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Default Cutting up old galvanised water tanks

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:18:26 -0800 (PST), Onetap wrote:

On 25 Jan, 14:25, Grimly Curmudgeon
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It'd need to be some sort of **** to use an angle grinder on steel, in a
dry dusty loft space.


Yes, absolutely.

I couldn't believe that was suggested the first time around and now
it's been wheeled out for another airing. Many plumbers can't get
insurance cover for soldering in lofts because the incidents of whole-
house conflagration are innumerable.

I wouldn't be seen dead using an angle grinder on a tank in a loft, so
to speak.

A cheapo Black and Decker jigsaw and a packet of blades reduced mine
to manageable segments; cut into 4 parts I seem to recall.
The rivetted construction looks like armour plate but they are less
formidable than they look.


Might well get away with 1 cut along the centreline.

Now that I've got a hatch big enough to take a tank, I want to leave mine
in - being plastic, it's a good 'box'.
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