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Fuel tanks being made
« on: September 18, 2022, 01:43:16 AM »
Interesting vid on fuel tanks being made https://youtu.be/iWwlCrGa6Ts
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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2022, 04:28:57 AM »
That was very good thank you, John A :grin: :thumb:
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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2022, 05:02:26 AM »
Absorbing video thanks.
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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2022, 08:26:24 AM »
Been There, done that.  My family had a machine shop that we slowly grew into a custom metal manufacturing plant.  We made field equipment for the military and replacement parts for old military vehicles.  We built all the tooling in house and then ran it in our own machines to make fuel tanks for 151 Jeeps, big trucks, helicopters, boats.  We built the tooling and ran it to for air handlers heat exchanger used in submarines and the space shuttle.  Along with water heaters, tent heaters, tent frames, storage cabinets and a lot of stuff the DoD did not need but bought anyway.  I did everyone of those operations and more. 

Watching the guy put the small parts in the hydraulic press made me look for the tip of my finger that is missing form my finger being out of time with my foot on the peddle.

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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2022, 11:26:30 AM »
Great video.  Reminds me of the world I grew up in!

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I'm an industrial mechanic in a large manufacturing facility in canada.  The safety has gotten so out of control we worry we will be the safest company that ever went out of business.  We spend hours in meetings or reengineering equipment because someone "doesn't feel safe " .  Equipment that has not hurt anyone in 35 years. People can't even use a pair if scissors anymore.  Much respect to the workers in these videos.  They respect the machine and understand you" don't run with scissors"

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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2022, 11:48:28 AM »
I bought a tank from india for my R69. Everyone warned it would be crap.
Not true. There were a few minor fit up faults, but nothing I couldn't tune with a rubber hammer and drill.
But I can see why it is a crap shoot.
The front mount on mine need a little reaming to line up the bolt, and the tunnel was ballooned a little, probably from one of those tosses.

But to produce a Painted and Striped tank for a 60 year old motorcycle for $440 was amazing.

Another guy on the vintage bmw site bought an un-painted tank for an R68. He had a problem with internal rust and mis-aligned fit up, bad enough I thought he should request a refund.

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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2022, 01:41:31 PM »
That was interesting.  Thanks  :thumb:
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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2022, 02:10:50 PM »
Very fun video to watch -

"Watching the guy put the small parts in the hydraulic press made me look for the tip of my finger that is missing form my finger being out of time with my foot on the peddle. "

"I'm an industrial mechanic in a large manufacturing facility in canada.  The safety has gotten so out of control we worry we will be the safest company that ever went out of business.  We spend hours in meetings or reengineering equipment because someone "doesn't feel safe " .  Equipment that has not hurt anyone in 35 years."

Risk and opportunity.

Circa 1984, I worked in a then-new shop that made underwater electrical connector assemblies by various processes. Transfer rubber molding being one, I was putting a heated mold into a hot press that was designed to only activate when both hands were in switchboxes outside the crush zone. Something malfunctioned (solenoid?) and the ram came up and pinned my gloved hand between the cantilevered mold and the press platen.

Got lucky, 5,000 PSI and a few hundred degrees with a cheap work glove, but the malfunction reversed in several seconds and opened the machine. Bruising and first degree burns - management opted not to add another layer of safety to the device because they couldn't replicate it and it would cost a couple hundred dollars to do anything.

After I left that shop for a QA path, another fellow was loading rubber into a machine and bumped a lever with his knee and the ram came down and took part of his finger off.
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Re: Fuel tanks being made
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2022, 05:43:37 PM »

Watching the guy put the small parts in the hydraulic press made me look for the tip of my finger that is missing form my finger being out of time with my foot on the peddle.

That was my first thought John. Our Occupational Safety and Heath dept. here would have a field day right there.
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