On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:25:35 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Its a bent flex shaft. Shrug...I have no need of an industrial string
trimmer, there is so little vegitation here that Ive managed for years
with a B&D electric trimmer, but the cord is a pain in the ass to deal
with over long distances and getting hung in the cactus.

Ive another gas trimmer, a Mitsubishi...chuckle but finding a new gas
tank for it..is impossible.

No, it's just a challenge. Adapt, Improvise, Overcome.

For the "Less Fab Time" option, an anodized aluminum quart fuel
bottle for a backpacking stove. Get an extra cap and drill a hole for
the fuel pickup hose, epoxy in a chink of brass tubing, all you need
to fab are the mounting straps.

Or weld up your own tank from a chunk of large thin-wall tubing and
weld plugs on the ends & mount tabs to bolt it to the trimmer. Gas
Cap would be a brass garden hose cap and gasket. For the fill neck
you weld a 3/4" NPT tank bung to the tank, then screw in a brass 3/4"
NPT Male to 3/4" GHT Male adapter, and a good coating of Permatex #2
on the threads.

Of course, you know about the weighted gas pickup hose dongle trick
- a round or square plate and gasket, three or four holes on the
perimeter for 6/32 screws to clamp it down to the tank body, with a
chunk of tube brazed in a hole for the double barb - inside end for
the pickup and outside for the fuel line.

Goop the screws and gasket with a bit of the Permatex #2.

You could use this pickup plate trick on the campstove bottle if you
curve it to match the bottle wall OD, and put Rivnuts in the tank wall
for the screws.

-- Bruce --