Norwesco 1100 Gallon Above Ground Specialty Sphere Tank in White

A sphere on a shelf of cylinders

The family is the argument here, and the family is not shaped like this record. Every sibling Norwesco names on this sheet is a conventional body: 40108 and N-40108 are the same 1100 gallon tank in an 87 by 87 by 53 inch shell at 210 lb, spelled twice on the sibling list and sold once; 43223 is 1050 gallons in a 48 by 48 by 134 inch column at 249 lb; N-44969 is 1295 gallons in an 84 by 84 by 64 inch body at 250 lb. This record holds 1100 gallons in 78 inches of width and 86 inches of height at 288 lb.

Set those four outlines next to each other and the choice makes itself on the ground you have. The 87 by 53 inch sibling is the low wide option at nearly the same volume: more floor, far less height, thirty fewer pounds of shell. The 48 inch column is the opposite trade, giving up half a foot of diameter in exchange for over eleven feet of height. This record sits between them at 78 inches across and 86 inches tall, which is the shape that fits a bay with an ordinary door height and a footprint that is not a room's worth of floor. It is also the heaviest empty shell of the four.

Work out whether 1100 gallons is your number first with the tank sizing calculator and the tank sizing guide, and if you are weighing this against the conventional 1100 gallon bodies, our two buyer's guides on that shelf are the detail: the first complete guide to the 87 by 53 inch natural white body and its companion guide to the other record in that outline. The honest limitation here is one you should read before you buy: the tank type field on this record reads Vertical Tanks while the name reads Specialty Sphere, and the dimension fields are given as a length, a width, a height and a diameter figure rather than as a sphere geometry. We print the fields. We do not translate them into a curve.

The siblings, and the one that is spelled twice

Four rows, not five: the sibling list names the 87 by 53 inch tank twice, once as 40108 and once as N-40108, and it is one product under two spellings. The row worth a second look is the last one. N-44969 carries almost two hundred more gallons than this record in a body 84 inches wide and 64 inches tall, which is wider and considerably shorter. If your ceiling is the binding constraint and your floor is not, that row beats this one on both counts. If the doorway is the constraint, 78 inches of width is the number that gets this record through and the 84 and 87 inch rows stopped.

Still deciding between these? Freight to your ZIP often settles it; the wider tanks ship differently. Or call 866-418-1777 and we will walk the table with you.

One opening, and what the sheet does not say about the air

Opening

16 inches. The manway field and the lid size field both read 16", and this is the only opening the record describes.

Outlet field

Empty. There is no size, no thread, no fitting description and no position anywhere on the record.

Inlet field

Empty as well, so neither end of the plumbing is documented.

Ceiling

120 F / 48 C.

Grade figure

1.5, given as a maximum of 12.52 pounds per gallon, with 13761 lb of maximum contents against 9174 lb of water.

Warranty

A three year limited term with full replacement, as the field states it.

Notice what the opening line above does not carry. On several records in this family the manway field spells out a vent as part of the opening; on this one it reads 16" and nothing more. Air still has to enter a closed body as fast as liquid leaves it, so if the way you intend to draw this tank down would pull against a sealed lid, that is a question to settle with us at order time rather than an assumption to make from a field that is silent. We are not going to describe a vent this record does not describe, and we are not going to tell you it lacks one.

The install specific for a 78 inch wide body with a single 16 inch opening near the top: decide now how a person will reach that opening on a tank 86 inches tall whose sides curve away from them. There is no ladder point on this record and no platform, and the top of a curved shell is not a place to improvise footing. A short fixed platform beside the tank, set while the area is still clear, costs less than the first attempt to do it the other way.

1100 gallons inside a 78 inch outline

The record in full: 1100 gallons, white polyethylene, 78 inches long, 78 inches wide, 86 inches tall with a 78 inch diameter figure, 288 lb empty and 288 lb shipping, crated at 78 by 78 by 86 inches, one 16 inch opening, blank outlet and inlet fields, a 1.5 specific gravity figure given as 12.52 pounds per gallon, 9174 lb of water at 8.34 pounds per gallon, 13761 lb of maximum contents, a 120 F / 48 C ceiling, a three year limited replacement warranty term, LTL and NMFC 156600-01, released from Hanford, California. There is no application field on this record and no contents field.

The number that does the most work on this sheet is 288 lb against 1100 gallons, because it tells you what the first day looks like. An empty shell a small crew can move with a strap and a bit of care becomes 9174 lb of water the moment it is commissioned, and everything under it has to have been decided while it was still the light version. Level, full contact, and flat across the whole footprint, checked in two directions before anything is filled. Our article on sizing a concrete pad for an above ground polyethylene tank is the piece to read before anyone orders concrete, and the reservoir design and cold weather piece is worth the time for any remote site that freezes.

288 lb out of Hanford on an LTL bill

One plant releases this record, Hanford, California, and the ships-from field is blank, so the lane starts in one place and there is no second origin to ask about. It moves LTL under NMFC 156600-01 at 288 lb, crated at the body size, and the freight class field originally read 500 before the served spec replaced it with the mode.

Receive it on its blocking. A body 78 inches wide and 86 inches tall with a curved outline does not sit flat on a trailer deck by itself; it rides in or on something that holds it still, and the first thing to look at is that arrangement rather than the tank. Before a strap is cut, check that the blocking is intact and that the shell has not been working against a corner of it for the whole lane, because a shape with no flat side concentrates its own weight wherever the packaging let it. Then plan the lift with the 78 inch width in mind, not the 288 lb weight: this is a light object that is awkward, and awkward is what drops things.

Price the move for yourself with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Keep the paperwork that names 44347 with the site file, because on a shape this unusual the part number is the fastest way to find the right sheet again in three years. Write the outlet fitting size and material on the site plan; the replacement is ordered by those two words.