Petrol Tank Disposal

Having changed my petrol tank I thought I'd be a good citizen and find out
how to make it safe before taking it to the tip. The council's answer was
that they will not take petrol tanks, made safe or not, and they wouldn't
tell me how to make it safe. So I now have not only an unsightly petrol
tank in the front garden, but a highly flammable unsightly petrol tank.

Apart from the traditional method of fitting to a vehicle, parking in a
ditch or lay-by, and applying a match, how does one go about making a tank
safe, and where do you get rid of them?
--
MTIA

Bob Miller
1990 ex-RAF 110 3.5 V8 17KJ83
3/4 ton Sankey 09ES17

wrap it in a wheelie bin liner & throw it in the tip without asking daft
questions that get you noticed!!! ;o)

Bob Miller wrote:

> Apart from the traditional method of fitting to a vehicle, parking in a
> ditch or lay-by, and applying a match, how does one go about making a tank
> safe, and where do you get rid of them?

Run it over with handy tracked vehicle (tank, drott, bulldozer,
whatever) until it stops looking like a petrol tank, then dispose of it
in the normal rubbish.

Despite the smiley we have actually done this.

--
EMB

yep - ask for forgiveness not permission - it just invites stupid answers~!

steve


"Martin Edwards" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> wrap it in a wheelie bin liner & throw it in the tip without asking daft
> questions that get you noticed!!! ;o)
>
>

Sell it on Ebay

--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes


"Bob Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Having changed my petrol tank I thought I'd be a good citizen and find out
> how to make it safe before taking it to the tip. The council's answer was
> that they will not take petrol tanks, made safe or not, and they wouldn't
> tell me how to make it safe. So I now have not only an unsightly petrol
> tank in the front garden, but a highly flammable unsightly petrol tank.
>
> Apart from the traditional method of fitting to a vehicle, parking in a
> ditch or lay-by, and applying a match, how does one go about making a tank
> safe, and where do you get rid of them?
> --
> MTIA
>
> Bob Miller
> 1990 ex-RAF 110 3.5 V8 17KJ83
> 3/4 ton Sankey 09ES17
>
>
>
>

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:41:00 +0100, "Bob Miller"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Having changed my petrol tank I thought I'd be a good citizen and find out
>how to make it safe before taking it to the tip. The council's answer was
>that they will not take petrol tanks, made safe or not, and they wouldn't
>tell me how to make it safe. So I now have not only an unsightly petrol
>tank in the front garden, but a highly flammable unsightly petrol tank.
>
>Apart from the traditional method of fitting to a vehicle, parking in a
>ditch or lay-by, and applying a match, how does one go about making a tank
>safe, and where do you get rid of them?

Fill it with water, then the top off with an angle grinder. Once you
have an entire side/top off you can safely cut it into six flat
panels, which are thence regarded as plain scrap metal.

Alex

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:27:16 -0700, "Martin Edwards"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>wrap it in a wheelie bin liner & throw it in the tip without asking daft
>questions that get you noticed!!! ;o)

Or just go there at a time when its busy and just put it in the scrap
metal container as per normal items. Nobody has ever said anything to
me and ive done this 3 or 4 times now. (petrol was drained out first
obviously)

In message <[email protected]>, Bob Miller
<[email protected]> writes
>Having changed my petrol tank I thought I'd be a good citizen and find out
>how to make it safe before taking it to the tip. The council's answer was
>that they will not take petrol tanks, made safe or not, and they wouldn't
>tell me how to make it safe. So I now have not only an unsightly petrol
>tank in the front garden, but a highly flammable unsightly petrol tank.
>
>Apart from the traditional method of fitting to a vehicle, parking in a
>ditch or lay-by, and applying a match, how does one go about making a tank
>safe, and where do you get rid of them?
With great difficulty. When I was involved in LPG conversions we had a
stack of them outside the back door of the workshop. Basically you have
to have them purged and IIRC certified, all of which gets horribly
expensive to get rid of something which is basically worthless.
All of which reminds me of a notice at our local tip a while back
"We do not except (sic) tyres and batteries"
--
hugh
Reply to address is valid at the time of posting

"hugh" <hugh@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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> With great difficulty. When I was involved in LPG conversions we had a
> stack of them outside the back door of the workshop. Basically you have
> to have them purged and IIRC certified, all of which gets horribly
> expensive to get rid of something which is basically worthless.

It keeps the purgers and certificators in beer and smokes though ..... and
keeps the Environment Agency and H&S hand-wringers on track for their
pensions.

Steve

>It keeps the purgers and certificators in beer and smokes though ..... and
>keeps the Environment Agency and H&S hand-wringers on track for their
>pensions.
>
>Steve

It also helps to keep pollutants out of landfill sites and, by
implication, out of the soil and water table.

There's much worse going into landfill however, so it's the tip of an
iceberg.


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70

My Landies? http://www.seriesii.co.uk
Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com
Tony Luckwill web archive at http://www.luckwill.com

Tim Hobbs wrote:
>>It keeps the purgers and certificators in beer and smokes though ..... and
>>keeps the Environment Agency and H&S hand-wringers on track for their
>>pensions.
>>
>>Steve
>
>
> It also helps to keep pollutants out of landfill sites and, by
> implication, out of the soil and water table.
>

Funny though, things used to get recycled better before the daft
legislation than after - things like car batteries, which are amazingly
re-cyclable aren't accepted by many scrappies now.

Steve

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:51:40 +0100, Steve Taylor
<[email protected]> wrote:

>legislation than after - things like car batteries, which are amazingly
>re-cyclable aren't accepted by many scrappies now.

They still are amazingly recyclable, i's just that the traditional
method of giving a school leaver a pair of wellies and a hammer to
break them open at the bottom of the yard (you know the bit next to
the wiring loom copper recycling bonfire) is not now considered
environmentally acceptable.

AJH

>Funny though, things used to get recycled better before the daft
>legislation than after - things like car batteries, which are amazingly
>re-cyclable aren't accepted by many scrappies now.
>
>Steve

Quite a lot going on with battery recycling at the moment...

http://www.letsrecycle.com/equipment/batteries.jsp#top

Lead-acids aren't the problem - most are recycled already. It's the
ni-cads etc which are the problem.



--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70

My Landies? http://www.seriesii.co.uk
Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com
Tony Luckwill web archive at http://www.luckwill.com

[email protected] wrote:

> They still are amazingly recyclable, i's just that the traditional
> method of giving a school leaver a pair of wellies and a hammer to
> break them open at the bottom of the yard (you know the bit next to
> the wiring loom copper recycling bonfire) is not now considered
> environmentally acceptable.

So who is accepting them ? There is no-one round here.

Steve

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:20:33 +0100, Steve Taylor
<[email protected]> wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
>
>> They still are amazingly recyclable, i's just that the traditional
>> method of giving a school leaver a pair of wellies and a hammer to
>> break them open at the bottom of the yard (you know the bit next to
>> the wiring loom copper recycling bonfire) is not now considered
>> environmentally acceptable.
>
>So who is accepting them ? There is no-one round here.
>
>Steve

Where are you? Your local dumpit should have a facility for them.

If you are a business user you probably need to talk to a specialist
waste handling company - do a google for 'envirogreen', but there are
lots of other people doing it.


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70

My Landies? http://www.seriesii.co.uk
Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com
Tony Luckwill web archive at http://www.luckwill.com

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:41:55 +0100, Tim Hobbs
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Where are you? Your local dumpit should have a facility for them.

Yes our local civic amenity waste transfer station accepts them as
"household" waste.

AJH

Tim Hobbs wrote:

> Where are you? Your local dumpit should have a facility for them.
>

North Manchester ?

Steve