On 1/14/2012 8:42 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:55:38 -0600,
wrote:

I am making aluminum tanks for my truck's radiator. I am planning on
using 1/8" thick sheet because the reason that none of the plastic tanks
hold up is that they flex and distort.

Not what you're asking about, but do you guys think it would work to
get a plastic replacement and wrap it with fibreglass/ epoxy body
material to reinforce it before putting it into service?

RWL

I think you'd have to use solvent on it and add more of the same kind of
the original plastic... and I dunno what that is.


Internal stays like a steam boiler?

jsw



Now this is an interesting idea.... but I think the inside walls taper
slightly, so I don't see it being workable. If the walls were
perpendicular to each other, I'd consider this a lot more.

It would still involve cutting the crimped-together radiator apart and
clamping it back together however... and at some point, one begins to
see that it would be simpler overall to just weld some aluminum tanks.