Norwesco 1025 Gallon Black Horizontal Leg Tank

A record that stands on its own page with no relatives beside it

Every other black leg tank in this range arrives with a family list attached to it: the same shell in another colour, the capacity above, the capacity below, sometimes four part numbers in one set of dimensions. 40089B arrives with none. The sibling section of this record is empty. That is not a small detail on a catalogue this large, and it is the first thing an honest page about this tank has to say.

What it means in practice is that this record has to be judged on its own cells rather than by comparison, so here they are without a table to lean on. One thousand and twenty-five gallons. A body 139 inches long, which is eleven feet seven inches, in a 49 inch width and a 54 inch height. Three hundred and nine pounds empty and the same figure again on the shipping line. A grade cell of 1.5. A 2 inch bulkhead and a 16 inch vented lid. That is the whole record, and it is enough to plan a bay around, because the length and the cross-section are what decide whether a tank fits.

The honest limitation sits in the same emptiness. Because the sheet gives no relatives, there is no row to check this one against and no near-identical part number whose cells could confirm or contradict it. If you want to know how this body compares with another 1025 gallon record, that is a question for us and the factory rather than a question this page can answer from the paper in front of it. Ask, and we will put it in writing before anything is ordered.

The grade cell is filled in and the maximum contents cell is not

This is the most important paragraph on the page, so it is near the top rather than left to the bottom. The grade cell on 40089B reads 1.5. The maximum contents cell, which on almost every neighbouring record carries a figure in pounds, is blank here. The sheet gives the water figure, 8548 lb at 8.34 pounds per gallon, and then stops.

We are not going to work the missing figure out for you. Deriving a number and printing it as though the maker had published it is exactly the way a wrong specification gets into a job file and stays there, and a blank cell is a blank cell. What we will do is say plainly what the record supports on its own terms, which is water, and treat anything with more mass per gallon than water as a question to be answered by the factory in writing before the order is placed. Send us the part number and the intended contents and that is a short conversation, not a long one.

Around that, the published limits are straightforward: the service ceiling is 120 F / 48 C, the warranty cell reads 3 Year Warranty, and no product application text and no NMFC code appear anywhere on the row. If the volume itself is still open, the tank sizing calculator will turn a daily draw into gallons and the sizing guide explains why the answer rounds the way it does.

Two openings, and only one of them moves air

• The vented lid. A 16 inch threaded vented manway in the top of the shell. It is the only air path the record publishes, and there is no separate vent fitting, breather or screened port named anywhere else on the sheet.
• The bulkhead. A 2 inch PP female NPT bulkhead fitting. Polypropylene body, female national pipe thread, through the wall. It is the only port on the record.
• The blanks. No inlet, no lid-size figure, no structural detail. Three empty cells, printed here as empty rather than filled in from somewhere else.

The air path is the one to think about on a body this long. A 139 inch tank that is filled or drawn by a pump will move a great deal of air through a single vented lid in a short time, and this record carries no figure that would tell you how much it can move. Gravity fill and gravity draw do not raise the question at all. A pump on either end raises it immediately, and the right time to raise it is while the pipework is still a drawing.

The install specific follows from the length rather than the fittings: eleven feet seven inches of shell wants support along its whole run, not at the two ends. A long body carried at its extremities with a gap under the middle is loaded in the one way polyethylene handles worst, and a full tank will show you that slowly rather than suddenly. Get the bearing surface continuous before the first fill, and look under it again once it has been full for a week.

What sits around it in the range, and what the sheet does not say

There is no family table on this page because there is no family list on this record, and putting one together out of tanks the sheet does not name would be an invention rather than a description. That is worth being direct about: on a page like this the absence is the fact.

What the range does contain, and what we can talk you through by phone or by email rather than by table, is a run of black leg bodies in this same 49 inch width from a few hundred gallons upward, and a set of alternative shapes that reach a similar capacity in a shorter, wider body. Which of those is right depends almost entirely on the dimension your site cannot change. If the length is free and the width is not, the 49 inch family is the one to be in and this record is one of the larger members of it. If the length is the binding constraint, the conversation is about a different shape altogether.

Our note on how Norwesco divides its applicator bodies from its leg tanks and what the scope of each range covers is the best single background piece on where this body sits in the maker's own catalogue. If the tank is going to stand part full between jobs, read our article on the layers a standing blend forms on its own, and the field checks that catch one before the load goes out as well, because a long shell gives a settled load a lot of quiet room to sort itself out in. If what you actually want is something lower to the ground, our write-up on the low loaf-style utility bodies and how working fleets categorise them is the comparison to make before you commit to 54 inches of height.

Six towns on the plant list and an empty ships-from cell

Six plants carry 40089B: St. Bonifacius in Minnesota, Lancaster in Ohio, Griffin in Georgia, Shawnee in Oklahoma, Tooele in Utah and Owego in New York. That is a wide spread and it usually means a short lane to wherever you are. The ships-from cell, which on most records in this family names a set of states, is empty on this one, so the plant list is the only origin information the sheet gives. The mode is LTL and the freight class is 300, which fits a 309 lb tank in a 139 by 49 by 54 inch envelope: very light for the room it takes on a deck. Price the lane with your ZIP in the freight cost estimator before you commit to a date; the listed price is before freight.

Because this record publishes no maximum contents figure, make the receiving check a documentary one. Whatever paperwork arrives strapped to the tank or in the envelope with the bill goes straight into the job file the day it lands, before it is unfolded, read and left on a seat. On a sheet with a blank cell in it, the maker's own paper that comes with the tank is the most authoritative thing you will ever have about that cell, and it is the one document nobody can produce two years later.

Then paint the date of the first fill somewhere you will see it from the walkway. Keep the delivery paperwork with the tank; the serial number on the shell is what a warranty claim starts from.