your videos

The fab shop I work at we make a lot of hydraulic reservoirs and the only time we stop is at the corners of the tanks it reduces if the chances of leaks but I believe Austin is good enough on his tie ends he won’t have any issues great build bud

Good job Austin, God bless ya brotha🤙🏻

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Where I'm from, we call those things "dogs". We use wedges to push them apart or together to align parts. I fabricated a couple with bolts, so I don't have to use wedges. Great video BTW.

@Lahainalongboarder

3 жыл бұрын

I also call them dog and wedges 🤙🏻

Thanks Austin! Awesome video!

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

You bet!

Austin I have watched your videos off and on over the years. Like you attitude. Really like you language. ( can watch while my wife a grandkids are in the room). I have been in the business for 41 years now. Started entry level helper. Fitter, fabricator, then welder. And still learn and pick up little tricks from watching these videos. Great job. Could you show some details on the fit up tools you made on the fuel tank ? Thank you.

Cool job , came out clean 👍

I like it , nice work Austin !

Nice work Austin 👌👌

Great work. God bless.

Good job man!! Hope everything is going good with you guys. Keep up the good work. Be safe and I’ll catch you next week.

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Hope everything is good with y’all also!

Really like your building stuff videos 👍👍👍

You’re a real Pro Austin, you can do anything. Good to see you’re getting work during these difficult times.

Beautiful 👍

Hi Austin. I came to your Channel over the Sidebar of YT, while watching Andrew Camaratas Videos. Im from Germany, im not a professional Welder. I am an Electrician, doing Welding only for repairing my Stuff like a Hobby. Its very interesting to see, how made the Jobs done in other countries. I started Welding about 3 Years ago with Tig. I found it the easyest Way. I thought its a little like soldering Wires, or soldering Copper Pipes with a Torch, so for me it was easy to learn. For some thin Metal works at my Car, I bought a MIG Machine, witch also can Stick Rods and a Plasma Cutter. Next Thing i want to try is with the Stick Rods. In your Videos i can see how good they work outside in the Field, for example at windy Conditions. Seems like a good Option, between the MIG Machine with a Flux cored Wire and the Stick Rods. At least for higher Currents 150 Amps plus, cause the MIG Cable (does it mean Cable or Hose in English?!? XD) is getting quiet hot very fast at these Amps. I also use a Propane Oxy Torch, but only for heating Things, loosening Bolts not for Cutting. For me Propane is much cheaper than Acethylen/ Ethin. 22l (11kg) Propane are about 18$ and for 20l (4kg) Acethylen the Gasguy charge about 100$...

Great job Austin

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Nice project great job.

Here in Texas we call lineup tools like that a hootus! 😆

@bobbyboykin7137

3 жыл бұрын

Umm, been in Texas all of my 57 years and never heard of no hootus. LOL

@kevinkeith6592

3 жыл бұрын

I have always called them dogs, don't know why, just what the old guys here in Ohio taught me.....wait now I 'm the old guy. Do you do a hydro test ?

Great job soldier

Kool burn-through Shot.

excellent advice

Love your videos 👍

Looks pretty good buddy.

How many people looked up this video anticipating JB’s fuel shortage?

Austin iam from algeria you are welder and man good love jour job .think you.farid

Really good job bud

Good job.

Nice job young fella

8:08 thats me with this georgia heat XD XD

Hi Austin When I built tanks, I had then bent but C shaped where they would come together for less selfish could only weld baffle on three side's but held. Like your show.

I'm thinking about building one for my truck now

Great videos

Really nice build austin. losta welding.

Nice to know you are in Stillwater. I might need to run over to get a circle cutter from your supply house. Tulsa isn’t far at all.

Dang nice!

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Had to follow since we're neighbors... Perkins here

Welding in a steel building in Oklahoma in june= sweat

don’t even weld yet but very informative and definitely learned some stuff.

Could have bent a third piece of sheet to save a weld. But this is a welding channel lol. Looks great!!!

Good job 👍🏼

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

We call it bullpin. 👍🏽

Great JOB Austin. Gotta get me a mig welder.

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice job 👍 Should die grind stop/starts to eliminate leaks. Possibly air test with soapy water

I didn’t know your shop was in Stillwater? Or maybe it’s not!!! My son goes to OSU, I really enjoy your videos!!👍

Been seeing a lot of welding rigs on the road here in Texas maybe pipeline work will pick up soon for you

Austin you should be the 1st. pipeline working, you have acrosswelding.

Austin, love your channel and content. Self taught 'not-a-welder' here. I do a few things myself with the 6 machines I've acquired over the years with no formal training so bear with me. Is there any discussion on what types of fuel or material for such that can be used different types of fuel. Love to build my own stuff and learn as I go. Will probably force myself to take some courses at the local college someday. Thanks again for your channel

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

Not that I’m aware of. A lot of it comes down to personal preference.

Seemed strange to see a pipeliner running mig! I expected to see the sparks flying off of a 5P! Ha! Good lookin tank, and the hoist is worth its weight in gold, isn’t it! Weld on.......

If I was custom building, I would add a baffle right next to the necks because mine sloshes up against the filler when full, making it ooze.

@FelonyVideos

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea. The baffle for the neck could just be a next size up nipple about 12 inches long, going down inside the tank. If welded all the way around, it would also serve as a gusset, stopping cracks locally and making repairs easier, since this is where the tank is going to crack.

@chucknSC

3 жыл бұрын

@@FelonyVideos you'd need to drill a hole near the top for letting the air vent so fuel can come up in it. Or the fuel cap can vent.

@FelonyVideos

3 жыл бұрын

@@chucknSC The fuel pump inlet pipe goes most of the way to the bottom of the tank.

I was on the a job with STRIKE in Chickasha OK last year

You ever do any more jobs let me know before hand. It is what I used to do. Granted I ran a million dollar punch to insert holes for our baffles, but I used to work for a aluminum flatbed/service body were we did tool boxs headache racks and underbody boxs for semi and flatbed. Fuel tanks and pretty much anything aluminum and for vehicles.

Those dealys are a dog and wedge as far as I ever knew. on a show I watched they use them alot building ships to pull the deck plates into alignment before welding. Curious Did you check for leaks? Im sure its fine, but alot easier to fix before it gets filled with flammable liquids. Curious also could you have also just broke the pieces into essentially two “ U” shapes and nested them together? Although really probably winds up being similar amount of welding either way i suppose. Awesome job !

Its called fitup bars, or dogs and wedges in the boilermaker world

I know i want to eventually build a new fuel tank for my trk. Right now i have a tank with gas in it for the tractor and generator. I want to make it tall and without the space under it and make front to rear skinnier but the real fun part is dual fuel. Gas on passenger side with pump then diesel on driver side gravity into trk. About 30G and 30D so 60 total

Make a video of hydro or dye pen testing. I think I would be interesting video

@mmkucharczyk81

4 жыл бұрын

what we used to do when i build tanks is we would pump about 5psi of air in it no more and used soap water in a sprayer to fined leaks

@marksarovich5534

3 жыл бұрын

@@mmkucharczyk81 Yup!

I love the vids very helpful, but you should try and do a closeup when your wielding just a thought but keep it up man

Love your videos. How do you keep the plate from warping?

11:12.....I always heard if you gotta grind ur weld so they look good, it makes you a grinder, not a welder. Lol. Just pick'n on ya bud!......did you pressure test/leak test that fuel tank?

Great product. I would only recommend cleaning it before you close it up..

Where did the 231 come from when dividing

@arosswelding

4 жыл бұрын

231 cubic inches in a gallon

Step by step exactly how we build our 500gal tanks for Core trailers

@marksarovich5534

3 жыл бұрын

Our baffles had large holes to eliminate moments of inertia ...

Excellent workmanship! However, would it be prudent to pressurize the vessel with a few pounds of air and soap test all the welds prior to filling with fuel? Asking for a friend.

@evadevries2952

3 жыл бұрын

No doubt. I've installed dozens of new tanks in boats, and every time I picked them up from fabricator he had them pressurized so I could see them holding air. He would then soap the welds in front of me.

@SWC44

3 жыл бұрын

@@evadevries2952 BEING A UL LISTED 142 TANK FABRICATOR FOR 40+ YEARS, WE HAD TO AIR TEST AT 5 PSI, AND A BIG NO-NO, WAS MIG WELDING!!!!!!!! THEN YOUR UL PLATE WENT ON!!!!!!

@northwestgaming4049

3 жыл бұрын

@@SWC44 pressure test and with fuel tank tank penetration is in important so we also had to use an indoscope to check.

@townsendliving9750

2 жыл бұрын

@@SWC44 were you welding with stick? I'm assuming cause of heat and warping?

How about a pressure check to see if it 's not going to leak.Nice job.

Hey Austin I’m having trouble finding a cap what do you recommend and what gauge metal did you use?

Preassure test!

I’ve always found the best way to weld those corner to corner joints is just downhill weld them

@leonhough5932

4 жыл бұрын

Same gravity always seems to help not get too much melt through

Hi Austin, just seen this video now and its amazing. Like your work. Btw whats the thickness of the MS plate you used?

I might have missed it, but how thick was the plate? 3/16"?

Do you soap test it for leaks? We used to put about 5 psi air pressure in the tanks and put soapy water on all the welds checking for leaks.

Bro, should've shown a pressure test, but Awesome build🤘🤘🤘

Great job and could you give any information on dolly you put it at the end?

Perfect way to combat California gas prices , take a drive to Arizona for cheap prices and fill her up

Nice video, were those some custom made brackets you used to clamp the sides together around 6:45?

Currently trying to make money on small shop projects. Have a pretty good concept about welding just not building. What do recommend for simpler projects. What sells? Thanks.

Hey Austin. I watch few of Youre vids. I think that camera likes You and thats a good thing :) I`m from Poland. I work in Powerplants and mines as a construction workes, welder helper and now as a foreman. I`m not affraid of physical work, more that that, I like it. I Like to be tired but watch at my work and be proud of it. I was wondering. Is that any chance that a man with almost 15 years od experiance with angle grinders and other stuff can aply for a welder helper job in a pipeline ? Is there a staff deficit in this profession? I ask purely theoretically. Stay safe, good day !